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Salinas Valley Psychiatric Program (SVPP) is located within the beautiful Salinas Valley of California.  Bright, sunny days and cool ocean breezes compliment the supportive working atmosphere of our Program.

Opening in 2003, the SVPP Intermediate Treatment Program is committed to the pursuit of quality in providing assessment and treatment services to the mentally ill inmates in CDCR.  We believe that the effective and timely provision of treatment services benefits the individual patient, the individuals who associate with the patient, and society in general. 

The professional disciplines of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychiatric Social Work, Rehabilitation Therapy, Nursing, Dietetics, Pharmacy and Medical Technical Assistants constitute a multidisciplinary approach to the evaluation and treatment.  The treatment milieu consists of a therapeutic environment that provides structured group therapies, recreation and leisure, and psychotropic medication adjustment and maintenance.  The psycho-educational therapies include:  coping skills development, understanding and modifying substance abuse behaviors, medication compliance, adaptive living skills, rehabilitation therapies, anger management, and discharge planning.

The Department of Mental Health and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation realize a need for expansion of psychiatric services to inmate-patients within the prison system.  We are currently expanding housing to an additional 36-beds.  Plans are to expand again within the next two years with 28 more beds.  In addition, construction will begin to build another site, on Salinas Valley State Prison grounds, to house an additional 64 beds.

These expansions indicate a need for psychiatric services to inmate-patients, and the desire to provide such services in a timely manner.

The Department of Mental Health, Long Term Care Services Division, and SVPP Management remain committed to establishing the highest quality program to care for the mentally ill.  SVPP continues to recruit individuals who will provide caring treatment to our patients, and treat each patient as an individual with respect, dignity, and understanding coupled with an excellent staff to patient ratio in a state-of-the-art facility.  Come join our team!

Department of Mental Health
Personnel Department
P. O. Box 1080
Soledad, CA  93960
(831) 678-5667

VICTOR F. BREWER
Executive Director