We promote the optimal physical, intellectual, social and emotional well-being of adults and older adults with serious mental illness. We offer inpatient, outpatient, acute care services, subacute care, and residential care through a variety of county-operated and contracted providers. For more information, read the Adult Mental Health Services web page.

Adult Mental Health Access Team
Phone: (916) 875-1055, TTY/TDD: (916) 874-8070

We administer prevention, treatment, and recovery services for alcohol and drug abuse. We contract with an array of community-based service providers throughout Sacramento County. The range of services provided through these organizations includes outpatient treatment, methadone treatment, day treatment, detoxification, residential services, and perinatal services. For more information, read the Alcohol and Drug Services web page.

Alcohol & Drug System of Care
3331 Power Inn Road, Suite 120
Sacramento, CA 95826
Phone: (916) 874-9754

The CalFresh program is intended to prevent hunger and improve nutrition and health. The program helps low-income households buy the food they need for a nutritionally adequate diet. More information.

The program provides comprehensive case management services to help pregnant and parenting teens graduate from high school, become independent and form healthy families. More information.

The CalWORKs (California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids) program promotes and encourages work to enable families to become self-sufficient. More information.

The CAPI program was designed to provide cash assistance to certain aged, blind and disabled immigrants who could no longer qualify for the Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program. More information.

The purpose of the CMISP program is to provide medically necessary care to all eligible indigents who are residents of Sacramento County. More information.

EBT is a benefit issuance system that allows recipients to get their Food Stamps or cash aid using a debit-type card. More information.

Welcome to the Sacramento County Emergency Medical Services (EMS)Agency Web Site. The mission of our Agency is to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate the quality of
emergency medical services provided to the residents of and visitors to Sacramento County.

These programs offer innovative employment and job retention services to individuals seeking employment for the first time or returning to the work force. More information.

Get started on becoming a foster parent/resource family by completing this one-page application and mailing it to: Sacramento County Foster Home Licensing Dept. This is a PDF file that allows you to type your information while online. You may also hand-write the information. You'll need to print it to mail it either way. View the Foster Parent application page.

The purpose of the General Assistance program in Sacramento County is to provide assistance to all eligible indigent residents of Sacramento County. It is intended to provide short-term financial assistance and social services that will enable a recipient either to find employment or to obtain support from another source. More information.

Low income adults who do not qualify for Medi-Cal or other health coverage may be eligible for one of the following programs:

• Low Income Health Program (LIHP)
• County Medically Indigent Program (CMISP)

Visit the Primary Health Services website for available programs, eligibility information, and how to apply.

Applications are available at :
Primary Care Clinic and Pharmacy
4600 Broadway
Sacramento, Ca. 95820

The Medi-Cal Program provides comprehensive medical benefits to all public assistance recipients, and to certain other eligible persons, who are seeking assistance with the cost of their medical care. The two main groups of beneficiaries are those persons receiving Public Assistance (PA) and those who are eligible for Medical Assistance Only (MAO). More information.

The Sacramento County Medical Marijuana Identification Card (MMIC) Program provides patients with the State medical marijuana identification card. The card can assist law enforcement officials to know if the individual using marijuana meets the requirements of the Compassionate Use Act. For more information, view the Card Program page.

If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, please call (888) 881-4881.

The Office of Compliance provides guidance and oversight to County departments for compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). HIPAA imposes restrictions on the use and disclosure of identifiable health information. The Office of Compliance also provides departmental HIPAA training, audits and investigations as assigned by the County Compliance Officer.

When no other alternatives are available, we provide assistance for individuals unable to care for their personal needs or financial resources, and provide estate closure services on behalf of deceased residents of Sacramento County. For more information, read the Public Administrator/Guardian/Conservator web page.

Public Administrator: Phone (916) 875-4491
Public Guardian/Conservator: Phone (916) 875-4467

A volunteer program for anyone 55 years of age and older who are willing to share their lifetime of experience with others. Placements are in a variety of settings throughout Sacramento County. More information.

A volunteer program for anyone 60 years of age and older, low income, and are willing to share their lifetime of experience to help homebound seniors remain safely and happily in their own home. Services are provided in Sacramento, Yolo and Nevada counties. More information.

This program provides free tax preparation services to qualified low to moderate income people during the months of February and March each year. More information.

Do you want to quit smoking? Do you want to quit chewing tobacco? Do you have a family member or friend who wants to quit? View the Tobacco Cessation page for more information.

The Laverne Adolfo program provides transitional housing and supportive services to former foster youth in the age range of 18 years and up to the 24th birthday for Transitional Housing and through 24 years for Permanent Supportive Housing. The Adolfo program also provides services to youth with children.

The mission of the Veterans History Project is to collect the memories, accounts, and documents of war veterans from World War I, World War II, Korean, Vietnam, and Persian Gulf Wars. We preserve these stories of experience and service for future generations.

This project honors our nation’s war veterans and those who served in support of them and create a lasting legacy of recorded interviews and other documents chronicling veterans’ and other citizens’ wartime experiences and how those experiences affected their lives and America itself. More information.

Providing assistance in preparing and presenting claims for benefits to veterans and their dependents. More information.

The goal of this program is to empower teens to delay sexual activity through knowledge and skill building. View the Program page for more information.

The Black Infant Health Program provides service to women for the purpose of eliminating the disproportionate rate of African American infant mortality seen in the Sacramento community. African American women experience two-and-a-half times the number of infant deaths than other racial and ethnic groups in our community. View the Program page.

Children need to be properly restrained when traveling in vehicles. Did you know that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) states that 4 out of 5 car seats are not installed correctly? The ChIIP Program seeks to ensure that children are properly restrained each time they ride in a vehicle. View the Car Seat Safety Education page for more information.

Sacramento County is a state licensed adoption agency. As a public adoption agency, children available are dependents of juvenile court. These children have been removed from their biological parents. The Adoptions program staff is responsible for assessing if adoption is the best plan for the child. They strive to ensure that a child and adoptive family are well-matched, and that the family will help the child develop to his or her fullest potential. View the Adoption Program web page for more information.

Parents receiving cash aid and participating in a welfare to work activity may receive subsidized child care. More information.

Cases are opened three ways:

• If the family is receiving CalWORKs or MediCal benefits, the social services department will refer the case to the child support agency for opening.
• If no CalWORKs is being paid to the family, either parent may ask the child support agency to open a case.
• If there is a family in another state that is seeking support from someone in Sacramento County, the other state will open a case with the child support agency.

View the Opening a Case page for more information.

We provide a full array of culturally competent and linguistically proficient mental health services to children and youth ages 0-21 years. Services include prevention and early intervention services; outpatient services; case management; crisis intervention and stabilization services; and inpatient psychiatric hospitalization. For more information, read the Children's Mental Health Services web page.

Children's Mental Health Access Team Phone (916) 875-9980, TTY/TTD: (916) 8756-8892

The Foster Care program provides cash and Medi-Cal benefits for providers of out-of-home care for children placed into foster care by Sacramento County Child Protective Services (CPS) or Probation Department. More information.

A volunteer program for anyone 60 years of age and older, low income, and are willing to share their lifetime of experience with children with special needs. More information.

David Olds, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Preventive Medicine at the University of Colorado, developed the Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) program more than 20 years ago. It is a highly-acclaimed, evidence-based early childhood intervention program using the nurse home-visitation model. For more information visit the NFP page.

Women Infants Children (WIC) Program is a nutrition program that helps pregnant women, new mothers and young children eat well and stay healthy. Read the WIC page for more information.

Women Infants Children Program
2251 Florin Rd. #100
Sacramento, CA. 95822

e-mail: WIC@SacCounty.net

In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) serves aged, blind, or disabled persons who are unable to perform activities of daily living and cannot remain safely in their own homes without help. For more information, visit the IHSS page.

SAS/SMUD Energy Assistance program through SMUD offers several programs which can be of great value to low income seniors sixty five and over and dependent adults. View the SEAT web page for more information.