Since last year’s Changing Lives event…
StarVista’s once-a-year fundraising event celebrating our agency’s accomplishments and community of supporters.
We would like to share a big thank you to all who attended Changing Lives 2023. It was an incredible night full of empowerment, inspiration, and strength.
A special thanks to you, our Sponsors, donors, Visionaries, speakers, staff, volunteers, interns, and supporters. Together, we are helping 40,000 people of all ages change their lives for the better.
StarVista’s First Chance Sobering Station is a 24-hour program that serves as an alternative to jail for persons arrested for driving under the influence or public intoxication and welcomes individuals in a crisis or non-crisis situation that are not under the influence.
Since the last Changing Lives event, more than 1500 clients recovered from their intoxication at the Sobering Station while counselors completed assessments to identify substance abuse problems in an open, non-judgmental, and empathetic manner.
StarVista’s School-Based Counseling Services program provides mental health services for students in elementary, middle, and high schools throughout San Mateo County. Services include assessment, crisis intervention, individual and group therapy, family therapy, and consultation with parents, teachers, and other school staff.
Since the last Changing Lives event, 876 total students have been provided check-in, crisis, assessments, case management, and/or individual/Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) counseling services through School Based Services programs.
Some notable stats from the subprograms:
School Based clinicians provided 828 individual therapy sessions.
Strengthen Our Youth (SOY) clinicians provided 273 individual therapy/Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) counseling sessions.
Child and Family Resource Center (CFRC) clinicians provided 2800 individual therapy sessions.
StarVista’s Women’s Enrichment Center (WEC) is designed to address the unique needs of women in recovery. With the support of the WEC community, we help clients heal from the past, become connected to their strengths and dreams, and learn the skills to live a value-driven life.
Since the last Changing Lives event, StarVista’s Women’s Enrichment Program served 63 women through group sessions, five days a week in addition to weekly individual therapy and case management services. Clients learn to manage emotions, learn new coping strategies, change negative thought and behavioral patterns, process trauma, and develop a comprehensive relapse prevention plan.
StarVista’s Child and Parent Services (CAPS) is available to any family with a child 0-17 living in Redwood City, East Palo Alto, San Mateo, Half Moon Bay, Montara, El Granada, Moss Beach, San Bruno, South San Francisco, and Daly City. The focus of the program is reducing caregiver stress through a strength-based and short-term approach. CAPS is also available to any child 0-17 that has experienced a crime or abuse and/or neglect that lives in San Mateo County. The program aims to provide services that will provide support to victims and their families.
Since the last Changing Lives event, StarVista’s CAPS program provided therapeutic, advocacy services for 338 children and parent education to 497 caregivers to help with the treatment of the child.
StarVista’s Insights Adolescent Treatment program is a drug and alcohol recovery program that empowers youth to take responsibility and facilitate positive, lasting change for themselves and their families.
Since the last Changing Lives event, StarVista’s Insights program served 82 clients through case management and individual, group, and family counseling to learn about anger management, relationships, mental health, communicating with parents, and more.
Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Program
StarVista’s Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Program (ECMHC) strengthens the social-emotional development and school readiness of our community’s high-risk children from birth to age five and supports low-income families and caregivers by providing mental health consultation, early intervention services, direct clinical services, and support for parents and caregivers on-site at subsidized childcare centers.
Since the last Changing Lives event, ECMHC provided consultation services to 712 children & 204 staff at 21 different childcare sites
StarVista’s Daybreak Transitional Housing program provides independent living skills training and mental health support for homeless teens aged 16-21.
Since the last Changing Lives event, the program served 15 teens for a combined stay of 2,978 nights.