Program areas at OCAPICA
Full service partnership/wraparound youth mental health programproject focus is a full service partnership wraparound mental health services to approximately 174 children, transitional age youth, and 544 members of their families. Services provided include intensive case management, counseling and support, linkage to psychiatric services, mentoring, and supportive services including access to education, housing, employment support, medical care, transportation and other services for youth and their families. The program is funded by the County of Orange, health care agency through the mental health services act (proposition 63) funds and focuses upon severely mentally ill or severely emotionally disturbed youth and their families. The program provides at least 5 days a week from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm; however, emergency services are available 24/7. Ocapica provided a subcontract to korean community services (kcs) for a total amount of $293,613 to provide services to the korean community.
Cdss stop the hateocapica was chosen by the California department of social services to be the regional lead for Orange County and riverside for the stop the hate initiative. The stop the hate funding came from the Asian and Pacific Islander legislative caucus's aapi equity funding. Ocapica manages six subcontracts with nonprofit organizations conducting anti-hate work in Orange County. This includes, outreach and education, hate crime prevention, victims' assistance, and mental health services. Funding enables ocapica to support the partner organizations as well as manage the funding.
Covid-19 community outreach and engagement services ocapica led the Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander task force comprised of 12 community nonprofit organizations. The program focused upon covid-19 outreach, education, testing, vaccination, and patient navigation services. The program and our partners were able to outreach to 918,003 community members of which 40% received additional supportive services including, testing, vaccinations, and other services such as housing, patient navigation, job development, and rental assistance. The program focused on underserved communities who were at higher risk for covid-19 including, seniors, spiritual leaders, young adults, and low wage essential workers.
Additional programsin 2022, ocapica received additional funding from government and private foundations to address the needs of the community impacted by the pandemic. This includes funding from the California department of social services, direct relief health equity fund, mental health services oversite and accountability commission, sierra health foundation, hoag memorial hospital's community benefit program, Asian and Pacific Islander american health forum, kaiser foundation, the California endowment, and the cities of garden grove and irvine. Program funding ranged from mental health services for racial trauma and healing to rapid rehousing and rental assistance.