Behavioral Health Care Services

ACMHS provides comprehensive, culturally appropriate behavioral health care services for children, adolescents, adults, and their families. Our clinical staff consists of highly trained, committed psychiatrists, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, social workers and case managers who are familiar with the needs of immigrant and refugee communities. Our staff also reflects the wide spectrum of age as well as immigrant/refugee cultural status of the API communities. Services are provided at our Oakland office in Chinatown, designated public schools, and community sites.

Multi-disciplinary, multi-lingual services teams provide a broad range of services:

Information and referral of clinical resources and how to access them

Screening evaluation to determine whether mental health and/or substance abuse treatment services are needed

Interdisciplinary psychiatric assessment to establish diagnoses and formulate a treatment plan tailored to the individual consumer, with self-directed goals and action plan

Crisis stabilization to restore consumer’s safety, wellbeing and coping skills

Individual and family therapy to identify and resolve consumer’s life and relationship issues

Psychosocial rehabilitation services and supportive counseling to develop consumer’s community living skills and improve self care

Consumer volunteer group as a means to empower participants in their recovery journey

Substance abuse treatment group to motivate group members to reduce or abstain from using substances

Clinical case management to arrange for appropriate services and supports based on an ongoing assessment of a consumer’s needs

Family education on understanding and managing the mental illness of their loved ones

Medication therapy to prescribe psychotropic medication and monitor its effectiveness, with the goal of reducing or stabilizing various cognitive, mood and/or behavioral

Psychological testing to provide better understanding of a consumer’s cognitive, mood and/or behavioral challenges with the goals of developing and implementing more effective service plans to address the challenges

Employment services to prepare, support and place motivated consumers to work and be a self sufficient and contributing community member


Funding for Asian Youth Community Reinforcement is through the Assertive Adolescent and Family Treatment Grant (#T1017821) provided by:
SAMHSA
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
www.samhsa.gov