Ricardo Graduated from the California State University, San Francisco in 2001. 

He spent five years working with the Conservation Corps in the California back country supervising young adults working on labor-intensive restoration projects. While with the Conservation Corps, Ricardo developed and ran a challenge-oriented wilderness program. 

 

After leaving the Conservation Corp Ricardo spent five years working in mental health with the University of California, San Francisco. During his time at UCSF Ricardo also worked with middle school-aged children as a day treatment therapist with Seneca Center in Bay Point. It was at this time, while leading a hike up Mt. Diablo for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Ricardo was inspired by a conversation with a mother who's child had recently returned home from a  residential after care center, and had been to a therapeutic wilderness program.  It was from this conversation that Ricardo decided to embark on creating Coyote Coast Youth and Family Counseling, LCSW INC.

 

Coyote Coast is a transitional program for youth who have experienced wilderness programs and residential treatment aftercare.  With much hard work and success Coyote Coast is in its 12th year and still servicing families with children who are at risk of being sent to Wilderness treatment programs, and those that are returning home.

 

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