Why Choose Loma Linda University Youth Mental Health
- Safe and healing environment
- Focus on both individual and family needs
- Treatment plans designed in partnership with parents
- A wide variety of programs, including inpatient, partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient therapy
- Specialized adolescent programs for eating disorders and self-injury
- MEND program for children and adolescents with chronic illness or serious medical conditions
Learn more about our Adolescent Programs and Children’s Programs.
Youth Behavioral Health Programs
We have multiple youth behavioral health programs designed to meet the personalized needs of each child. Programs include intensive outpatient programs, outpatient partial hospital programs, and inpatient programs.
Our full treatment team includes youth psychiatrists, nurses, clinical and occupational therapists, teachers, case managers, social workers, chaplains, dieticians and behavioral care assistants.
Youth Intensive Outpatient Program
For children and teens needing treatment a few hours a day for several days a week after school.
Youth Outpatient Partial Hospital Program
A highly structured therapeutic day treatment program lasting six hours a day, five days per week. It serves as a “step down” from inpatient hospitalization or as a means to prevent hospitalization
Youth Inpatient Program
Provides around-the-clock safety and treatment to stabilize the crisis when a child or adolescent behavior becomes dangerous to themselves, their environment or others.
Does my child need behavioral health treatment?
Reasons for admission into one of our programs include:
- Aggressive or self-destructive behavior
- Regressive or psychotic behavior
- Anger or rage episodes
- Oppositional defiant behaviors
- Suicidal threats/attempts
- Domestic violence
- Runaway episodes
- Family conflicts
- Depression and anxiety
- Low motivation
- Grief, loss, and abandonment
- Trauma responses
- Sexual abuse/assault
- Drug/alcohol use
- Poor attention span and hyperactivity
- Poor self-image or identity problems
- School problems/truancy