Casa Pacifica Centers for Children and Families is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit corporation incorporated in 1988. Serving California’s Central Coast, we opened our doors in 1994.
Children/youth are referred to one of Casa Pacifica’s programs by county agencies (Child Protective Services and/or Mental Health) schools, and community based organizations. The general public can access our mobile crisis response teams by calling the hot line numbers: Ventura - (866) 431-2478 or Santa Barbara - (888) 334-2777.
The majority of the children we serve have been removed from their homes by Child Protective Services due to neglect, abuse, abandonment or being at-risk of these conditions.
Two “bed based” programs provide 24-hour services on campus – a 45-bed emergency shelter care program for children ages infant through 18 and a 28-bed residential treatment program for children and youth ages 11 to 18 requiring intensive services in an “out-of-home” setting.
In addition to children/youth in the residential treatment program, 40 day students referred by public schools attend Casa Pacifica’s non-public school each day.
Community-based programs provide services in homes, neighborhoods, and schools. We help mobilize natural supports to assist the family and provide targeted behavioral interventions for children in jeopardy of removal from home.
Our mobile crisis response teams – one in Ventura County and one in Santa Barbara County – handle about 100 calls a week.
Community services work with 350 children and families daily – in their own homes and schools from Santa Maria to Santa Paula to Simi Valley.
In 2010-11 we served more than 3,500 children and their families in all programs combined.
We admit into one of our programs a child every three hours.
In the past year, 88% of children and youth successfully completed the program in which they were enrolled – 87% of clients on campus were discharged to a lower level of care.
The 2011-12 budget stands at $26,000,000.
Public sector funding does not cover the costs of services – especially services delivered on campus.
We rely more and more on private contributions and special events to bridge the “margin of care” at $33 per day per child – close to $3 million in private funds to maintain the quality level of care we provide.
One of the most notable medical advances of the 21st century may be the application of Information Technology to health care. Use of electronic health records improves quality, contains cost, assures client safety, provides real-time access to clinical information, and increases productivity which results in serving more youth and families. Our Electronic Health Record allows us to gather, evaluate and use critical treatment and service information to increase consumer confidence, provide accountability to our service recipients and governing board, and to ensure compliance to County, State, and Federal regulation. The vendor of our Electronic Health Record, Netsmart Technologies, was the very first behavioral healthcare software provider to offer national certification making our agency remain current in the fast-paced changing technology requirements and also allowing Casa Pacifica to be eligible for continued federal funding in accordance with ARRA.
