Chinatown Service Center

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2011 to Jun 30, 2012

Signed

May 15, 2013

Return Version

2011v1.5

Gross Receipts

$6,946,417

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

SOCIAL / SENIOR SERVICESThe Family and Community Services Department houses CSC's social and community services programs which were the first services established by CSC. Social and Senior Services in-depth, integrated, holistic, multi-sectoral case management assistance. The staffs are cross-trained on all agency programs and services, community resources, and government benefits, in order to better address gaps in the County level provision of case management services. Social and Senior Services also provides many vital services to the community: * Outstation Services - To ensure better access to government information and application processing, the Social Services Department regularly serves as an outstation to the Social Security Administration and the Department of Public Social Services. * Elderly Services - Another service that the Social Services Department provides is the ESCAPA (Elderly Services Consortium for Asian Pacific Americans) program. This program offers respite to primary caregivers of the elderly, housekeeping and personal care to the elderly and care management to the elderly population.* In-home Services - In-home services training program is a training program for monolingual Chinese older adults to gain employment in in-home and adult day health care centers.

Activity 3

BEHAVORIAL HEALTH DIVISIONThe professional and caring counselors of CSC's Behavioral Health Division are committed to providing linguistically and culturally relevant counseling services. Services provided include individual, family, couples, and anger management counseling; life skills training groups for children and youth; crisis intervention; parent education; domestic violence/batterer's intervention treatment; case management; and behavioral health education workshops.In 2010, over 205 individuals benefited from the Center's Behavior Health Department. The Center's Behavior Health Department was established to provide culturally and linguistically relevant and innovative mental health services to address the psychological and emotional needs of the immigrant and refugee children, youth, adults and families. Direct mental health services include individual, group, marital, family counseling; domestic violence perpetrator education counseling groups, crisis management; and case management. Behavior Health staff are master level clinical social workers and marriage and family therapists supervised by a licensed clinical social worker and/or licensed marriage & family therapist. Community and school outreach including child abuse education and prevention activities such as workshops on parenting, family life, mental health and wellness, and school-based self-esteem/life-skill groups. The Program provides services from local schools, working with various school districts, as well as from the Center's facilities.

Filer

EIN

95-2918844