
August 2025 Newsletter: Latest News & Updates from Pacific Clinics
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Myeisha Peguero Gamiño, Vice President of Public Affairs and Advocacy at Pacific Clinics, encourages self-care and to seek help when you need it. Airdate 6/13/20. Video source ABC7 Eyewitness News.
The horrifying and senseless recent killings of three African Americans – Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd – have evoked a range
With the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the portrait of how we deliver services to our children and families changed in a flash. However, as a strength-based organization, we are always looking for glimmers of light, even in the most challenging of times. So, what does success look like during a pandemic?
Since May 25th, when George Floyd died under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, demonstrators nation-wide have protested institutionalized violence against Black Americans. On June 1st , Uplift’s CEO and President addressed this issue in an all-staff email, concluding with an invitation to respond. Charee Johnson, a clinician in Los Angeles, did just that.
It is with profound empathy and compassion that we acknowledge the incredible pain our staff and community members are experiencing, most recently as
Let’s talk about the foster care and adoption home study approval process and the coronavirus. There’s no ignoring the news of the hour.
The COVID-19 crisis had a definitive onset (the first human infection) but has taken months to develop into a global scourge. And still the situation evolves: the threat to health, the secondary social and economic effects, and our efforts to fight back. Whatever the new normal turns out to be, we are on our way. But we are in it for the long run.
Uplift Family Services is pleased to announce the receipt of a two-year $4M grant from SAMHSA, a federal agency with a mission to reduce the impact of substance use and mental illness in the United States.
We are pleased to announce the receipt of a two-year $4,000,000 grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), a federal agency with a mission to reduce the impact of substance use and mental illness in the United States. As part of the grant, Uplift Family Services, in partnership with Pacific Clinics and School Health Center of Santa Clara, will form a consortium to become a Certified Community Behavioral Health Agency (CCBHA).
Our second video of the ReNew.ReFresh.Rejuviate series was created by Mental Health Therapist Brooke Dicken who explains how to cope with loss and grief during COVID-19.
We are excited to celebrate Ike Barinholtz’s appearance and $125,000 win on ABC’s newest iteration of “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire” with host Jimmy Kimmel!
Through COVID-19, Pacific Clinics’ Recovery Education Institute continues to educate the community in Orange, CA.
Through various efforts, we are helping to stop the stigma around mental, informing people on when it’s time to seek help, and also learning how some of our clinicians decompress after work.
Herman Corteza, MS, MSW, LCSW is the recipient of our 2019 President and CEO Achievement Award. Meet Herman and a team of people who share why he is deserving of this special honor.
Pacific Clinics honors generations of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who work to advance mental health and the well-being of their communities.
Myeisha Peguero Gamiño, Chief Communications Officer
mgamino@pacificclinics.org
626-254-5000
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