Programs

BrightLife Kids — a CalHOPE program by Brightline — supports the behavioral health of every family living in California with kids ages 0–12 at no cost. No insurance or referrals are required to access this resource.

BrightLife Kids offers:

• Personalized coaching via video sessions and secure chats
• On-demand articles and videos
• Easy access to support with bilingual (English/Spanish) coaches and live translation in 17 additional languages
• Coach Specialists that connect families who have additional needs to the right resources in their community
• Peer communities & group coaching

BrightLife Kids coaches have diverse backgrounds as well as training and experience with LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and gender-diverse populations. They help families focus on skill-building for everyday challenges by tackling anxiety, stress, sleep, disorganization, and more.

Feel free contact the program for more information (see bottom of the page).

Soluna is part of a CalHOPE initiative to provide virtual behavioral health solutions. It is a free and confidential app and website available to Californians ages 13-25. The app is available in English and Spanish. It contains the following services as stated on their website:

• “Your Coach. Your schedule.”
• Users are able to connect with a trained Soluna Coach between 10 AM and 10 PM PT. Users can book a scheduled session between those hours or simply drop in for a 1:1 chat with a professional coach — whichever they prefer. Soluna also offers a dedicated telecoaching service that lets you talk with a coach over the phone in 19 different languages. No insurance needed, no session limits, and free, just open, judgment-free support on their terms.
• “Power up those life skills”.
• Soluna’s self-guided tools are designed to uncover what matters most, set meaningful goals, and build the skills to handle stress like a pro. Users can work at their own pace, discover new strategies, and work to create the life they want to live.
• “Ditch the drama for something real.”
• In Soluna’s peer support spaces, users are able to share their story, offer encouragement, or just listen — all in a carefully moderated environment where every interaction is reviewed to keep things supportive and safe.
• “Connect with real-world support.”
• Whether it's finding a therapist, connecting to local resources, or accessing community services, the Care Nav team will help users take that next step. The team will guide users to the right support, online or in their community.

Spark Direct is a smartphone app that is designed to reduce low mood and enhance emotional well-being in practical, real-world scenarios. The app was co-created with adolescents. Spark Direct guides adolescents through cognitive-behavioral techniques which aim to help them better understand their relationship with mood and behavior through tailored and interactive exercises. Spark Direct users can track their mood, and if language indicates potential self-harm, users are shown crisis resources and emergency guidance. Spark Direct is a five-week program, guided by Limbot, a robot character tailored to the user:

• Level 1: Start Your Journey
• Level 2: Making Choices
• Level 3: Solving Problems
• Level 4: Staying active
• Level 5: Journey's End

TF-CBT for Youth who have Experienced Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation (TF-CBT for T/CSE) is an advanced training for the use of Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) with youth who have experienced trafficking and/or commercial sexual exploitation and may have also experienced other traumas. This training outlines T/CSE-specific applications of TF-CBT PRACTICE components:

• T/CSE-specific psychoeducation
• Processing T/CSE-specific maladaptive cognitions in trauma narration
• T/CSE-related safety concerns including risk of leaving placement [“running away”] and T/CSE revictimization
• Strategies for addressing common T/CSE clinical challenges such as engagement and retention difficulties and significant emotional and behavioral dysregulation.

There is an emphasis on personal safety and supporting caregiver-youth relationships which are often particular concerns with T/CSE clients. TF-CBT for T/CSE can be used in an array of settings including clinics, homes, residential facilities, and in-patient units. This includes utilization with youth with absent or unavailable caregivers, those in foster care placements, and group homes, consistent with the many settings and circumstances in which youth who experience T/CSE are served.

When people forgive someone who has deeply hurt them, they let go of resentment and the urge to seek revenge, no matter how deserving of these things the wrongdoer may be. The forgiver gives the gifts of acceptance, generosity, and even love. Forgivers give these, not out of grim obligation. Rather, they are given because the forgiver has chosen to have a merciful heart. Forgiveness Therapy is designed to teach the participant how to forgive others through 4 distinct phases. It can be provided in individual or group sessions.

Dads Matter^HV (HV = Home Visitation) is a father inclusion enhancement designed to strengthen evidence-informed early home visitation services in ways that fully consider and include fathers’ roles, aiming to augment the preventive impact of home visitation on physical child abuse and neglect risk from either/both parents. The intervention is manualized and modular in nature, and designed to be flexibly delivered in conjunction with a standard home visiting program within the first 4 to 6 months of services. The intervention can be delivered flexibly in a variety of ways: during individual home visits with fathers and mothers, separately or conjointly, with service delivery occurring virtually, over the telephone, or in person. The intervention modules enhance and do not supplant standard home visiting services, guiding home visitors to assess fathers’ roles, engage, and intervene with biological fathers, working to reduce barriers to father engagement and build positive home visitor-father working relationships, improve the quality of father-mother co-parenting relationship, and directly support fathers in their roles as parents of young children.

SPORT (Substance Prevention Optimizing Resiliency Training) Prevention Plus Wellness Middle School Version is a brief substance use prevention and health promotion intervention designed to highlight the positive image benefits of an active lifestyle to reduce the use of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs by youth. In addition, it aims to improve their overall physical and mental well-being.

SPORT (Substance Prevention Optimizing Resiliency Training) Prevention Plus Wellness High School Version is a brief substance use prevention and health promotion intervention designed to highlight the positive image benefits of an active lifestyle to reduce the use of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs by youth. In addition, it aims to improve their overall physical and mental wellbeing.

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is an approach to psychology that focuses on how one’s beliefs and emotions can affect one’s behavior and well-being.

REBT is the original form and one of the main pillars of cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBT). Alongside with the cognitive therapy (CT), it served as the basis for the development of CBT. In REBT, irrational beliefs are considered central factors of emotional distress, so the focus is on changing irrational beliefs into rational beliefs, with the aim of changing dysfunctional emotions (such as unhealthy anger) and maladaptive behaviors into functional and adaptive ones. The REBT protocols are similar in structure to other CBT approaches (e.g., CT protocols), the main difference relying in the targeted beliefs: REBT specifically focuses on evaluative beliefs, (appraisals) and not inferential or descriptive ones.

Free Talk Group Motivational Interviewing (MI) for Teens is a group-based intervention program that addresses substance use and ways to increase protective factors. Free Talk was developed for teens ages 14-18 who have had a first-time alcohol or drug offense (6 sessions). It is comprised of six sessions. It can be provided to teens in this age group who are may be at risk for alcohol or other drug use in other settings.

The groups use MI as the counseling method. MI is a client-centered, directive communication method designed to enhance motivation for change. Counselors use specific skills to explore and increase clients’ intrinsic motivation regarding healthy behaviors. Free Talk prioritizes respectful interactions and client autonomy and decision-making. The program balances the more complicated interpersonal dynamics of the group process alongside the individual experiences and needs of the participants.

Two other versions of Group Motivational Interviewing (MI) for Teens are also highlighted on the CEBC at CHOICE Group MI for Teens and MICUNAY Group MI for Teens.

MICUNAY (MI and Culture for Urban Native American Youth) Group Motivational Interviewing (MI) for Teens is a group-based prevention/intervention program that addresses substance use and ways to increase protective factors. MICUNAY is for American Indian and Alaska Native adolescents ages 14-18 and comprises three workshops that integrate traditional practices with MI with a focus on healthy choices. The groups use MI as the counseling method. MI is a client-centered, directive communication method designed to enhance motivation for change. Counselors use specific skills to explore and increase clients’ intrinsic motivation regarding healthy behaviors. MICUNAY prioritizes respectful interactions and client autonomy and decision-making. The program balances the more complicated interpersonal dynamics of the group process alongside the individual experiences and needs of the participants.

Two other versions of Group Motivational Interviewing (MI) are also highlighted on the CEBC at Free Talk Group MI for Teens and CHOICE Group MI for Teens.

CHOICE Group Motivational Interviewing (MI) for Teens is a group-based prevention/intervention program that addresses substance use and ways to increase protective factors. CHOICE is for middle school teens who have not used or have just begun to use substances and consists of 5 sessions. The groups use MI as the counseling method. MI is a client-centered, directive communication method designed to enhance motivation for change. Counselors use specific skills to explore and increase clients’ intrinsic motivation regarding healthy behaviors.

Two other versions of Group Motivational Interviewing (MI) are also highlighted on the CEBC at Free Talk Group MI for Teens and MICUNAY Group MI for Teens.