About Helpline Youth Counseling Helpline Youth Counseling, Inc. (HYC) has been empowering children, youth, and families since 1971. Using a client-centered, strength-based service philosophy and trauma-informed approach, they deliver integrated counseling, education, prevention, early intervention and treatment services assisting at-risk, low-income children, youth, and families to heal from trauma including child abuse, family and domestic violence,... Read more
Mental Health EHR Software Buyers Guide
What is EHR software? Before you start shopping for an EHR, it’s important to understand what it is and how it can help your agency. An EHR is an electronic version of a client’s... Read More
Celebrating the Work You Do: Alternative Family Services
About Alternative Family Services Alternative Family Services provides thoughtful, informed foster care, adoption, and mental health, transition age youth, and juvenile restorative justice services across 19 counties in the Greater Bay and Sacramento areas.... Read More
Why Is People-First Language Important?
When a person is diagnosed with a mental health problem, it can be hard for them to understand what it all means. What does being diagnosed with a bipolar disorder mean? Will I get... Read More
Tips for Working Remotely for Therapists
It’s clear the landscape of the workplace is changing, and the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated that change. Employers and employees have spent the past year and a half trying to find the right setup,... Read More
Celebrating the Work You Do: Counseling4Kids
About Counseling4Kids Counseling4Kids has been in business for nearly 25 years, and they started as a small private practice with just a few therapists with a desire to help children who were involved in... Read More
CalAIM Information | How Exym Mental Health EHR is Preparing
What is Cal-AIM? CalAIM, or California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal, is a multiyear process led by the California Department of Health Care Services to improve the health outcomes and quality of life experienced by... Read More
Celebrating the Work You Do: Boys Republic
About Boys Republic Since 1907, Boys Republic has worked with one of society’s least served yet most socially significant populations — troubled teenagers. The survivors of childhood abuse, abandonment, serious family dysfunction or other trauma,... Read More
World Mental Health Day 2021 | How to Raise Mental Health Awareness
World Mental Health Day 2021 World Mental Health Day is October 10, 2021. This year it will have been more than 18 months since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. In some countries, life... Read More
What is Value-Based Care?
It seems like in the past 18 months, there are more and more new terms being thrown around that apply to healthcare and mental health. One term that keeps coming up is “Value-Based Care”.... Read More