Industry Bulletins | August 30, 2017
Two Santa Barbara County Social Services Agencies Plan To Merge
Santa Maria Valley Youth and Family Center and the Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County announced that they will merge. The two organizations will join together to form a single entity that provides mental health counseling, basic needs assistance, and case management to consumers in Santa Barbara County.
After the retirement of the Santa Maria Valley Youth and Family Center executive director, the organization had to determine how it would approach the future, and determined that the Family Service Agency's mission and culture would be a good fit for its own. Additionally, the organization decided that the merger . . .