Orange County
Mental Health Services in Orange County
Mental Health Clinics Kinship Center offers specialty mental health and counseling services to children and families touched by adoption, foster care, relative caregiving, or legal guardianship. To be eligible for these programs, a child must have Orange County Medi-Cal or be eligible as part of the Adoption Assistance Program (AAP). A child adopted from a county other than Orange County may be served at the clinic if the County of origin agrees to the host county providing services. A child may have been already permanently placed/adopted or adoption is being considered as part of the child’s permanency plan. In addition, a child may be living with relative caregivers or legal guardians. Services are provided in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
Early Intervention Program (Seedling Project) The Seedling Project of Kinship Center is an Early Intervention Program working toward decreasing children’s developmental delays, increasing stability in their lives, and supporting foster/adoptive children and those living with relative caregivers entering school ready to learn. The program assists children ages 0-6, who receive periodic developmental and behavioral screenings. Additional services offered are in-home coaching, psychological testing, occupational therapy evaluations, and parent education.
Mental Health Clinic Children referred to Kinship Center’s Children and Family Services are those adopted (or placed for adoption) through other California counties or other states, adopted as infants domestically or adopted internationally. Services include individual and family counseling, psychological testing, and medication support. Other clients include adult adoptees, foster and adoptive parents, siblings and birth families. This is a fee-for-service program. |
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