Mental Health Care in Sacramento, CA

River Oak Center for Children

What Does River Oak Center for Children Offer?

River Oak Center for Children is a mental health facility at 5445 Laurel Hills Drive, Sacramento, California, offering outpatient care and telehealth therapy. It accepts Medicaid and state-financed insurance. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT and couples and family therapy.

5445 Laurel Hills Drive
Sacramento, CA 95841

Listed in SAMHSA's FindTreatment.gov, checked October 2026. A listing is not an endorsement. Call to confirm services, openings and costs before you go.

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Types of Care at River Oak Center for Children

  • Outpatient

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • County or local government funds
  • Medicaid
  • State corrections or juvenile justice funds
  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
  • State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
  • State welfare or child and family services funds

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

  • Activity therapy
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Couples/family therapy
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale

Who the Program Serves

  • Young adults
  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • Persons with eating disorders
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
  • Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
  • Ages: Children/Adolescents
  • Ages: Young Adults

Language Services

  • Spanish
  • Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Other languages (excluding Spanish)
  • Any Chinese Language
  • Hindi
  • Hmong
  • Russian
  • Tagalog
  • Vietnamese

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Housing services
  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Psychosocial rehabilitation services
  • Case management service
  • Suicide prevention services

Before you commit, confirm openings, costs and the program's state license. How to find a therapist you can afford lists the questions to ask when you call, and mental health care in California lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Other Mental Health Facilities Near River Oak Center for Children

Measured by straight-line distance from this facility. See every listing on the Sacramento mental health care page.

Heritage Oaks Hospital, Sacramento

4250 Auburn Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95841 · 1.9 mi

916-489-3336

  • Outpatient care
  • Telehealth therapy
  • Partial hospitalization
  • Hospital inpatient care
  • CBT
  • DBT
  • couples and family therapy
  • Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • Private insurance
  • Sliding fee
  • Payment help
  • Walk-in crisis

Sources

  1. SAMHSA FindTreatment.gov listing data, checked October 2026
  2. About FindTreatment.gov (SAMHSA)

In crisis? Call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org, any time. If someone is in immediate danger, call 911. anxiety.help is an independent guide, not a mental health provider or crisis service, and doesn't give medical advice. For a free, confidential referral, call SAMHSA's National Helpline at 1-800-662-4357.