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Every program on this site holds a California license or certification. Before sending anyone anywhere, check it with the department that issued it.

Homes licensed by Social Services

Crisis, transitional and long-term mental health houses, teen homes and STRTPs. The Community Care Licensing facility search shows the license, inspection visits and substantiated complaints.

Programs licensed by Health Care Services

Substance use residential, mental health rehabilitation centers and psychiatric health facilities. Lists are on the state open data portal.

Hospitals licensed by Public Health

See the healthcare facility listing. Outside California, use FindTreatment.gov.

Red flags

  • No license number, or one that does not match the address.
  • Pressure to decide today.
  • Offers of free travel, rent or cash.
  • No clear answer about what happens if the person gets worse.

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Related kinds of care.

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Substance use residential

Every residential and detox program the state licenses.

Open 500

Teen residential

Private homes, STRTPs and teen substance use programs.

Open 281

Adult mental health residential

Transitional, long-term and locked programs for adults.

Open 2,259

All residential care

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Where every row comes from.

How crisis, transitional and long-term are told apart. The DHCS list labels all three as social rehabilitation programs. We group them by the type letter in each certificate number: S for short-term crisis, T for transitional, L for long-term. DHCS does not publish this key; we checked it against programs whose own descriptions are known. Treat the grouping as our reading of the file, not a state label.

Private teen homes. The CDSS file lists 342 children's group homes but does not say which are treatment programs. We kept the ones run by youth treatment operators we could identify by name, from the file dated May 2025, the latest the state has posted. That list can miss an operator; if a teen treatment home is missing, tell us. A licence record does not establish age range, fit, quality, safety or an open bed.

STRTPs. A DHCS mental health program approval is not the separate CDSS facility licence. Neither proves age, fit, admission or an open bed. For a named program, use the exact-record check.

Mental health houses without a DHCS row. 33 houses hold a Social Services social rehabilitation licence that we could not match to a DHCS certification, by name and city. Their programme type is not stated in either file.

Developmental disability homes. From the Social Services licensing file (May 2025). Children's home addresses are withheld by the state.

Substance use hospitals. Chemical dependency recovery hospitals from the CDPH facility listing, 1 October 2026.

License dates. 62 substance use rows show an expiration before 1 October 2026 in the state file. They are tagged, not removed, because renewals can lag.

Eating disorders. Licensed by CDPH as congregate living health facilities. The state file does not say which homes treat eating disorders, so we matched names and street addresses to operators' published residential sites, checked 1 October 2026. One operator-listed site was not found in the CDPH file and is flagged.

What a row can prove. That the state listed a named program, its operator, city and capacity in a dated file. It cannot prove quality, safety, fit, payment, admission or an open bed. Inclusion is computed from those files and is never purchased.

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