Building Strong Minds,
Strengthening Our Community
Bonita House is dedicated to promoting mental wellness and providing social services to individuals in need. We strive to build a supportive community where everyone feels heard, valued, and empowered to achieve their full potential.
52+
Years
About Bonita House
Bonita House, Inc., a private, nonprofit Mental Health agency founded in 1971, offers services to adults with serious psychiatric challenges and specializes in treatment for individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Our continuum of care includes dual diagnosis residential treatment, wellness center day programs, supported independent living, housing, outreach & engagement, employment services, and mobile crisis response teams throughout Alameda County.
Building community, dignity, hope and wellness through services that support recovery and self-sufficiency with people who are living with serious mental health challenges.
Our Core Values
Compassion
Committed to caring, dignity, kindness
Respect
Honor each individual and provide highly ethical services
Progress
Leading the way in creating opportunities to change for the better
Resilience
Channeling hope, and building strengths to recover, adapt, and grow successfully
Embracing Differences
Honor and celebrate our diverse communities and our uniqueness
Services
The Best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Residential Treatment
The Dual Diagnosis Residential Program’s evidence-based practices integrate mental health and substance use interventions, treatment, and recovery to help clients build the skills necessary to function in the living, learning, working, and social environment of their choosing.
Wellness Centers
The Centers provide a safe, inclusive environment with activities that enhance well-being and recovery, and provide socialization in a caring community that fosters self sufficiency. The programs offers creative expression through art, and participants are encouraged to design their own wellness program based on their interests and goals.
Supported Independent Living ( SIL)
SIL offers an array of services to support clients in maintaining their basic everyday needs, including housing, and in finding meaningful roles and activities in the community. Participants have access to behavioral rehabilitation as well as psychiatric medication support and assessment.
Mobile Crisis Services
Mobile Crisis Teams respond in coordination with law enforcement to mental health emergencies, and to brings behavioral health experts on scene to provide de-escalation, a mental health assessment, crisis management, and to determine the most appropriate disposition for the person in need and facilitate that process.
In Home outreach (IHOT)
IHOT provides short-term outreach using a trauma informed, culturally responsive approach, and engages with individuals living with serious, untreated mental illness to link them to behavioral healthcare and other community services tailored to their complex needs.
CalWORKs
The CalWORKs Phoenix SKILLS Program provides services to clients and their families experiencing mental health challenges that create barriers to employment and education and seeks to empower them as they move towards self-sufficiency.
Services
The greatest service we can perform for others is to help them to help themselves.
Residential Treatment
Focused on evidence-based practices that integrate mental health and substance use interventions, treatments, and recovery, aiming to enhance individuals’ functioning and well-being in their chosen living, learning, working, and social environments.
In Home
Outreach
Program provides short-term outreach and engagement to individuals living with serious, untreated mental illness in an effort to link them to behavioral healthcare and other community services tailored to their complex needs.
Mobile
Crisis
Teams respond in coordination with law enforcement to bring behavioral health experts on scene to provide de-escalation, a mental health assessment, crisis management, and to determine the most appropriate disposition for the person in need and facilitate that process.
Resilience
Channeling hope, building strengths to sucessfully reccover, adapt, and grow
Success Stories
James
IHOT helped “James” understand and express his needs, and connected him with multiple layers of support to increase his mental health and improve his lifestyle.
Nicole
“Nicole” took charge of her mental wellness, earning her CNA through the Salvation Army Quest program and finding part-time work. Her depression symptoms are greatly reduced, and she’s writing a new chapter in her life.
Dawn
With CalWORKS support, “Dawn” found housing and employment, and started a part-time business in the food industry to better support her family, advancing toward her goal of self-sufficiency.
Marcus
The Bonita House Residential Treatment Program helped “Marcus” quit substance use and improve his mental health. Today, he is a leader in the SIL Housing program and in his community.
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