Union Of Pan Asian Communities

Programs: Adult and older adult mental health - provide mental health services for adults, older adults and transition-aged youth (ages 18-24) including prevention and early intervention, outreach and education, crisis intervention, psychiatric evaluation, individual and group psychotherapy, case management, medication management and support employment services. During the fiscal year ended on june 30, 2017, we served approximately 8,253 clients with 24,993 visits. Ramp up 2 work is an innovative supported and subsidized employment program that aims to expand the breath of employment opportunities for transition age youth (tay) and adult and older adult (aoa) individuals with severe mental illness (smi) throughout the county of san diego. A collaboration between upac, pathways and nami san diego, ramp up 2 work seeks to promote self-determination and empowerment by encouraging employment or business development in the areas of interest to the participant. Ramp up 2 work promotes awareness about mental health and co-occurring disorders and its impact on employment to create greater inclusion of individuals with mental illness into the community. During the fiscal year ended on june 30, 2017, we served 105 clients.

child and adolescent mental health programs: children's mental health (cmh) is an outpatient, clinic-based and school-based program which provides mental health, case management and psychiatric services to medi-cal beneficiaries and uninsured, ages 5 to 20 in the central and southeast regions and north county of san diego county. The program collaborates with and provides services at 15 schools in the central and 4 schools in north county regions of san diego county. Services also include an intensive case management fsp program. The cmh program has the alcohol and drug fsp program to integrate alcohol and drug counselor to mental health services to identify and screen clients who exhibit substance use problems. During the fiscal year ended on june 30, 2017, we served approximately 354 clients with 5,522 visits. Alliance for community empowerment (ace) is designed to provide direct services to children at risk and their families and community violence response team services in response to acts of violence, intimidation, and increasing trends of violence. Ace provides services that increase family, youth, and community resiliency in neighborhoods that are hotspots for gang activity, drug use and dealing and violence. Ace program has the mental health crisis counselor to identify and screen clients who exhibit mental health issues and assist with interventions to prevent or diminish the development of mental health disorders. Ace provides services in the central region of san diego. During the fiscal year ended on june 30, 2017, we served 265 unduplicated clients and 70 pre-existing direct service clients with 148 mobile reponses and 265 community outreach hours. Multicultural community counseling (mcc) provides intensive outpatient behavioral health services, case management, psychotherapy, crisis intervention, and medication management for seriously emotionally disturbed (sed) children ages 5-20 and families utilizing a comprehensive approach that is community based, client and family driven, trauma informed, and culturally competent. The focus of this program is to provide services to underserved asian and pacific islander (api) and latino sed clients with emphasis on api. Mcc covers the central and north central regions of san diego county. During the fiscal year ended on june 30, 2017, we served 162 clients with 3,031 visits, 98 screenings and 716 community outreach contacts. Youth business enterprise - youth business squad is a collaboration of diverse san diego city heights youth coming together to design and market high quality printed products to raise funds that will aid local causes and refugee camps around the world. The youth are a combination of american born and refugees, and are committed to efforts that will support people and populations in need globally and locally. Youth business enterprise will teach youth the necessary entrepreneurial skills needed to compete in the small business world. These skills include: business formation, analyzing financial statements, product and quality control, inventory measures, and marketing. These concepts will be applied and tested through an actual printing business where the youth will be directly involved in business oversight and administration. During the fiscal year ended on june 30, 2017, we served 70 youths.

alcohol & drug treatment & recovery services - program provides alcohol and other drug treatment, recovery and education to adults and adolescents. Aod services include group counseling, crisis intervention, individual and family counseling, relapse prevention, stress management, case management, translation, interpretation and employment assistance. During the fiscal year ended on june 30, 2017, we served 450 youth and adults with 12,746 treatment visits and 2,634 recovery visits. Upac problem gambling prevention technical assistance and training (gta) raises awareness about problem gambling issues and treatment resources. Funded by the california office of problem gambling, through the national asian pacific american families against substance abuse (napafasa), free consultations, training workshops, and outreach are provided to healthcare providers, educators, and non-profit organizations. During the fiscal year ended on june 30, 2017, the project provided 71 consultations and 111 trainings, and conducted 208 outreach activities, totaling 1,862. 50 technical assistance hours to 1,965 participants who attended consultations and trainings. Upac problem gambling intensive outpatient treatment program (pg-iop) provides gambling addiction treatment for any adult resident of california. Funded by the california office of problem gambling (opg), through the ucla gambling studies program, no-cost counseling is provided to the gambler in the form of educational and process groups, one-on-one counseling with a licensed calgets clinician, and case management services as needed. During the fiscal year ended on june 30, 2016, the program served 36 new clients.

children & youth development & prevention services - provide programs and services that help prevent problems to which today's youth are susceptible, such as teen pregnancy, drug and alcohol abuse, violence, suicide and gang involvement. Services include after-school, parent involvement, reading program and violence prevention programs. During the fiscal year ended on june 30, 2017, the prime time program enrolled 1,704 children morning and evening sessions and there were 24,493 attendances. Housing counseling services - the homeownership counseling program provides individual counseling and group education sessions to raise awareness about financial literacy, fair housing, and the benefits of home ownership, as well as assists potential buyers to become well informed about the home purchasing process. During the fiscal year ended on june 30, 2017, the homeownership counseling program assisted 31 clients in one-on-one counseling for pre-purchases. There were 57 attendees at the education pre-purchases workshops. Senior services - during the fiscal year ended on june 30, 2017, the senior nutrition program provided nutrition education, as well as culturally appropriate and nutritious meals to seniors at several congregate sites in the county of san diego. The program served 10,678 meals to 1,179 elderly in the nutrition program. Community development & other - provide private and public sector clients with culturally and linguistically appropriate posters, brochures, pamphlets, curriculum and other educational promotional products. Promote the understanding of cultural differences and enhance cultural knowledge and adapting services to meet culturally unique needs. Provide college scholarships to students.