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Offering Hope for Recovery, Wellness and Independence

During its more than 80 years, Pacific Clinics has set new standards of care in early intervention, multicultural and integrated substance abuse/mental health services, and treatment and recovery programs for individuals of all ages and backgrounds diagnosed with mental illness.

At the heart of Pacific Clinics is our focus on ability, not disability, and concern for the total well-being of those whose mental illness or behavioral problems limit their ability to live their lives to their fullest potential. Our clients are "consumers" of our behavioral healthcare services and many are considered "members" at their various recovery sites. This perspective keeps us focused on the culture and values of our consumers and the importance we place on their voices in shaping their care. At Pacific Clinics, consumers are empowered to participate fully in their treatment plans - and in guiding the organization itself.

Additionally, Pacific Clinics focuses on the family and other personal relationships as integral to treatment and consequently touches many lives beyond our consumers. Through education, inclusion and participation, and involvement, families become important partners in the care and recovery of consumers.

We encourage our consumers to take an active role in their own recovery, community engagement and employment. We strive to build trusting, respectful and attentive relationships that define practical goals and plans and assist families in becoming effective participants in the process.

We encourage consumers to take part in:

  • Consumer-Run Clubhouses/Drop-In Centers
  • Daily activities and periodic outings of consumers’ choice that develop skills, interests and relationships
  • Consumer Committees, including Quality Assurance Boards (QABs) that provide a way for consumers to help shape the policies and programs of Pacific Clinics.
  • Other community mental health boards and committees.
  • Anti-Stigma Group -- With the help of Toastmasters International, consumers work on speaking and leadership skills as they lead campaigns to raise awareness of mental health issues among legislators and the public
  • Mental Health Worker Training Program

In collaboration with Pasadena City College and Santa Ana College, Pacific Clinics offers consumers and the public an opportunity for career training in the mental health field. Since the course's inception in 2002, many graduates are now employed at Pacific Clinics and elsewhere.

We are leaders in community-based behavioral healthcare because we seek to employ the best practices and the best people. We continue to invest in our staff through education at our Pacific Clinics Training Institute, internships
and conferences.

  • Integrated Services: Co-occurring Disorders

    We pioneered combining substance-abuse treatment with behavioral healthcare when this approach was generally unavailable or under-funded. It is now considered a best practice.

  • Also Among the First of Their Kind . . .

    Pacific Clinics’ Integrated Services, Family Education, Court- and Field-based Programs and Spanish-language groups and educational materials and more

  • Family Education and Inclusion in Care

    We offer classes, advisory board participation and other support to help families assist their loved ones on the way to recovery. Our Spanish-speaking family resource groups such as Familias Unidas and educational materials in Spanish have gained national and international recognition.

  • Examples of Evidence-Based Practice, developed or used by Pacific Clinics
    • Pacific Clinics’ Training Institute conducts widely disseminated research that develop, test and validate proven strategies for optimal care.
    • We collaborate with university-based and other nationally recognized practitioners.
    • Its intensive services for children employs UC Davis’ Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
      (PCIT) program.
    • Intensive Community Services provide 24/7 on-call staff for services to adult
      consumers at three San Gabriel Valley sites that offer Asian and Latino cultural
      and language capabilities.
    • The Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) helps adult and young adult consumers develop individual plans for acquiring skills to better care for themselves and to set goals for improving their own quality of life.
    • The Incredible Years Family Education program helps parents keep problem children out of the juvenile justice system with outpatient programs developed at the University of Washington based on 20 years of research and certified by the Office of New Juvenile Justice.
  • Field-Based Services

    Pacific Clinics can meet consumers where they are – in homes, schools, parks, hospitals, court settings, the street and community centers

  • Organizational Capacity-Building
    • Professional training and education: Internships, CE courses
    • Conferences: Multicultural; Latino; M.I.L.E.S.; Spirituality and Mental Health
    • Consulting services: research, training and advisory services for external organizations and groups
    • Collaborations and partnerships with federal, state, and regional organizations, higher education institutions, public schools, nonprofit organizations, private foundations, corporations and donors to design, implement and support meaningful programs
    • Advocacy and education in expanding and enhancing quality behavioral health services through leadership, advisory roles and anti-stigma campaigns
    • Organizational expansion with other agencies to strengthen complementary skills