SAN BENITO COUNTY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH

We are a Behavioral Health Department in San Benito County, providing mental health and substance use disorder services. We are small compared to many of our neighbor counties but we have made major changes to our mental health services delivery system through the Mental Health Services Act. San Benito County can offer an unsurpassed quality of life, temperate year-round climate, remarkable variety of landscapes, and proximity to a myriad of recreational, educational and cultural opportunities of the San Francisco Bay Area. San Benito County is a wonderful place to work and call home. San Benito County covers approximately 1,396 square miles ranging in elevation from near sea level to over 5,000 feet. Our County has a population of over 56,000, and is bordered to the north by Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties, by Merced and Fresno counties to the east, and by Monterey County on the west and south. Hollister, the county seat, is approximately 95 miles south of San Francisc...