Santa Clara County
Starlight Community Services
Starlight Community Services in Santa Clara
Starlight Community Services provides programs for children, adolescents and transitional age youth (TAY) who face emotional, behavioral, and learning challenges and have difficulty succeeding in family or community living environments. Our highly individualized and flexible approach supports youth at school, with their families, or within the community. Services are available to those ages 2-25 residing in Santa Clara County who have mental health issues at home or at school. Approval for treatment must be given by the Santa Clara County Department of Mental Health.
The Starlight staff collaborates with teachers, principals, and other school personnel to achieve goals established by the student, family, and treatment professionals. Care is provided by dedicated and experienced staff, including licensed psychiatrists, psychologists, teachers, social workers, and marriage and family therapists.
Programs & Services
Full Service Partnerships (FSPs)
Using a Wraparound approach specific to our FSP programs, Starlight Community Services and our partner — the California Youth Outreach — provide Juvenile-Justice-involved and at-risk children and TAY, along with their families, a wide range of services and supports.
Therapeutic Behavioral Services
Therapeutic behavioral services are provided to qualifying youngsters who need additional guidance and support. Skilled mental health staff members work with the youngsters on a one-to-one basis, helping them avoid placement in a more restrictive, higher level of care and assisting them in transitioning to lower levels of care.
Intensive Outpatient (IOP)
A comprehensive array of community-based services. Our Intensive Outpatient program is child-centered, family-focused, and culturally competent. Facilitating a smooth transition among agencies, our dedicated staff provides youth and adolescents individualized service planning in the least restrictive setting.
Outpatient Services
Short term, primarily clinic based services offering individual and family therapy for children and adolescents ages 6-18 and their families.
School Linked Services
Coordinated services with district and local school personnel to achieve effective referral and treatment.
Internship Program
Starlight offers MFT trainees and MSW interns with a practicum opportunity to become knowledgeable and skillful in working with children and families. In close partnership with many of the Bay Area’s graduate school programs, we have created a placement program that offers a wide range of clinical experience for our student interns/trainees.
TEAMMATES Wraparound
Wraparound is an integrated, multi-agency, community based process grounded in a philosophy of persistent commitment to support families in safe and competent care for their children.
The single most important goal of Wraparound is achieving stability for children to thrive in a permanent home. Wraparound is a planning process based on a vision created by the family-identified Child and Family Team.
Families may access the Wraparound Process through a referral to the County’s Resource and Intensive Services Committee (RISC) Team. RISC referrals are made by the family’s assigned County Worker based on the following:
- Child’s Mental Health needs
- Child and family’s multiple unmet needs
- Child’s placement at risk
REACH
Raising Early Awareness & Creating Hope (REACH) serves youth ages 10-25 in the county who are at risk for developing mental illness. The mission is to raise awareness and understanding of mental illness within the community while offering treatment to underserved youth and their families. REACH is a collaborative effort between Starlight and Momentum Mental Health. Click to learn about the REACH Program.
Morgan Hill Mental Health Clinic
Individual, group, and family therapy focused on supporting Juvenile-Justice-involved youth and their families. These services, which help youth while in detention facilities, are aimed at reducing criminal activity and re-incarceration.
Evidence-based and Evidence-informed Practices
Evidence-based Practices (EBPs) are those interventions and supports that have research documenting their effectiveness. Click for more about Starlight’s EBPs.
Contact Info
Angela Nunes
Administrator
Starlight Community Services
1885 Lundy Ave., Suite 223, San Jose, CA 95131
Phone: (408) 284-9080
Fax: (408) 284-9048
anunes@starsinc.com
6203 San Ignacio Ave, Suite 150
San Jose, CA 95119
Phone: (408) 284-9080
Karly Wiley, LMFT
Regional Administrator
Starlight Community Services
7677 Oakport Street, Suite 1010, Oakland, CA, 94621
Phone: (510) 635-9705 x 202
Fax: (510) 635-9715
kwiley@starsinc.com
