CHC has done a wonderful job educating the community on youth mental health issues with its free parent education classes and teen mental health initiative. I'm sure CHC's outpatient program will be excellent. Hopefully, PAUSD will offer school credit for participation in CHC's program (like MVLA does with the ASPIRE program). Our community is fortunate to now have great options at the outpatient level but we still have no inpatient services for youth who are experiencing a mental health crisis. The true step-down from hospitalization is a partial hospitalization program. The newly expanded Children's Hospital at Stanford has the space and resources to provide families both hospitalization and partial hospitalization; hopefully, they will soon find the compassion to do so.

I wanted to clarify that San Jose Behavioral Health does now offer inpatient hospitalization for teens 14-17 but it is located at the junction of 101 and 85. In-county, yes. Local-no.