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Buckelew Programs

We provide supported housing, supported employment, and behavioral health services that promote wellness and recovery from mental illness.

The North Bay's largest nonprofit provider of comprehensive behavioral health services, helping those with mental health & addiction challenges to lead healthier, more independent lives. Buckelew Programs strengthens communities in California's North Bay by helping people with mental health and substance use challenges to lead more sustainable lives. Buckelew Programs is a community-based agency providing a variety of mental health services to children, families, and adults, including Family Service Agency’s childhood trauma services, Suicide Prevention and Community Counseling, family crisis counseling, the Helen Vine Detox Center, and Buckelew Programs affordable housing, employment assistance and individualized, person-centered, holistic services that promote wellness and recovery for adults with serious mental illness. The purpose of our programs is to help people with mental health and substance use disorders to live, work, learn, and participate fully in their communities.

12/27/2025

There’s still time to make a difference! ❤️ The final days of our year-end campaign are here, and we need your help to reach our goal.

Your generous donation will provide critical services to people right here in our community. As an added incentive, your gift will be matched by the Lindskog Foundation and Sutter Health, doubling your impact!

Let’s come together to create a brighter future. Donate today: https://buckelew.org/buckelew55/

12/26/2025

Every recovery journey begins with someone who believes change is possible.

For the past 26 years, Helen Vine Recovery Center staff have been that ‘someone’. We hold on to this belief for our clients—even when they can’t hold it for themselves. There are countless stories of recovery to share on our website at https://buckelew.org/about/impact/ .

Support these recovery programs at Buckelew AND double your impact! The $250k matching gift challenge from the Lindskog Foundation and Sutter Health ends on December 31. Give today: https://buckelew.org/buckelew55/

12/23/2025

💗 Sometimes the smallest gestures create the biggest transformations.

We want to share a story with you about one of our clients who recently returned home after being on a psychiatric hold in the hospital. What followed is an example of how our team makes an impact in ways both big and small. Read the full story in our latest newsletter: https://bit.ly/BuckelewInBriefDec26 .

12/22/2025

✨ From all of us at Buckelew Programs, we wish you a happy holiday season! To our staff, we thank you for all your hard work and dedication to helping those in our care. 💓

12/20/2025

Recent policy changes from the Department of Housing and Urban Development are having a significant impact on housing programs across the country. In Sonoma County, this means funding for permanent supportive housing projects will be drastically reduced. Rest assured, Buckelew staff continue to proactively support those impacted with support services, as long as they would like to receive them. Learn more at: https://bit.ly/BuckelewInBriefDec26 .

You can help us bridge the gap for Supported Housing funds, and our other life-saving services, by donating today: buckelew.org/buckelew55

12/19/2025

Lucy’s path from overwhelmed teenager to confident future educator highlights how Counseling can be a powerful tool for building a purposeful, authentic life. Read Lucy’s full story at: Buckelew.org/Meet-Lucy

You can help support Buckelew’s Counseling Services, which provide compassionate, client-centered therapy for individuals, youth, couples, groups, and families. Gifts made by December 31 will be doubled thanks to a generous matching gift from the Lindskog Foundation and Sutter Health. Donate today: https://buckelew.org/buckelew55/ .

12/18/2025

📧 Buckelew in Brief has landed!

Highlights:
* Changes in HUD funding impacts local housing
* Comfort + Compassion: meals packages for our clients

Read the full newsletter: https://bit.ly/BuckelewInBriefDec26 .

12/17/2025

🥳 Please help us wish our CEO, Chris Kughn, a very happy birthday! His leadership and deep sense of purpose for creating positive change through Buckelew Programs inspire us every day. Thank you & Happy Birthday, Chris!

12/16/2025

As the Survivors of Su***de (Spanish) support group wrapped up 2025 with their last meeting of the year, they focused on how to navigate and survive the holidays after the loss of a loved one to su***de. From that meeting Mario Castillo-Guido shared three inspirational realizations by support group attendees:

* After nine years, a member believed he had fully overcome the loss—but during the meeting realized that he still had unprocessed grief.
* Losing her child just a year ago, a member shared that after a year of searching for a support group, she finally felt she found a safe place.
* First time attendee who attended “just to try it out,”—by the end of the session, was ready to commit to attending regularly.

These are just a few examples of the powerful impact of having a support group—of building community in a space where people so often are left to figure out on their own how to survive the pain of losing a loved one to su***de. Survivors of Su***de Loss Spanish support group meeting details:
🗓️ When: Every 2nd Wednesday of the month
🕕 Time: 6:30 – 8:00 PM
💻 Where: Via Zoom
🗣️ Facilitators: Hilda and Mario – Buckelew’s bilingual, bicultural Su***de Outreach Coordinators and trained facilitators

12/15/2025

🎅🏼 Shopping for the perfect holiday gift 🎁 for friends or family that makes a REAL difference? Make a donation in their name and your gift will be doubled by a generous matching gift challenge from The Lindskog Foundation and Sutter Health. It’s a great plastic-free, no-waste, exceedingly thoughful gift! Donate today at https://buckelew.org/buckelew55/ . 💜 We THANK YOU!

12/11/2025

Be a part of the next 55 years of Buckelew Programs! Your gift today allows us to continue our critical work in mental health and substance use services to our North Bay communities. Your generosity makes twice the impact with a generous matching gift challenge from the Lindskog Foundation and Sutter Health.

Donate: https://buckelew.org/buckelew55/ .

12/10/2025

Thank you to the Rotary Club of Petaluma Valley for hosting Buckelew Programs last week! We had a wonderful time with this lovely, active community group.

Address

201 Alameda Del Prado #103
Novato, CA
94949

Telephone

+14154576964

Website

http://www.buckelew.org/

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Buckelew Programs helps people with mental health, addiction, and related behavioral health challenges lead healthier, more independent lives, strengthening families and communities in the process. Founded in 1970, Buckelew Programs opened Marin County’s first 24-hour residential mental health treatment facility, which offered supported housing for six adults. Today, we serve nearly 10,000 people each year throughout Marin, Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino, and Lake counties, making us the North Bay’s largest provider of community-based mental health and support services and a critical component of the area’s healthcare safety net.