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Mental health services for youth across Northern California

We serve children, youth, and young adults ages 2–25 across Northern California, meeting them in the places they already are, including school, their homes, and in the community.

We support young people who are navigating

  • Mental health challenges
  • The effects of trauma
  • Learning disabilities
  • Difficulty with emotions or relationships
  • Developmental delays

Including young people who are

  • Facing financial hardship
  • Involved in the justice system
  • Pregnant or parenting
  • Navigating the foster care system
  • Receiving special education services

How referrals work: Youth are referred to OTTP-NorCal through their schools, the Department of Public Health Behavioral Health Services, community partners, and social workers. The referral process is dependent upon the specific program the youth is being referred to.

If you're looking for assistance or support, visit our Resources page.

If you're looking for mental health diagnoses procedures, call the Behavioral Health Access Line/Office of Coordinated Care: 888-246-3333

OTTP-NorCal Demographics Chart
Our programs

Where we work

OTTP-NorCal delivers services across a wide range of settings through contracts and partnerships with government agencies, school districts, and community organizations across Northern California.

Dept. of Public Health / Behavioral Health Services

Out-Patient Mental Health Services

Family Mosaic Project

SF Unified School District / Special Education

Shoestrings Project

SF Unified School District / County Community Schools

Independence High School

Civic Center Secondary School

Buena Vista Horace Mann (BVHM)

Longfellow

Edgewood Center for Children & Families

Acute Intensive Services

Hospital diversion, residential, partial hospitalization & intensive outpatient programs

Department of Rehabilitation

TAY Employment Program

Transitional age youth employment and vocational support

Dept. of Children, Youth & Their Families

Career Awareness

Detention Services

Girls Services

Connective Services

This is a selection of our programs. See all our programs →

OTTP-NorCal staff outside the Juvenile Justice Center OTTP staff in counseling enriched classroom OTTP staff at Leola Havard Preschool

Want to learn more about how we work?

Explore our clinical approach and the interventions we use across all of our programs.

Our approach Interventions
Beyond Direct Services

Supporting the adults who show up for a child every day

Our clinicians work directly with children, youth, and young adults, but healing is most powerful when it extends beyond the individual. Teachers, school staff, and parents are often the people a young person turns to most, so equipping those adults with the right tools matters just as much as the therapy itself.

OTTP is just one part of a child's world. Our professional development and capacity-building work is how we help strengthen the whole community around them, always growing out of a real need or an existing relationship.

For Schools

Workshops for School Staff & Teachers

Tailored to your specific classroom, school, or community context, so therapists can speak to the real students and real challenges staff are navigating every day.

  • Trauma-informed care & sensory processing
  • Neurodiversity & co-regulation
  • Practical strategies for transitions and triggers

For Parents & Caregivers

Parent Cafés & Resource Groups

A space for caregivers to learn, ask questions, and feel supported by others who understand what it's like to parent a child through big emotions and hard moments.

  • Grounded in child development & emotional regulation
  • Peer connection with other caregivers
  • Answers to the "why" behind hard behaviors

For Partner Organizations

Partner Agency Trainings

We equip staff at other nonprofits doing community mental health work with an occupational therapy perspective they may not otherwise have access to.

  • Built from existing partnerships & direct requests
  • An OT lens on development & behavior
  • Practical tools, not new demands
Our Approach

From "this kid is being difficult" to "this kid is communicating something their nervous system needs."

Our trainings never tell a teacher or parent what they're doing wrong. They offer a lens rooted in child development, sensory processing, and emotional regulation, so a "disruptive" behavior becomes something an adult can support rather than just manage.