
Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day: Advocating Acceptance and Action
Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day, which takes place on May 8, 2025, emphasizes early intervention and full acceptance of youth mental health needs.
Pacific Clinics delivers high-quality behavioral health and social services to advance health equity and well-being for children, adults and families. Learn more about our life-affirming services offered on-site, at home, virtual and in the community.
Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC)
Individualized Complex Care Services
Neurodevelopmental Services
Intensive Community-Based Services and Wraparound
Mobile Crisis Services
Placement Supportive Services
Prevention and Early Intervention Services
Substance Use Disorder Treatment
First 5
Hope Program and Katie A Program
Support Services offer various programs to address social determinants of health, including housing and employment coaching and placement, among other critically needed services.
Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day, which takes place on May 8, 2025, emphasizes early intervention and full acceptance of youth mental health needs.
Each year, Pacific Clinics supporters and employees across the state come together to create a joyous holiday season for thousands of children and families, and this year was no exception!
California Department of Health Care Services announced the awarding of $1.3 million in grant funding to Pacific Clinics that will support behavioral health infrastructure to address gaps in care and create sustainable improvements to better serve county residents.
Outpatient Continuum of Care (OPC) is the merging of Pacific Clinics’ Family Therapeutic Services (FTS) and Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) into an outpatient continuum of care.
Fifteen-year-old Jamie was a very athletic and creative teenager with many friends, but during her sophomore year of high school, she began to display severe depressive behaviors.
Through our Housing Program, Pacific Clinics has the capacity to provide housing to more than 300 clients throughout the state, working closely with the clinical team to offer integrated care to address mental illnesses, substance use disorders, and basic needs.
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The San Jose Hope Center’s Youth Advisory, comprised of 25 Hope Center clients interested in developing leadership skills and making a difference in their community, recently hosted a booth at the “No Estamos Muertos” community event at Cesar Chavez Park in Downtown San Jose
In the episode “Rehab” of the “Deadly Pill” podcast on iHeart Radio, Team Supervisor Prue Cooper, director of paraprofessional/SUD training & innovation, talks about the opioid epidemic, the (up to) 75 percent of people with co-occurring mental health and addiction disorders, and the effectiveness of certain treatments and medications.
After two years in the making, the new Early Head Start site located on Peoria St. in Pasadena, Calif. is now officially open.
Outlook Newspaper reports about Uplifting Communities: The 2022 Pacific Clinics Annual Celebration in Los Angeles,.
As we honor those who served our country this Veterans Day, it is a reminder that many veterans and military personnel face complex mental health and well-being challenges.
When Elijah, an 18-year-old Full-Service Partnership Pacific Clinics client, attended the recent “Hold onto Hope: Preventing an Overdose with Narcan” event, he did not know that it would lead to him saving a stranger’s life just days later.
In the Netsmart CareThreads podcast, Pacific Clinics’ Senior Vice President of Strategy, Innovation and Growth Eleanor Castillo-Sumi, Ph.D., talks about Pacific Clinic’s evolution since its inception 155 years ago.
Now, a newer trauma-informed and restorative justice-focused research models are focusing on kindness (including towards those who are doing the bullying) and a more holistic approach.
Thank you for reading the Pacific Clinics monthly newsletter which shares news about our agency and the communities we serve.
On October 15, 2022, Blue Shield of California hosted the inaugural event to celebrate the historic merger of Uplift Family Services and Pacific Clinics, which raised more than $580,000. Please visit this page to read about the event and see new videos and photos.
Myeisha Peguero Gamiño, Chief Communications Officer
mgamino@pacificclinics.org
626-254-5000
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