Foster Care-Human Services

At Behavioral Health and Recovery Services, Our Mission is to work together to achieve hope, healing, and a meaningful life in the community.

Our Vision is that people with mental illness and addictions recover to achieve their hopes and dreams, enjoy opportunities to learn, work and contribute to their community.

We hold Hope, Healing, and Life at the core of our values.

We vow to:
-Honor the potential in everyone
-Value the whole person - mind, body and spirit
-Focus on the person, not the illness
-Embrace diversity
-Acknowledge that relapse is not a personal failure
-Recognize authority over our lives empowers us to make choices, solve problems and plan for the future

DISCLAIMER*
*If you are in crisis, please call 911 or visit This page is not monitored 24/7 and is NOT intended for crisis intervention. This page is also not intended for treatment service.

Facebook encourages and allows for the submission of written comments. In accordance with the Federal Government’s other social media comment policies, Kern County Behavioral Health and Recovery Services has instituted the following comment policy of this Facebook page:

1. To maintain respectful interaction on this page, we encourage that all comments:

Stay focused. All viewpoints are welcome, but comments should remain relevant to this Facebook page and the associated web site ( ).

Be respectful. Personal attacks, profanity, and aggressive behavior are prohibited. Provoking arguments in a disrespectful way is also prohibited.

Tell the truth. Spreading misleading or false information is prohibited.

No spam. Repeated posting of identical or very similar content in a counter-productive manner is prohibited - this includes posts aggressively promoting services or products.
Convey a "no use" message.

2. Comments will be deleted if they contain:

-Partisan political views
-Commercial endorsements
-Discriminatory, racist, offensive, obscene, inflammatory, unlawful, or otherwise objectionable statements, language or content.

3. Records will be kept of all comments that are deleted for the above reasons.

4. We reserve the right to block or delete offenders of this policy.

5. This Facebook page is public. Therefore, all comments and likes are public.