Behavioral Health clinics are open. Face masks are required at all times when indoors. View Hotline Numbers Here.
The Health Agency is actively responding to COVID-19 and continuing to provide other essential services. Please see updates from Animal Services, Behavioral Health, Public Guardian and Public Health.
Behavioral Health Director
Please contact our access line at 1 (800) 838-1381 for information or to schedule an appointment. All services are available in Spanish.
Looking to start mental health or drug & alcohol services? Please call (800) 838-1381.
If you are in a life threatening emergency situation, please call 9-1-1.
The Behavioral Health Department is part of the Health Agency and works in collaboration with the community to provide services necessary to improve and maintain the health and safety of individuals and families affected by mental illness and/or substance abuse. Services are designed to assist in the recovery process to achieve the highest quality of life by providing culturally competent, strength based and client and family centered strategies utilizing best practices.
Call us at (800) 838-1381. During the phone conversation, we will ask you whether your needs are urgent and what type of help you are looking for.
Once we identify what type of help you would like, we will schedule a follow-up appointment to into more detail and understand your specific needs.
At your follow-up appointment, we will connect you and/or your family member to services that you and your counselor agree will help you most.
Team of Cal Poly students have helped design web app which allows free delivery of naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal medicine.
The San Luis Obispo County Friday Night Live (FNL) Partnership is excited to announce the return of it’s annual Reindeer Run, this Saturday, December 11, 2021.
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