Community Youth Center

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Health and Wellness


For young people in San Francisco, access to culturally attuned and language-appropriate health and wellness services is piecemeal at best. CYC provides a broad array of services for youth facing challenges related to mental health, drug prevention, healthy relationships, bullying, and violence prevention.

Our work today focuses on:

  • Assisting youth dealing with trauma, illness, and significantly stretched or altered family, social, and academic relationships. Underserved and culturally/linguistically isolated youth are in danger of falling further behind and not having access to vital mental health and supportive services.
  • Assisting families via case management, individualized family therapy, and supportive parenting classes. Several of these programs are funded by Community Behavioral Health Services under the San Francisco Department of Public Health.
  • Assisting high-risk and at-risk youth in crisis through direct intervention, mental health referrals, individual and family counseling, court advocacy, and linkages to wraparound services.

Note: CYC maintains a central intake system to place to provide referrals and case management services. Please contact the On-Duty Intake Counselor at 415-775-2636 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Monday-Friday. Please contact 911 in case of any emergency.

Dr. Dennis Chen, Program Director, CYC (left) and Cruz Chan, Clinical Manager, Healing for Asians RAMS, Inc. (right) Photo credit: Skylink TV

My Community returns with new episodes that examine the realities many San Francisco families navigate and the pathways that help people move forward. Produced by Skylink TV and informed by Community Youth Center of San Francisco’s on-the-ground expertise, the series pairs dramatized stories rooted in lived experience with conversations featuring CYC staff, behavioral health professionals, and community partners. Together, these episodes offer practical insight, cultural context, and guidance grounded in real situations facing our city.
New episodes premiere every Thursday at 6 pm on our YouTube channel.

aapi youth & family

This program addresses mental health stigma, limited access to linguistically and culturally appropriate services, and co-factors surrounding AAPI youth and LGBTQIA+ youth mental health issues such as violence and substance abuse.

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healthy lifestyles

Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSTD) and Intensive Supervision and Clinical Services (ISCS) are community-based supervision and case management services for individual and family therapy. Both programs seek to motivate success and promote healthy lifestyles.

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aapi youth drug prevention

This program partners with multiple agencies citywide that work together to promote a substance abuse program. The program teaches youth about leading a healthy lifestyle, making sound choices, and avoiding the pitfalls and dangers of drug, alcohol, and nicotine abuse.

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aapi violence prevention

This program works to reconnect at-risk AAPI youth with caring adults and peers by providing financial, social, and recreational resources, building individual strengths, and promoting the importance of youth and family communication.

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assessment & referral

Community Assessment Referral Center (CARC) is a shared space for community-based organizations that collaboratively work with arrested youth in the juvenile hall system to provide them with case management, support, opportunity, and hope.

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