
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.
This month we honor and celebrate Latinx/a/o Heritage Month and the many contributions and achievements of Latinos in the U.S. and beyond.
Pacific Clinics’ Neurodevelopmental Services Program (NDS) opened a new site in Upland, Calif., called the Center for Divergent Connections, which will provide a variety of services to neurodiverse individuals.
In the article “Teams Help Prevent Suicide,” Dixon Independence Voice speaks with Associate Director Jennifer MacKinnon on receiving the proclamation for National Suicide Prevention Week in Dixon and her work with Pacific Clinics’ mobile crisis program.
Thanks to our annual Backpack Drive, Pacific Clinics was able to provide more than 800 backpacks and 400 hygiene kits to children and teens in Santa Clara County, giving them the certainty of knowing they’ll have the essentials they need to have a successful, fulfilling school year ahead.
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Say Goodbye to sABA and Hello to the Neurodevelopmental Services program (NDS). Learn more about this program at Pacific Clinics.
Pacific Clinics’ Therapeutic Foster Care Team is actively recruiting resource parents – often referred to as foster parents – to partner with our agency as caregivers for youth and young adults in Solano County.
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The Mountain View Voice covered Pacific Clinics’ new TRUST program, in partnership Momentum for Health and Santa Clara County, which will bring much-needed mobile mental health crisis services to north Santa Clara County.
The United States launched the 24/7 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline this month. The Lifeline supports individuals and their loved ones experiencing thoughts of suicide, mental health or substance use crisis or any other kind of emotional distress.
In the San Jose Spotlight article, “Santa Clara County launches mental health crisis hotline,” Clinical Director Karen Meagher discusses the importance of the continuum of care following a mental health crisis call with the mobile crisis team.
July is Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Month and was established in 2008 to improve access to mental health services and promote awareness of mental health challenges among Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC).
Camp Hollygrove, based at our Hollygrove campus in L.A., turns summertime into an opportunity to help children and teens replace the trauma in their life with new, meaningful memories. Each week carries a new theme, and after a two-year hiatus, the team was excited to kick off the summer with Olympics Week.
The Bay Area Region unveiled its newly remodeled professional parent cottage with a virtual ribbon cutting. This cottage is located on Pacific Clinics’ Los Gatos campus and is used to provide free housing for professional parents as they care for high-risk children and teens in foster care.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) Pride Month is celebrated annually in June. We want to honor those who have fought for inclusivity and equality for the community, as well as celebrate resilience and hope for a better future.
In June of 2021, Congress passed legislation to establish Juneteenth as a federal holiday in the United States, which was a long overdue and overlooked recognition of American history.
Myeisha Peguero Gamiño, Chief Communications Officer
mgamino@pacificclinics.org
626-254-5000
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