Program areas at OCAPICA
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 twenty subcontracts with nonprofit organizations conducting anti-hate work in Orange County and the inland empire. This includes, outreach and education, hate crime prevention, victims' assistance, and mental health services. Funding enables ocapica to support the partner organizations, build their capacity, as well as manage the funding. Ocapica provided 13 subcontracts in Orange County and 7 subcontracts in inland empire for a total amount of $4,438,250.
Full service partnership/wraparound youth mental health programproject focus is a full service partnership wraparound mental health services to approximately 138 youth and 566 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 $360,584 to provide services to the korean community.
Ssa pre & postocapica is funded by the Orange County social services agency to provide employment support and post-aid supportive services. The project is a calworks welfare-to-work referral program. Ocapica assist previous and current calworks recipients to provide support with housing, transportation, food, hygiene, and career assistance. The program's goal is to support community members to make progress towards achieving and maintaining self-sufficiency, and remove barriers to employment. On average, ocapica serves on average per month about 500-750 referrals from ssa.
Additional programsin 2023, 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, university of California, mental health services oversite and accountability commission, sierra health foundation, hoag memorial hospital's community benefit program, heluna health, 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, health navigation, leadership development, youth services, research, and housing.