Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families

Casa Pacifica's mission is to inspire hope and nurture mental health and well-being of children, young adults, and families to realize their full potential; and our vision is of a world where all children, young adults and their families benefit from mental health services to achieve their full potential. We do this by removing the stigma related to mental health services and providing easy access to them. As the largest nonprofit provider of children/youths' mental health services in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties, our programs are organized into a full spectrum of care geared toward keeping children safe, out of trouble, and in their homes, schools and communities; helping youth and families learn strategies and skills to cope with complex mental health issues; assisting adolescents to break free from substance dependence; and preparing and supporting transitional and emancipated foster youth to become self-sufficient as they begin their independent lives in the community.

Casa Pacifica provides 14 cutting-edge, evidence-based, therapeutic (campus and community-based) programs, that include assessment, clinical/medical services, educational and residential services. Each of Casa Pacifica's programs brings together the right expertise and appropriate resources to facilitate positive changes in the lives of children and youth by building on their inherent strengths and resilience, developing healthy and vital coping and self-regulatory skills, keeping them engaged with their educations, and creating essential life and learning experiences that are critical for healthy human development. The agency serves approximately 425 children/youth daily; 2,100 children yearly, not including work with parents, foster families, group home staff, schools, and community organizations.

In addition to Casa Pacifica's beautiful campus located in the farmlands of Camarillo, the agency has three satellite offices located in Camarillo, Santa Barbara, and Santa Maria, from which community-based programs serve youth in their homes, schools, and communities. Additionally, the agency's Transitional Youth Services program maintains transitional living houses for emancipated foster youth – including semi-independent living on Casa Pacifica's campus and fully independent living in Ventura. Casa Pacifica maintains a staff of 313 employees.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS 2021-2022
• More than 47,000 children have now been admitted to one of our programs since opening in 1994.
• Casa Pacifica provided 14,555 days of care (bed days) this past fiscal year.
• Since opening in 1994 Casa Pacifica has provided nearly 550,000 days of care (bed days).
• Over ten years ago more kids were served on-campus than in the community - today one in seven kids are served
on campus.
• Of the over 425 children and youth served each day, 22% are enrolled in a campus program.
• Every 3.4 hours we admitted a child into one of our programs, on average 7 youth a day.
• Casa Pacifica worked with over 2,161 children and their families in 2,914 service episodes.
• We provided over 7,500 student days in our on-campus, special education school.
• We delivered an average of 2.4 hours of mental health services per child per week.
• Agency-wide ages of children served were: 2% under 5 years old; 12% between 6-11 years; 39% between 12-15
years; 39% between 16-18 years; and 8% between 19-24 years.
• In both our community-based and on-campus services 38% were male, 61% female, and 1% other.
• 90% of children/youth discharged from our bed-based programs moved to lower levels of care.
• 91% of children/youth enrolled throughout all our programs were successful in meeting their treatment goals.
• We handled an average of 194 crisis calls a month in Santa Barbara counties. 24% on average are handled in person.
• We delivered 51,902 hours of Mental Health Service (142 hrs./day); 684 hours of Social Service (2 hrs./day); 4,710 hours of Educational Service (13 hrs./day) - a total of 57,296 hours of services provided for the year (157 hrs./day).
• We worked with kids and families from every community in both Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties.
• Post discharge data shows 97% of clients are not psychiatrically hospitalized, 99% have not had involvement with law enforcement, 92% are still in school and 98% live in a home environment.
• We saw a 5% increase over last year in clients served by our Private Insurance outpatient services. We added Private Insurance Outpatient Services in Santa Barbara County.
• Private Insurance clients were served from Ventura County (40%), Los Angeles County (22%), Santa Barbara County (12%), Orange County (5%), San Bernadino County (5%), Riverside County (4%), Kern County (3%), San Diego County (2%), San Luis Obispo County (2%), and less than 1% in Solano, Kings, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Monterey & Sacramento Counties..
• Private Insurance programs show a success rate of 84%.