
May 2025 Newsletter: Latest News & Updates from Pacific Clinics
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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.
Thank you for reading the Pacific Clinics newsletter sharing news about our agency and the communities we serve.
As the excitement of a new school year builds, it can also bring stress and uncertainty, especially for families striving to make ends meet. At Pacific Clinics, we recognize these challenges and are committed to making a difference through our annual backpack drive. This year, we collected and distributed more than 800 backpacks and 200 hygiene kits to children and teens across Santa Clara County.
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It’s not goodbye; it’s a bon voyage. Diane answers five questions in honor of her more than 50 years of service at Pacific Clinics. We offer best wishes to our longest-tenured Pacific Clinics team member, as she embarks on the next chapter of her journey.
Pacific Clinics School-Based Intervention Teams (SBIT) acts as a wellness concierge for students, parents and educators. Working alongside school district priorities and needs,
Diane Schultheis, a Pacific Clinics employee who began her path in 1971 at the Portals program, reflects on her time with the agency.
The Los Altos Town Crier wrote a piece on Pacific Clinics’ nonprofit transfer of assets agreement with Community Health Awareness Council (CHAC) to ensure the continuity and expansion of services.
Pacific Clinics’ Valley Palms Family Resource Center in San Jose offers services to children ages 0-5 and their families that promote their children’s development, fulfill any unmet basic needs and more.
Through the Pacific Clinics Crossroads Transitional Housing Program, Chris has found family, home and purpose.
Pacific Clinics’ Placement Supportive Services program has developed an important new partnership with War Fitness Bay Area offering individual classes, group classes and summer camp classes to clients.
Thank you for reading the Pacific Clinics monthly newsletter which shares news about our agency and the communities we serve.
Pacific Clinics and CHAC today announced an agreement that will expand high-quality support services for children, youth, families and adults in northern Santa Clara County.
Pacific Clinics’ TRUST program was recently highlighted in San Jose Spotlight as local officials announced their plan to allocate additional funding toward mental health services in the upcoming budget.
The Los Angeles Times speaks to Pacific Clinics’ Asian Pacific Family Center’s Mental Health Therapist Kevin Nguyen about mental health in Vietnamese culture.
The Pacific Clinics Head Start program adopted a campaign to increase program visibility and boost enrollment of eligible children and families in Glendale, Peoria, Pasadena, Altadena and the surrounding areas.
Pacific Clinics’ newest crisis offering, the Watsonville Community Hospital Program. helps minors experiencing a mental health crisis who land in the Watsonville Community Hospital emergency room in Santa Cruz County.
SFGate features Pacific Clinics’ Solano Mobile Crisis program in the article, “With New Phone Line, Mobile Crisis Unit Offers Nonstop Care.”
Myeisha Peguero Gamiño, Chief Communications Officer
mgamino@pacificclinics.org
626-254-5000
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