Mental Health Care in Santa Maria, CA

Childrens Mental Health Services

What Does Childrens Mental Health Services Offer?

Childrens Mental Health Services is a mental health facility at 500 West Foster Road, Santa Maria, California, offering outpatient care and telehealth therapy. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, state-financed insurance and self-pay. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT and couples and family therapy. It offers walk-in psychiatric emergency services.

500 West Foster Road
Santa Maria, CA 93455

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 Childrens Mental Health Services

  • Outpatient

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • County or local government funds
  • Community Mental Health Block Grants
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Private health insurance
  • Cash or self-payment
  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
  • State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds

Crisis and Emergency Services

  • Crisis intervention team
  • Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

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

Language Services

  • Spanish

Medications Used

  • Aripiprazole
  • Olanzapine
  • Quetiapine
  • Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Housing services
  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Diet and exercise counseling
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Intensive case management
  • Psychosocial rehabilitation services
  • Supported housing
  • Therapeutic foster care
  • Vocational 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 Childrens Mental Health Services

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

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.