Youth Service Bureaus
5-17 Mental Health YMCA
WHO WE ARE
For 45 years, the Youth Service Bureaus (YSB) have provided a continuum of services to help families address the challenges of growing up.
We are the community mental health arm of Urban Services YMCA, specializing in counseling for youth and families, crisis intervention, prevention programs for at-risk youth, parent education and support, truancy prevention, and community resources linkage services.
Youth Service Bureaus Programs:
- Clinical Based
- Diversion/Probation
- C.A.L.M
- First Stop / TRACK
- Friendship Club
- Girls United
- Juvenile Sexual Responsibility Program
- Parent Education Group Program
- School-Based Counseling
- Victim Impact Awareness Program
- School Safety Advocate/TSCS Middle School
San Francisco Youth Service Bureau
ADDRESS: 1426 Fillmore, Suite 204, San Francisco, CA 94115
PHONE: (650) 877 – 8642
Pacifica Youth Service Bureau
ADDRESS: 435 Edgemar Ave., Pacifica, CA 94044
PHONE: (650) 877 – 8642
South San Francisco Youth Service Bureau
ADDRESS: 1486 Huntington Ave., Suite 100, South San Francisco, CA 94080
PHONE: (650) 877 – 8642
San Mateo Youth Service Bureau
ADDRESS: 1650 So. Amphlett Blvd., Suite 115, San Mateo, CA 94402
PHONE: (650) 877 – 8642
WHO WE SERVE AND WHAT WE DO
We work in over 50 schools across San Mateo and San Francisco counties providing on-site counseling and assessment, crisis intervention, on-campus violence prevention, and adolescent life skills/support groups. In San Francisco we work throughout the city on school campuses with permanent services offered in 11 of those sites.
We work as a therapeutic partnership with the San Mateo Department of Probation providing diversion counseling for first-time juvenile offenders, alternatives to incarceration and re-entry programs for youth in the juvenile justice system. In San Francisco we offer intensive clinical case management for probation-involved youth.
We are a clinical training center for Trainees and Interns working toward licensure in their professional fields of Social Work and Marriage & Family Therapy. Annually we train more than 25 graduate students.
Traineeship Program
The Youth Service Bureau Training Program has been in existence for over 30 years. We offer an intensive training program that helps support, nurture and train new therapists.
- Flexible school-based hours on site within San Francisco elementary and middle schools in a friendly atmosphere.
- Training in diagnosis, Medi-Cal documentation and billing, treatment planning and administering comprehensive strengths-based psychosocial assessments
- Stellar supervision and training. Group and individual supervision are conducted weekly as are trainings which vary in topic throughout the year and become more specialized as the school year progresses.
- Opportunities for providing individual, group and family therapy.
- Trainees gain everything they need to place them in the market as an impressive contender for employment in San Francisco’s community health agencies, boasting a clinical ID with the county, a working knowledge of Medi-Cal and the city’s Avatar database, and key experience employers regularly look for.
- Complimentary gym membership at any YMCA of San Francisco.
- Traineeship commitments run yearly from mid August to mid-June. Caseloads run September through May with an opportunity to extend traineeship throughout the summer.
Our program has three components to prepare the therapist and develop/enhance their professional growth.
- Training
- Supervision
- Evaluation / Core Competencies
- Schools
- Groups
- Clinic
- TRAINING TOPICS
Presenting topics that trainees focus on in counseling:
HOW TO APPLY
To apply for a traineeship, please submit a cover letter and resume to YSB Training Team at [email protected]
Upcoming Events
Dec 26
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