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Child, Youth, and Family Services


Child, Youth, and Family Counseling

PVPSA's counseling programs help keep students and families healthy and strong. We provide quality counseling services at our main office, located at 335 East Lake Avenue and at our community counseling center at 240 East Lake Avenue to hundreds of children, youth, families and adults each year.

Common clinical issues we address include anxiety, depression, family conflicts adn grief and loss transitions. We accept Medi-Cal, private insurance and payments on a sliding fee scale. We work to make access to mental health services easy for all community members.

Our counseling staff includes licensed therapists and interns on Marriage Famaily Therapy (MFT) and Clinical Social Work (CSW) tracks, as well as youth development specialists.



Prevention

We provide education and training to help students resist drugs, alcohol, and violence:

  • Teen Pregnancy Education and Services
  • School/Community Policing Partnership
  • Teacher Trainings
  • Drug Prevention Curriculum (K-12)
  • Violence Prevention Curriculum (K-12)
  • Tobacco Prevention Curriculum (K-12)
  • Gang Prevention Education and Awareness
  • Bullying Prevention Education and Training


Substance Abuse Programs

Through the drug and alcohol counseling program at PVPSA, counselors provide cutting-edge congnitive-behavioral curricula to youth in need. PVPSA counselors run drug and alcohol groups at all the PVUSD middle and high schools, as well as at some of the alternative schools. At our PVPSA offices, the counselors offer after-school groups. Each year, counselors serve over 400 youth in our community. To access these services please contact PVPSA at 728-6445 or e-mail us at: admin@pvpsa.org.

For more detailed information, please visit our Substance Abuse page by clicking here.

 

 
335 E. Lake Ave, Watsonville, CA 95076
Phone: (831)728-6445
e-mail: admin@pvpsa.org
Our friendly bilingual staff will assist you.