Variety of child, adult and family services including individual/family and divorce counseling, court ordered counseling, parent education, anger management, domestic violence programs.

FEE: Sliding scale, private insurance, Medi-Cal, no-FEE parenting classes.

Modesto Office - Outpatient

(209) 550-5860

1700 McHenry Village Way, Suite 11B

Modesto, CA 95350

Turlock Office - ADHD & Outpatient

(209) 669-6771

2925 Niagra Street, Suite 3

Turlock, CA 95382

Individual, group and family counseling (coping skills, marriage and anger management). Teen recreation center, child care/other resource and referral, planned parenthood. Services offered in English and Spanish.

FEE: sliding scale; accept Medi-Cal for adult groups only; accepts Medi-Cal for children.

Center for Human Services - Main Office

2000 W. Briggsmore Ave., Ste. I

Modesto, CA 95350

(209) 526-1476

Student Assistance Program - Hughson High School

883-0469

Individual, group and family counseling. Culturally sensitive staff available who speak English and Spanish.

FEE: Medi-Cal and Private Pay for children from Birth to 18 years; Private Pay and Private Insurance for adults.

Modesto Office - Behavioral Health

(209) 576-1750

1620 Cummins Dr.

Modesto, CA 95358

Turlock Office - Behavioral Health

(209) 669-2583

420 East Canal Dr.

Turlock, CA 95380

United Samaritian Hughson:

209-883-9212

The United Samaritans Foundation Community Center is intended to provide a centralized location for; educational enrichment, community development, community service, learning and prevention programs, community awareness activities, family development programs, and civic or business related activities.

Interfaith Ministries Feed Modesto:

209-572-3117

Interfaith Ministries have several programs that strive to bring healthy food to all Stanislaus County residents. These programs are: Feed Modesto Pantry, Free Mobile Farmers Market, Homebound Delivery, and Last Saturday Services.

Turlock Gospel Mission:

209-656-1033

365 days-a-year our guests can find a hot meal, an encouraging word and a group of caring individuals who are eager to love and care for them. Turlock Gospel Mission offers 3 meals a day, emergency shelter, a Restoration Program, homeless assistance center, known as the HAM Center, to offer support and encouragement during the day.

Housing Authority of Stanislaus County:

209-557-2000

The Housing Authority of the County of Stanislaus, a nonprofit, public corporation, is committed to addressing the unmet housing needs of residents and communities in our county.

Stanislaus Recovery Center:

209-525-7411

Services offered at this site, include adult residential treatment, residential withdrawal management, residential and outpatient co-occurring treatment, outpatient and intensive outpatient SUD services, and recovery and aftercare services.

Alateen/Alanon:

(888) 425-2666

A Northern California Hotline for 12-20-year old’s, The Al-Anon program is based on 12 Steps adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous which we apply to our lives, one day at a time.

Although a separate entity, we cooperate with AA, and consider it an important resource for understanding alcoholism. In the spirit of cooperation rather than affiliation, here is the website of Alcoholic Anonymous World Service, Inc.

GoZen! creates online social and emotional learning programs loved by kids ages 5-15, parents, professionals, and schools. Our mission is to reach 1 million kids with skills to transform stress, anxiety, worry, anger, perfectionism, negativity, and social worry into POWER in the year 2020! We don’t help kids manage challenging feelings, we help them transformthem into confidence, courage, and resilience! We’re basically emotional alchemists.

CDC’s COVID-19 Parental Resource Kit: Ensuring Children and Young People’s Social, Emotional, and Mental Well-being can help support parents, caregivers, and other adults serving children and young people in recognizing children and young people’s social, emotional, and mental challenges and helping to ensure their well-being.

Kids in the House gives parents and educators the chance to get answers to their tough questions and get first-hand tips on how to deal with particular challenges ranging from pregnancy to getting into college. The website is also customizable, allowing users to create playlists of their favorite videos and interact with other users and parents who may have dealt with similar issues. Kids in the House understands that there is a variety of parenting techniques and that there is no one-size-fits-all solution to raising a family. This resource contains over 9,000 videos from 500 leading parenting experts, including doctors, pediatricians, psychologists, educators, best-selling authors, celebrities, and parents themselves.

Are you, like milllions of Americans, caught in the happiness trap? Russ Harris explains that the way most of us go about trying to find happiness ends up making us miserable, driving the epidemics of stress, anxiety, and depression. This empowering book presents the insights and practical techniques of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) a revolutionary new psychotherapy based on cutting-edge research in behavioral psychology. By clarifying your values and developing mindfulness (a technique for living fully in the present moment), ACT helps you escape the happiness trap and find true satisfaction in life. This book provides these practical techniques that can be implimented in everyday life and with almost any age.

A practical book by Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson offer a revolutionary approach to child rearing with twelve key strategies that foster healthy brain development, leading to calmer, happier children. The authors explain—and make accessible—the new science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures. The “upstairs brain,” which makes decisions and balances emotions, is under construction until the mid-twenties. And especially in young children, the right brain and its emotions tend to rule over the logic of the left brain. No wonder kids throw tantrums, fight, or sulk in silence. By applying these discoveries to everyday parenting, you can turn any outburst, argument, or fear into a chance to integrate your child’s brain and foster vital growth.

Is vulnerability the same as weakness? “In our culture,” teaches Dr. Brené Brown, “we associate vulnerability with emotions we want to avoid such as fear, shame, and uncertainty. Yet we too often lose sight of the fact that vulnerability is also the birthplace of joy, belonging, creativity, authenticity, and love.” On The Power of Vulnerability, Dr. Brown offers an invitation and a promise - that when we dare to drop the armor that protects us from feeling vulnerable, we open ourselves to the experiences that bring purpose and meaning to our lives. Here she dispels the cultural myth that vulnerability is weakness and reveals that it is, in truth, our most accurate measure of courage. This is an educational and thought prevoking audiobook.

More and more, psychologists are turning away from an emphasis on self-esteem and moving toward self-compassion in the treatment of their patients—and Dr. Neff’s extraordinary book offers exercises and action plans for dealing with every emotionally debilitating struggle, be it parenting, weight loss, or any of the numerous trials of everyday living.

What if you could escape traps like these and live a fuller, richer, happier life? This isn't mere speculation but the result of twenty-five years of careful hands-on clinical work by Daniel J. Siegel. Using case histories from his practice, he shows how, by following the proper steps, nearly everyone can learn how to focus their attention on the internal world of the mind in a way that will literally change the wiring and architecture of their brain.

SocialJusticeBooks.org is a project of Teaching for Change, a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide teachers and parents with the tools to create schools where students learn to read, write and change the world. SocialJusticeBooks.org was developed in 2017 to identify and promote the best multicultural and social justice children’s books, as well as articles and books for educators. It builds on the tradition of the Council on Interracial Books for Children which provided a social justice lens to reviews of children’s literature.

SocialJusticeBooks.org examines the representation, the story line, and the quality of writing of each book. It is not enough to simply diversify the characters in children’s literature. We are also concerned with who is writing the stories, what the characters are doing, how issues of power and activism are introduced, and representations of people in community rather than in isolation.