How Is MHCD Addressing the Needs of Our Community?
- MHCD's innovative programs reduce the use of costly public services such as police, jail and emergency room visits by treating people with mental illness instead of sending them to jail.
- We offer primary medical care and mental healthcare to help consumers meet all their healthcare needs.
- Our teen suicide prevention program was created in response to alarming statistics showing Latina teens at a higher risk of suicide than their peers.
- We provide infant mental health services to help at-risk infants grow up happy and healthy and in strong families.
- Our programs for chronically homeless men and women help them get off the streets and show a 90% success rate in helping them find homes.
- Our multi-cultural outpatient clinic specializes in services for Spanish-speaking and bilingual children, adolescents, and adults.
- Supported education and employment programs have helped 60 people return to school and 113 people go back to work.
- We provide services for homeless youth 16-24 with mental health and substance abuse issues who are at risk of contracting HIV.
