Sunny Hills Services (SHS) and Bay Area Youth Centers (BAYC) announced today that they are proceeding with a merger of the two organizations... [click for more info ]

Established in 1895, Sunny Hills Services is a private, non-profit organization that provides a full spectrum of residential, education, mental health, and community-based services designed to meet the needs of emotionally and mentally disturbed, neglected and abused children from 5 through 21 years of age.

Each year, Sunny Hills Services provides direct treatment to over 400 children in our programs and reaches many of their family members with our supportive family therapy services. Located in Marin County, Sunny Hills Services treats clients from throughout the Bay Area and California.

Many of these children have failed in other placements. While their backgrounds vary, the goal for every child is the same: a diagnosis of the problem and personalized treatment that allows him or her to feel secure, begin to heal, acquire coping skills, discover some of the joys of childhood and return to his or her community. The highly recognized programs at Sunny Hills Services provide our clients the skills necessary for normal, productive lives.

Known for exceptional professionalism, quality of care, high levels of family involvement, and documented client improvement, Sunny Hills Services has earned a reputation for turning children's lives around. The majority of our residential children under age 12 are able to leave our group home program to rejoin their families or join a foster or adoptive family; many of our residential teens have the same success. Most of our non-residential clients have learned to cope with their emotional issues, have improved their behavior, and have learned functioning life and/or job skills to the degree that they can return to their own or foster families, or begin to live independently when they reach age 18.

Sunny Hills Services is an accredited member of the California Alliance of Child and Family Services and a member agency of the Child Welfare League of America.