Pacific Clinics employees, clients and families we serve have been impacted by the Southern California fires. For ways to give, click here: Donate to Pacific Clinics Assistance Fund
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.
Support Services offer various programs to address social determinants of health, including housing and employment coaching and placement, among other critically needed services.
Music gave me unfiltered access to my trauma and for the first time allowed me into myself. I started with expression and that led to artistry, which led me towards healing. Creativity is healing. It is why we as humans have survived.
We have many, many tools to resist trauma and we must use them. They include resilience, kindness, love, emotional support, hard work, material resources, self-care, laughter, faith and hope. Another critical tool, especially in a traumatic event of this magnitude, is trauma-informed leadership.
Pacific Clinics’ Head Start Family Child Care Specialist Emily Blackwell was awarded the Region 9 Head Start Association’s Legacy Scholarship. Emily was one of many who was awarded the scholarship to provide financial support in her educational endeavors.
Clinical Team Supervisor Vikki Charles, LMFT shares ways to begin the conversation of race with your children.
Today’s post is written by Kelly Fitzgerald, a Quality Assurance Analyst with Uplift Family Services. Her role, based out of our Sacramento office, includes ensuring
Father’s Day is a time to remember and celebrate the fathers, father figures, grandfathers, and other role models who have helped shape our lives. It
One of our agency’s core values is “We celebrate diversity and respect cultural differences.” And as such, we recognize and celebrate June as Pride Month in honor of our LGBTQ+ communities. We believe in providing culturally-competent services and programs to the diverse community we serve.
The horrifying and senseless recent killings of three African Americans – Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd – have evoked a range of feelings
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 a result
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 novel