Children's Mental Health Services

Kern County’s Children’s Mental Health System of Care has built a network of community-based mental health services so children and families can more easily reach professionals to help them with mental health and substance abuse problems. Children and adolescents who are seriously emotionally disturbed and have or are eligible for Medi-Cal or Healthy Families Insurance coverage are eligible for county mental health services. Kern County children's mental health services are provided right in your community at schools, clinics and homes.

These services include:

  • Individual, family and group counseling
  • Social skills groups
  • Medication for psychological problems
  • Information and referral for support services

If you live in: Your provider is: Telephone:
Delano, McFarland Child Guidance Clinic 661.725.1042
Shafter, Lost Hills, Buttonwillow, Wasco, Semitropic Kern County Mental Health

661.758.7300
Taft Kern County Mental Health

661.765.4853
West Bakersfield Child Guidance Clinic

661.327.0933

North Bakersfield Kern County Mental Health

661.868.6750
Lake Isabella, Kern Mountain College Community Services

760.379.3412
Ridgecrest College Community Services

760.499.7406
California City College Community Services

760.373.2979

Tehachapi College Community Services

661.822.8223
Rosamond College Community Services

661.256.7208
Arvin, Lamont, Frazier Park Clinica Sierra Vista

661.845.5100

Central Bakersfield Child Guidance Clinic

661.322.1021
East Bakersfield Kern County Mental Health

661.868.6750

Additional children's programs include:

  • AB2726 - Mental health, case management and social skills training for special education students. Children’s Specialty Services – Serves children and teens who have been sexually abused as well as juvenile sex offenders.
  • MIST- A multi-agency collaborative team that works to stabilize families with home, school and placement interventions to help strengthen and preserve the family.
  • TBS – Therapeutic Behavioral Health services are 24/7 services provided on a short-term basis to eligible minors.
  • Wraparound – Individual, one-on-one, family-centered and crisis response services available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

For additional information regarding Children’s programs, please call 661.868.6721.

RESOURCES

ORGANIZATIONS

    Local
  • H.E.A.R.T.S Connection
     Meetings are held monthly throughout Kern County for family members and friends. Meetings provide information on organizations and services and opportunities to meet other families to share joys, challenges and information. For more information, please call 661.328.9055.
  • HelpLine
     HelpLine is a comprehensive computerized information and referral service designed to link people in need with the appropriate community and human services. If you need help finding a community resource for health care, jobs, counseling, or housing, or need to locate services for children, seniors or persons with disabilities, please call 661.336.5200 or 1.800.273.2275
  • Kern County Department of Human Services
    A service related organization providing aid and services to the children and adults of Kern County including financial and medical aid, food and employment assistance and child welfare services including foster placement, adoption and family reunification.
  • Parents for Children
     Support/educational group for parents of children diagnosed with ADHD, childhood schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, OCD and other brain disorders. For more information, please call 661.868.8339 or 661.873.1828


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