EMASS (Elder Multicultural Access and Support Services)
Funded by the County of San Diego

EMASS provides culturally appropriate, peer-based, outreach and engagement services to 800 seniors in San Diego County’s Filipino, Latino, African American and African refugee communities. Services are designed to address mental health issues, provide prevention activities, and increase access to mental health care.

Services will be provided countywide, with the main office at 200 North Ash in Escondido, and a satellite office location in downtown San Diego. EMASS Newsletter

Positive Solutions
Funded by the County of San Diego

Positive Solutions program provides short-term prevention and early intervention mental health services to 400 homebound seniors, ages 60 and over. Using the Program to Encourage Active and Rewarding Lives for Seniors (PEARLS), seniors receive help addressing feelings of isolation, decreasing risk factors for depression and suicide, and improving access to mental health care and support.

Services will be provided in downtown San Diego at the Senior Community Center located at 525 14th Street, and in North County at 920 West San Marcos Blvd., San Marcos.

Counseling Treatment Center
Funded by the County of San Diego

Five hundred seventy monolingual and Limited English-Proficient (LEP) Asian & Pacific Islander (API) adults and 22 transitional age youth (ages 18-24) with mental illness receive assistance in increasing their knowledge of the effects of post traumatic stress, reducing social isolation and stress and increasing English proficiency. Job development, counseling and placement are provided to 25 API adults with mental illness.

Counseling Treatment Center
5348 University Avenue, Suites 101 & 120
San Diego, CA 92105
Phone: 619 229-2999 Fax: 619 229-2998
Mental Health Services Director: Dixie Galapon Ph.D., CCGC

Eastwind Club House
Funded by the County of San Diego

Peer-led Clubhouse provides wellness, traditional arts, music and cultural celebrations, ESL, citizenship and computer classes. A 12-week curriculum on mental health issues is provided for Vietnamese and Arabic-speaking family members and other caregivers who have loved ones with mental illness.

East Wind Clubhouse
8745 Aero Drive, Suite 330
San Diego, CA 92123
Phone: 858 268-4933 Fax: 858 268-0244
Club House Director: May Vang B.S.

Mental Health Education
In partnership with the National Alliance for Mental Illness San Diego (NAMI SD)

UPAC translated NAMI’s Family to Family 12-week curriculum into Vietnamese and Arabic and conducts courses for Vietnamese and Arabic-speaking family members and other caregivers who have loved ones with mental illness.