History

Eastfield Home of Benevolence founded in San Jose.

Presbyterian Mission Home founded in San Francisco.

Hollygrove founded in downtown Los Angeles as the Los Angeles Orphans Home Society.

Hollygrove moves to its current location in Hollywood.

Pacific Clinics opens its first clinic under its original name, Pasadena Child Guidance.

Norma Jean Baker, also known as Marilyn Monroe comes to live at Hollygrove. Ming Quong opens another orphanage for younger girls in the hills of Los Gatos.

Hollygrove provides residential services for abused and neglected children removed from their families by court order.

Ming Quong enrolls boys and needy children of all races and becomes independent of the Presbyterian Church.

With support from family, friends and the USO, Shirley Weiss establishes Portals, a halfway house for veterans released from the Veterans Affairs Hospital Psychiatric Ward.

Pacific Clinics’ nationally recognized training program serves bachelors, masters and doctorate level interns.

Portals establishes first clubhouse west of the Mississippi.

Pacific Clinics partners with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health and the Department of Rehabilitation to begin offering employment services.

The first adult services counseling program begins.

Portals becomes a contract agency with the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health and is selected to provide psychosocial services.

Portals launches Hodge Podge Thrift Shop, its first social enterprise and offer employment training and opportunities.

A master-leased apartment program is created to prepare individuals to live on their own in the community.

The Mariposa Transitional Residence opens to provide short-term housing within a structured, supervised environment to prepare members to live independently.

Created to address the unique needs of individuals co-occurring substance abuse disorders.

The Asian Pacific Family Center opens to serve the diverse needs of extended Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.

The new name better reflects broader services for all ages.

Eastfield & Ming Quong merge (Eastfield Ming Quong), later to be called EMQ Children & Family Services.

Pacific Clinics hosts the First Annual MILES (Mental Illness and Law Enforcement Systems) Conference to bring together law enforcement and mental health professionals to create better solutions for police officers interacting with mentally ill individuals in the field.

EMQ launches California’s first wraparound program.

Pacific Clinics begins to address co-occurring substance abuse and mental health illness.

Pacific Clinics Training Institute (PCTI) opens to provide training and education to mental health professionals, paraprofessionals, and the community.

Twin Peaks Co-Occurring Disorder Residential Program offers a 24-hour recovery program for mentally ill adults with substance abuse disorders.

Passageways Homeless Multi-Service Center opens in Pasadena to house homeless individuals while they receive mental health counseling and substance abuse treatment services.

Hye-Wrap, a school-based initiative, launches to engage Armenian youth to heal trauma from war. In addition, the Latino Family Center opens and the Transitional Age Youth program launches to serve youth ages 16-25 transitioning from the foster care system.

EMQ acquires San Jose-based child sexual abuse treatment pioneer Giarretto Institute and begins providing Wraparound services in the Sacramento area.

Transitional Age Youth (TAY) Program is initiated to provide mental health services, job training and educational opportunities for young adults 18-21 with mental illness who are transitioning out of foster care.

EMQ expands into Southern California, opening a wraparound program in San Bernardino County. Pacific Clinics opens the first Inland Empire Clubhouse Program further expanding the agency’s continuum of care.

Pacific Clinics shapes the language of and helps to pass Prop 63/Mental Health Services Act (MHSA). MHSA addresses broad prevention, early intervention, and service needs.

Hollygrove closes its residential program to concentrate on community-based mental health services.

Hollygrove and EMQ merge.

Portals, a psychosocial rehabilitation agency serving South Los Angeles, merges with Pacific Clinics.

Pacific Clinics partners with University of Southern California to launch an innovative program to empower individuals with mental illness to self-manage their healthcare.

EMQ and FamiliesFirst merge to create EMQ FamiliesFirst.

Pacific Clinics expands to support young children ages 0-5 through Head Start and Early Head Start.

Uplift Family Services helps Bay Area children and teens on a psychiatric hold receive short-term emergency assessment and stabilization instead of going to the hospital.

EMQ FamiliesFirst becomes Uplift Family Services.

Pacific Clinics hosted multiple conferences this year that reached milestone anniversaries including the 20th Annual Latino Mental Health Conference, 26th Annual MILES Conference and Asian Pacific Family Center’s 30th Anniversary Symposium.

Uplift Family Services opens its first professional parent cottage on their Los Gatos campus, serving teens in Santa Clara County.

Through the generosity of donors including the S. Mark Taper Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, and The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the completion of the renovation project at S. Mark Taper Rampart House ensures that Pacific Clinics can continue addressing urgent housing and behavioral health needs of clients.

To address the challenges of the pandemic, Pacific Clinics and Uplift Family Services secured equipment to provide services through telehealth, prepared sites to follow CDC guidelines and assembled care packages including diapers, food, household supplies and educational toys for families and children.

As part of a $4MM grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Pacific Clinics, in partnership with Uplift Family Services and School Health Clinics of Santa Clara County, will form a consortium to become a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC).

The sABA (Specialty Applied Behavior Analysis) program serves those with autism and CFT (Child and Family Team) facilitates meetings for families with Sacramento County Child Protective Services.