Mental Health Resources

Our Subcommittee on Mental Health needs you! It is current on hiatus and needs your energy and support to continue.

Contact Kristine Kim at kriskimsuh@yahoo.com

Instagram: @mentalhealthSELPA1

If your youth is having a severe mental health crisis:
Uplift Family Services (upliftfs.org) Mobile Crisis Program provides free, 24-hour intervention to children and adolescents in Santa Clara County who are experiencing acute psychological crisis regardless of insurance status. Call Uplift Family Services’s 24-HOUR CRISIS LINE (408) 379-9085 or toll-free (877) 41-CRISIS (412-7474)
SUPPORT AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, 24/7

Crisis Text Line serves anyone, in any type of crisis, providing access to free, 24/7 support and information via the medium people already use and trust: text. Here’s how it works:

  1. Text START to 741741 from anywhere in the USA, anytime, about any type of crisis.
  2. A live, trained Crisis Counselor receives the text and responds quickly.
  3. The volunteer Crisis Counselor will help you move from a hot moment to a cool moment

The following organizations offer free initial consultations for possible mental health conditions in youth:

Bay Area Clinical Associates serves youth through age 25, takes some insurance,  and has offices in San Jose, San Mateo and Oakland. Fill out the online appointment request form at: https://www.baca.org. and someone will contact you within 48 hrs.

El Camino Hospital ASPIRE Intensive Outpatient Program offers free assessments and serves youth through age 25. ASPIRE covered by all insurance and MediCal. Call 650-940-7000 (Mountain View); 408-866-4021 (Los Gatos)

Children’s Health Council serves youth up to age 17 and offers free 30 minute Care Consultations. Call 650.688.3625; Español 650.688.3650