The Office of Housing and Supportive Services (HSS), oversees a continuum of housing programs which serves persons who live with a severe mental illness, substance use disorder, and/or co-occurring disorder, as well as are experiencing homelessness or at-risk of homelessness. The goal of HSS is to create viable, affordable and supportive housing opportunities for Behavioral Health Services (BHS) clients. HSS programs consist of: Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) Housing, the Continuum of Care Program, Adult and Older Adult Behavioral Health Continuum of Care Graduate Program, Mainstream (AOABH) Housing and Supportive Services Voucher Program, Housing Navigation Program, Bridge Housing Program, Residential Rehabilitation Staff (L-to-R): Teresa R. Garcia, Veronica Tallant, Ray Perez, Marcy Kovacevich, Program, Interim Placement Funding, and the Short Dolores Estrada, Tiffany Brown, Faith Morrison, Lisa Row, Jennifer Woosley. Term Housing Program. Not pictured: Benito Paredes, Patricia Stancato.
Orange County Acceptance through Compassionate Care Empowerment and Positive Transformation (OC ACCEPT) Staff (L-to-R): Marco Ramirez, Syndie Kahl, Cyndy Williams, Joaquin Granado, Lu Pham, Crystal Valencia.
Adult and Older Adult Behavioral Health (AOABH) Anaheim Program for Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) Staff (L-to-R): Lisa Rothenberger, Navneet Kaur, Jennifer Portillo, Vanessa Fernandez, Maria Flores-Robles, Golmar Maleki. Not pictured: Dr. David Cheung, Julie Ngo, Joe Garcia.
OC ACCEPT provides counseling services at no cost to individuals who are struggling with and/or self-identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and/or Questioning (LGBTIQ) and to the people important in their lives. We build connections and inclusiveness through serving all age groups, all religions, and all ethnicities and cultures. We seek to provide a safe environment with acceptance and compassion for individuals to express their feelings, build resilience, be empowered, and connect with others for support. OC ACCEPT also seeks to raise awareness and reduce stigma by providing training and education about our LGBTIQ community to the population at large. The PACT program engages individuals who live with severe and persistent mental illness in a recovery process that leads to successful integration into the community. PACT participants are some of the most vulnerable and high-risk clientele in Orange County and require specialized services. The Anaheim Clinic serves the largest population consumers in AOABH and being located in this clinic allows the PACT team to be accessed by a large group of people in need. The values that guide our program include utilizing a team approach, recovery based, “whatever it takes� attitude, providing services directly to consumers in the community, family/support network involvement, and collaborative goal environment.
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