Family Counseling
- Referrals for health care or mental health care
- Referrals for domestic violence counseling
- Family and couple counseling
- Substance abuse counseling
- Gambling intervention services
- Parent support and education
- Referrals for substance abuse treatment and anger management
- Welfare service advocate & case management
Financing Employment Support
- Credit Building (referral to Mission Asset Funds for Lending Circles program)
- Smart money education
- 50/50 match program
- One-on-one support
- Support “Kae” for bimonthly group contribution
After School Program
- After school program
- Homework help
- Career counseling
- Higher education for parents and college student
Life Skills and Parenting Classes
- Empowering parental system
- Social Skills for children
- Family communication
Family Advocacy Services
Studies & Researches
Feelings of guilt during childhood linked to mental illness.
According to an article, excessive guilt is a known symptom of adult depression, but a new study finds that such feelings in childhood can predict future mental illness, including depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder and bipolar disorder. The link seems to center around the anterior insular- a brain region involved in the regulation of perception, emotion and self-awareness that has also been linked to mood disorders, anxiety disorders and schizophrenia. The article also mentioned that children who displayed signs of pathological guilt is associated with depression, and were also more likely to become depressed adults. Washington University of St. Louis research in 2015. JAMA psychiatry, posted by Carolyn Gregoire.
Prevalence of Depression among Asian-Americans.
The dearth of population-based studies and epidemiological investigations on the mental health problems of Asian-Americans, especially since the change in the immigration laws in 1965, has led to contradictory speculations about the prevalence rates of mental illness and the general mental health status among Asian-Americans, as opposed to other segments of the population. We administered the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) scale to 499 samples drawn from a Northwestern coastal city in order to make an initial assessment of the amount of depression experienced by Asian-Americans. The investigation compared the Asian-Americans' CES-D scores with those of whites and other minority groups, examined the scale's patterns of factor loading by ethnicity, and discovered that, even with statistical controls, there exists a distinction among the individual groups of Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, and Koreans with respect to their score averages of depressive symptoms. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease: August 1984
Psychological Impact on Biculturalism.
A vital step in the development of an equal partnership for minorities in the academic, social, and economic life of the US involves moving away from assumptions of the linear model of cultural acquisition. This article reviews the literature on the psychological impact of being bicultural. Assimilation, acculturation, alternation, multicultural, and fusion models that have been used to describe the psychological processes, social experiences, and individual challenges and obstacles of being bicultural are reviewed and summarized for their contributions and implications for investigations of the psychological impact of biculturalism. Emphasis is given to the alternation model, which posits that an individual is able to gain competence within 2 cultures without losing his or her cultural identity or having to choose one culture over the other. Finally, a hypothetical model outlining the dimensions of bicultural competence is presented. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA.