Community Health for Asian Americans (CHAA)

Outreach and Prevention - Child/Youth and Adult: CHAA has been active in the community through advocacy, community readiness and awareness campaigns, workshops and outreach in the communities we serve. We offer the core of a system of care for Asian Pacific Islander youth and their families by addressing critical issues in multiple life domains with integrated interventions across the entire wellness continuum, to strengthen the overall care structure for participating youth and their families, and to engage youth participants in positive youth development that evolves over the course of the initiative into homegrown advocacy. CHAA prevention services include: mental health, alcohol/drug prevention, domestic violence, a community mobilizing/organizing, and youth development. Total clients served - 4,080.

Treatment Child/Youth and Adult: CHAA delivers a full range of mental health services provided by a multi-lingual and multi-disciplinary staff that includes psychiatrists, psychologists, licensed clinicians, masters-level clinicians, and other mental health specialists. Our treatment philosophy is strength based and community based. We offer crisis intervention, comprehensive diagnostic evaluation, medication management, short and long term counseling and psycho educational groups, case management to address a wide range of mental health problems including depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder, chronic mental illness and somatic disorders, Total clients served - 180.