Asian Pacific Counseling & Treatment Centers

Services

APCTC Provides services throughout  Los Angeles County within the following practice areas:

Children and Family Outpatient Services
Children and Family Services provide mental health services to children and youth from 3 years old to 21 years old through a team of bilingual and bicultural staff. A primary mission is to treat the at-risk and/or the severely emotionally disturbed children at an early stage in order to minimize impairment and permanent dysfunction. The services include psychiatric evaluation, psychological testing, and assessment, medication treatment, crisis intervention, individual and family therapy, art therapy, play therapy, sand-tray therapy, problem solving/social skills building groups for children and probation youth, child abuse prevention, parenting class, community education, workshops and seminars to raise awareness of mental health and child development.

Primary Intervention Program and School-Based Program
Children and Family Outpatient Services extend its services to the school-sites in the Los Angeles County. Our mental health professionals provide psychiatric assessment and counseling services at various elementary, middle, and high schools. Our staff work closely with school personnel to enhance the child well being, to prevent impairment, and to resume their functional level.

Family Support Program
This program is funded by the Department of Children and Family Services to provide after-school homework tutoring and computer class for children from 6 years to 12 years old.

Adult Outpatient Services
The program offers assessment of the patient's psychopathology and intervention with multiple modalities of psychosocial treatment which include medication support, crisis intervention, individual and group counseling, case management, family support group, community education/outreach and referrals.

The clients are admitted to the clinic through various referral sources such as self, family, hospitals, schools, churches, or community organizations.  When a client is referred to the clinic, s/he will be assessed and given an appointment for the initial intake or a referral to other appropriate facilities.

Adult Day Rehabilitation Program
The APCTC Day Rehabilitation Program focuses on the unique needs of Asian Pacific Islanders suffering from mental illness.  Our services are provided for mental health clients 'consumers' who lack the skills needed in order to live independently, manage their own money, and use supportive community resources.  Through the program, consumers also learn to manage their symptoms and in turn reduce the need for hospitalization.  Our program is consumer-driven.  We value the suggestions of our consumers and incorporate these suggestions in our program.  In addition, we believe that consumers contribute a great deal to each other's rehabilitation.

Adult Targeted Case Management Services
This program offers intensive case management services to the most severely mentally ill clients identified by the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health.  Our intensive case management services include assessment and advocacy to move clients from locked facilities into community.  Our case managers work closely with other agencies and family members of the clients to provide a smooth transition to open community to reduce hospitalization and decompensation. 


Community Living Program-"Changing Lives of People One Step at A Time"
This program provides a 16-week independent living skill training to our clients who are ready to return to the community living.  Some of the classes offered are Medication Management, Sex, Health, Safety, & Wellness, Stress Management & Relaxation, and Housing, Tenant's Right & Entitlement.  After the completion of all classes, a graduation ceremony is held, and a diploma will be given to those who have demonstrated their ability and skills in independent living.  

Vocational Rehabilitation Program
This program is funded by the State Department of Rehabilitation to provide vocational assessment, job preparation and placement, post placement support for our clients to make smooth transition to employment. The program mission is to assist clients to overcome stigma that mentally ill persons should not or can not work because they are too ill or have no work experience. The vocational counselors help clients bring out their strength, alleviate the fear of employment, and educate them with up-to-date information on their welfare benefits, which may be affected as a result of the job placement.

CalWORKs Program
APCTC provides mental health services to CalWORKs recipients who are facing personal, family challenges, or barriers to employment.  The program is designed to assist CalWORKs recipients in overcoming these barriers and to help them transition from welfare-to-work as well as to retain long-term employment.  Mental health treatment services include evaluation, individual/family/group therapy, case management, treatment and rehabilitation services, employment counseling, provision of community service jobs, or other appropriate services.

Shelter plus Care Program
This is a federally funded program administered by the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA). Since 1993, the program provides housing assistance to our homeless mentally ill clients by subsidizing a portion of monthly rent and on-site case management. The clients must meet the following qualifications for the assistance: 1) homelessness 2) mental illness 3) low-income. 

Asian Pacific Consultation Program (APCS)
APCS is developed by our licensed clinicians to meet the needs of individuals who seek help with emotional and psychological problems. Our qualified bilingual and bicultural staff can help with the following areas:

1. Family:  marital problems, separation, divorce, domestic violence, and parenting issues.
2. Individuals:  cross-cultural adjustment, aging issues, difficulty at work, difficulty with relationship.

APCS clinicians also work with various referrals from Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and private insurance companies for culturally sensitive counseling services that are not available at the mainstream mental health service providers.

Past Services

• Project REBOUND - Civil Unrest:  Funded by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide critically needed post-disaster services to the victims of the Los Angeles civil unrest of April, 1992.
• Project REBOUND - Northridge Earthquake:  Funded by FEMA to provide crisis counseling and disaster preparedness, community education, and outreach services to victims of the Northridge earthquake in 1994.
• Mobility Plus:  Funded by Housing and Urban Development through Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles in 1995 to assist low-income families who are victims of Northridge earthquake to make transition from Section 8 temporary housing to unsubsidized housing.
• Earthquake Related Services:  Funded by the City of Los Angeles, Community Development Department from 1995 to 1996 to provide disaster preparedness training to mentally ill clients and to help the earthquake victims establish self-sufficiency.
• Title XX:  Funded by the Department of Family and Children Services to provide earthquake preparedness education and after-school computer lab and tutoring services to children who are impacted by Northridge earthquake.
• California Community Foundation:  Funded by California Community Foundation in 1996 to provide a school-based mental health counseling at school sites in San Fernando Valley.
• Section 8 Housing Program:  Funded by Housing and Urban Development through Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles to provide housing assistance to the homeless, mentally ill clients.