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Care that meets every youth where they are

At OTTP-NorCal, we provide client-centered, strengths-based, and customized care. While each program features a different emphasis and offers a unique spectrum of services, our approach is always rooted in the same core principles.

Client-centered Strengths-based Trauma-informed Culturally responsive Holistic Youth-empowering

What guides every session

01

Honor the whole person

We identify and honor each youth's interests, priorities, and cultural background as the foundation of everything we do.

02

Lead with strengths

We find and facilitate opportunities to cultivate each youth's unique strengths — not just address their challenges.

03

Connect to community

We facilitate utilization of community resources that match each youth's strengths, interests, and goals.

04

Approach holistically

We approach each youth as a whole person — considering their mental, physical, social, and environmental context together.

05

Empower through choice

We empower youth to select their own treatment options, building agency and self-determination from the very first session.

06

Trauma-informed care

We provide trauma-informed care and healing-centered interventions that create safety, trust, and the conditions for real growth.

07

Build real-world skills

We address social skills, healthy decision-making, problem-solving, healthy risk-taking, effective communication, vocational skills and experience, and educational pursuits — the skills that carry into everyday life.

We invite each youth to bring all of themselves to every session.