Expansion moving forward

May 4, 2010

BACA has now procured two more offices, has hired our 4th Child Psychiatrist (to start this summer) and may have more Stanford Child Psychiatry Fellows practicing at our agency.  In addition, we will begin to help train MFT interns (Master’s level therapists doing their internships) in the coming  months.  This will mean increased access to care for families in the Bay Area.  In addition, some progress has been made with insurance acceptance, which will also help provide much needed in-network mental health care for children and families.  Currently, our waiting list is still quite long, but we will have many openings beginning in June.  As we work towards the goal of “curing” all of our patients, this allows us to keep taking new cases.  We truly strive to have all patients cured in 6 months.  Of course, this is not always the case, and people will never be “forced out” of treatment.   Setting goals for therapy and mental health treatment, and sticking to the latest scientific evidence regarding treatment, helps to speed our patients along the path to recovery.

We are also happy to report that we received our first grant!  We hope this is the first step in working towards procuring more funding to increase services for all members of our community.

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