PROGRAMS AND LOCATIONS

STARS Community Services

STARS Community Services provides programs for children, adolescents, and transitional age youth (TAY) who face emotional, behavioral, and learning challenges and having difficulty succeeding in family or community living environments. A dedicated and experienced staff of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, mental health specialists, parent partners, and other counselors provide case management, mental health care, and a range of support services in schools, homes or other community settings throughout Alameda County. By facilitating a smooth transition among programs within STARS Community Services as well as among other community-based agencies, our dedicated staff helps youth and adolescents receive individualized service planning in the least restrictive setting.

STARS Community Services provides the following range of programs and services:

• Transitional Age Youth Program (TAYP) — an award-winning, outcomes-backed program for youth (ages 18-25). Based in research-backed clinical practices, these targeted therapeutic, case management and community support services help young adults remain in community living settings.
  
  
• School Success Program — case management and therapy services funded through the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment program. STARS CS provides these services at various public school sites in the Hayward, Oakland and San Lorenzo Unified School Districts.
  
  
• STARS High School (San Leandro) — innovative, nonpublic school where credentialed instructors experienced with emotionally disturbed youth develop Individual Education Plans (IEPs). By integrating comprehensive therapeutic services into an academic curriculum, adolescents can maintain and advance their educational status while receiving mental health care. Many STARS High School students pass the same standardized California High School Exit Exams in English and Math that are administered by public schools throughout the state.
  
  
• Foster Care Youth Support Program — provided to youth who have experienced serious trauma and loss. Employing a strength-based, team approach, we offer a range of therapeutic and support services to foster care youth ranging in age from 12 to 21 years.
  
  
• Day Treatment Intensive program (DTI) — multi-disciplinary treatment services that include individual therapy, family therapy and groups. DTI services are funded through Medi-Cal's Early Periodic Screening, Diagnoses and Treatment (EPSDT) program, AB 3632 funds, or County General Funds (CGF).
  
  
• Evidence-based and evidence-informed practices
  Evidence-based Practices (EBPs) are those interventions and supports that have research documenting their effectiveness. Evidence-informed practices are also research-supported but do not yet have the body of rigorous clinical evidence that distinguishes EBPs:
  
  
  • Aggression Replacement Training (ART) — a structured, psychoeducational intervention primarily for adolescents with or at-risk of aggressive/antisocial behavior. It includes three structured interventions — Skillstreaming, Anger Control Training and Moral Reasoning Training.
  • Transition to Independence (TIP) — an individualized, comprehensive system of care for TAY ages 14-25 with serious emotional/behavioral difficulties. This strengths-based approach is based on the SODAS problem-solving method (Situation, Opportunities, Disadvantages, Advantages, Advantages, Solutions).
  • Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS) — based on three empirically validated interventions that were adapted to address topics relevant to adolescents exposed to chronic trauma. Either a group or individualized intervention, SPARCS is designed for youth ages 13-21.
  • Wellness Recovery Action Plan (W.R.A.P) — a peer support process designed for youth and young adults 15+ years of age with serious and persistent mental health problems. Using a group rehabilitation curriculum, W.R.A.P offers lifetime illness management principles.

  Employee Satisfaction Survey

  Each year, all staff programs complete anonymous Employee Satisfaction Surveys. The entire management team carefully reviews survey results to identify areas where we are successful in making our agency a great place to work, as well as to identify areas for improvement. By using the same survey each year, we can measure our success and focus our efforts on continually improving our work environment.

  For a selection of results from a recent Employee Satisfaction Survey for STARS Community Services, see Our Staff.

  Contact:

  Karly Wiley, MFTi, Associate Administrator
  STARS Community Services - San Leandro
  545 Estudillo Ave.
  San Leandro, CA, 94577
  Phone: (510) 352-9200 ext 210
  Fax: (510) 352-3120
  email: kwiley@starsinc.com

  Michelle McDonald, LMFT, Regional Administrator
  Starlight Community Services
  1885 Lundy Ave., Suite 223
  San Jose, CA 95131
  phone: (408) 284-9000
  fax: (408) 284-9048
  email: mmcdonald@starsinc.com

  Driving Directions:

  From San Francisco/Oakland/Sacramento
  Take 580 East
  Exit on Dutton and Estudillo Avenue
  Proceed on MacArthur Blvd
  Turn right on Estudillo Avenue
  Proceed until crossing Bancroft Avenue
  STARS Community Services is on the left within 1/2 block of the cross street, which is Bancroft Ave.

  From San Lorenzo/Hayward/San Jose
  Take 880 North
  Exit at Davis Street
  Proceed on Davis Street
  Turn right on E. 14th Street
  Turn left at next intersection of Estudillo Avenue
  Proceed on Estudillo Avenue. STARS Community Services is located on the right within four blocks just before the cross street, which is Bancroft Avenue.