Mental Health Care in San Diego, CA

San Diego Center for Children

What Does San Diego Center for Children Offer?

San Diego Center for Children is a mental health facility at 3002 Armstrong Street, San Diego, California, offering outpatient care, telehealth therapy, partial hospitalization and residential care. It accepts Medicaid, private insurance, TRICARE and self-pay. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT and couples and family therapy.

3002 Armstrong Street
San Diego, CA 92111

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 San Diego Center for Children

  • Outpatient
  • Partial hospitalization/day treatment
  • Residential/24-hour residential

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • County or local government funds
  • Community Mental Health Block Grants
  • Community Service Block Grants
  • Medicaid
  • Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
  • Private health insurance
  • State education agency funds
  • Cash or self-payment

Crisis and Emergency Services

  • Psychiatric emergency onsite services

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

  • Activity therapy
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Couples/family therapy
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale

Who the Program Serves

  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
  • Ages: Children/Adolescents
  • Ages: Young Adults

Medications Used

  • Aripiprazole
  • Lurasidone
  • Olanzapine
  • Quetiapine
  • Risperidone
  • Ziprasidone
  • Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Diet and exercise counseling
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Intensive case management
  • Psychosocial rehabilitation services
  • Therapeutic foster care
  • Case management service
  • Integrated primary care services
  • Suicide prevention services
  • Education services
  • TB screening

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 San Diego Center for Children

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

Apex Recovery, San Diego

2810 Camino Del Rio South, Suite 106, San Diego, CA 92108 · 2.7 mi

619-756-6424

  • Outpatient care
  • Telehealth therapy
  • Partial hospitalization
  • CBT
  • DBT
  • EMDR
  • Medicare
  • Private insurance
  • Sliding fee
  • Payment help

Sources

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

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