Program areas at UPAC
Adult and older adult mental health services provide mental health services for adults, older adults and transition-aged youth (ages 18-24) including prevention and early intervention, outreach and education, crisis intervention, psychiatric evaluation, individual and group psychotherapy, case management, medication management and support employment services. During the fiscal year ended on june 30, 2023, we served approximately 3,639 clients with 16,108 visits. New leaf recovery center provides culturally sensitive services to adults facing challenges related to co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Program services are available to adults ages 18 and older living within the county of san diego. The program includes enhanced and specialized services for transitional age youth (tay) aged 18-25, and older adults aged 60+. During the fiscal year ended on june 30, 2023, we served 521 clients with 22,488 visits.
Alcohol & drug treatment services (aod) provides alcohol and other drug treatment, recovery and education to adults and adolescents. Aod services include group counseling, crisis intervention, individual and family counseling, relapse prevention, stress management, case management, translation and interpretation and employment assistance. The program's goal is to assist clients in becoming alcohol and drug-free. During the fiscal year ended on june 30, 2023, we served 330 clients with 27,655 visits.upac problem gambling intensive outpatient treatment program (pg-iop) provides gambling addiction treatment for any adult resident of California. Funded by the California office of problem gambling (opg), through the ucla gambling studies program, no-cost counseling is provided to the gambler in the form of educational and process groups, one-on-one counseling with a licensed calgets clinician, and case management services as needed. During the fiscal year ended on june 30, 2023, the program served 34 new clients.
Child and adolescent mental health services: children's mental health is an outpatient, clinic-based and school-based program which provides mental health, case management and psychiatric services to medi-cal beneficiaries and uninsured individuals between the ages 5 to 20 in the central and southeast regions and north county of san diego county. The program collaborates with and provides services at 15 schools in the central and four schools in north county regions of san diego county. Services also include an intensive case management full service (fsp) program. The cmh program has the alcohol and drug fsp program to integrate alcohol and drug counselors to mental health services to identify and screen clients who exhibit substance use problems. During the fiscal year ended june 30, 2023 we served 256 clients with 4,783 visits and 259 screenings. Multicultural community counseling (mcc) provides intensive outpatient behavioral health services, case management, psychotherapy, crisis intervention, and medication management for seriously emotionally disturbed children ages 5 to 20 and families utilizing a comprehensive approach that is community based, client and family driven, trauma informed, and culturally competent. The focus of this program is to provide services to underserved Asian and pacific islander (api) and latino seriously emotionally disturbed clients with emphasis on api Communities. Mcc is contracted to 4 schools in the central and north central region of san diego county and provides community-based services to all 6 hhsa regions of san diego county. During the fiscal year ended on june 30, 2023, we served 206 clients with 3,604 visits, 160 screenings an 511 community outreach contacts.community county-wide violence response team (ccvrt) provides needed supports and services to victims of and witnesses to community violence in order to mitigate the negative effects of violence in a manner that is culturally appropriate. Supportive services include, but not limited to, therapeutic support, short-term system navigation assistance, case management, crisis intervention, grief counseling, as well as linkages and referrals to community partners and other needed services. Cvrt will also provide supports and interventions that are designed to build and/or increase community resiliency and combat the negative effects of violence. Cvrt will also aim to enhance the skills of providers, schools, community-based and faith-based organizations to ensure coordinated and neighborhood response to gang/community violence. During the fiscal year ended on june 30, 2023, we served 392 unduplicated clients and 83 pre-existing direct services clients, 3,697 reponses hours, and 1,447 client outreach hours, 19 number of community events, 2,135 client briefing hours. Ace partners is a mentoring program designed to provide meaningful and impacting mentorship to two categories of youth - gang involved and at risk. Youth are screened and assessed, and then matched with diverse mentors based on the youth's strengths and interests. The activities may involve many interactions including academic, social, recreational, and employment. In addition to the youth mentorship component, ace partners also provides walk and knocks to three target areas of san diego - logan heights, city heights, and southeast san diego. Walk and knocks are led by ace partners and involve collaboration with other community agencies and law enforcement that provide resources and information directly to the neighborhoods going house-to-house of these target areas. In addition, community forums are held in each region that provides a venue for community members to discuss important matters that impact their families and neighborhood and receive support from the ace partners team and their partners. During the fiscal year ended on june 30th, 2023, we mentored 70 youth, 40 unduplicated youth, provided 36 community forums, and conducted 32 walk and knocks.
Housing counseling services - the homeownership counseling program provides individual counseling and group education sessions to raise awareness about financial literacy, fair housing, and the benefits of home ownership, as well as assists potential buyers to become well informed about the home purchasing process. During the fiscal year ended on june 30, 2023, the homeownership counseling program assisted 48 clients in one-on-one counseling for pre-purchases. There were 112 attendees at the education pre-purchases workshops and fair housing. Community development & other programs provide private and public sector clients with culturally and linguistically appropriate posters, brochures, pamphlets, curriculum and other educational promotional products. It promotes the understanding of cultural differences and enhances cultural knowledge and adapting services to meet culturally unique needs.neighborhood enterprise center (nec) provides much needed resources and opportunities for both upac clients, ethnically diverse residents and small business owners of city heights. Over 80% of employees are at-risk youth who have participated in upac's programs, and the nec allows them to gain job training and business development skills.timmy's place pizzeria and print shop is a social enterprise program operated by upac in collaboration with urban street angels (usa). Usa provides the facility rent free and upac provides training and employment opportunities for homeless youth, ages 18-25 who are enrolled in an urban street angels housing program. Youth learn to work in all aspects of the operation of the pizzeria/caf and the print shop.