The Community Assessment and Referral
Center (CARC) provides a single point of entry for crisis
intervention, assessment, service integration and referral of arrested
youth. The program provides a setting in which staff from juvenile
probation, public health, the sheriff's department, the police
department, and community-based organizations work together in the same
space to assess and case manage youth who are arrested for a variety of
offenses. The CARC is a collaboration in the most unique sense of the
word: a very real public/private partnership that is paving the way
for a new process to provide adolescents who have made mistakes with
guidance and support.
The CARC serves young people ages 11-17 arrested for a variety of
offenses, including both felonies and misdemeanors. Youth are brought
to the CARC in police custody. Once at the CARC, the youth meets with a
probation officer for intake, a licensed psychology technician to
identify any physical or mental health crisis, and a case manager, who
conducts a voluntary assessment. The CARC staff develops a case plan. Youth
and their families leave CARC with a new sense of support, opportunity
and hope. The CARC case managers have successfully worked with youth to
reintegrate them into the schools, arrange for special educational
services, obtain mental health services, complete community service and
probation requirements, and engage the youth in positive social, arts,
athletic, and youth development programs.
The CARC is open from 9 am to Midnight, Monday through Friday. HYP contracts with the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justicel (MOCJ), which is a department of the City and County of San
Francisco. For further information, please call (415) 567-8078.
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