Mental illness and Substance Use conditions affect 1 in 4 people regardless of age, gender identity or ethnic background. These conditions are not the result of personal weakness, lack of character or poor upbringing. Behavioral Health challenges are treatable. Most people diagnosed with a serious mental illness or substance use disorder can experience relief from their symptoms by getting help and by learning ways to better manage their illness.

Solano County Behavioral Health assists over 6,000 children, youth and adults each year who are experiencing a psychiatric crisis, addiction, or who have significant mental and emotional disabilities. Services include: crisis supports, integrated care clinics that offer brief therapy, case management, psychiatric assessments and medication, outpatient treatment; Full Service Partnerships, foster care supports, Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams, supported employment, peer support, and a range of community support services, including various contracted community based organizations and wellness centers.

Mission

To provide person-centered, safe, effective, efficient, timely and equitable mental health and substance use services, that are supported by friends and community, that promote wellness/recovery, and that fully incorporate shared decision making between the people we service, their family members and our community providers.

Overarching Principles

Care is provided to promote the self defined recovery, family and child resiliency as well as positive development of each person served. Care is provided in a culturally and linguistically competent way with sensitivity to and awareness of the persons’ self-identified culture, race, ethnicity, language preference, age, gender sexual orientation, disability, religious/spiritual beliefs and socio-economic status.

Values

Hope		Empowerment
Resilience		Inclusion
Choice		Self-reliance & responsibility
Community Integration		Meaningful quality of life

Staff
Our Leadership team is Led by Deputy Director, Sandra Sinz, LCSW with Administrators over Adult Services- Emery Cowan, LPCC, LMHC, and Children’s Services- Leticia De La Cruz Salas, LCSW. Our Psychiatry Medical Director is Dr. Michelle King and our Managers oversee various programs and initiatives:

• Christina Stimmann, LCSW - Acute Care- Hospital Liaison, Institutional Care Services
• Kate Grammy, PsyD - Adult Specialty Services - ACT-FSP, Triage- Forensic
• Katherine Kellum, LCSW - Children’s FSP and Foster Care Unit
• Melanie Cook, LMFT - Fairfield ICC Adults and Wellness Recovery Unit
• Michael Kitzes, LMFT - Vacaville ICC- Adults and Children
• Miranda Ramirez, LCSW - Community Integration, Housing & Homeless
• Rob George, LCSW - Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement
• Rozzana Verder-Aliga, EdD, LMFT - Vallejo ICC - Adults and Children
• Tracy Lacey, LMFT - MHSA Coordinator

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