Asian Community Mental Health Services (ACMHS) was established in 1974 by community providers, activists, and progressive citizens concerned about the well-being of low-income Asian & Pacific Islander (A&PI) immigrants and refugees in need of culturally competent mental health services. Our goals are: To empower Asian & Pacific Islander (A&PIs) to lead healthy, productive, and self-sufficient lives; To promote and advocate for culturally appropriate and linguistically accessible services for mental health, developmental disabilities, and family support; and To advance human achievement through advocacy, empowerment, and coalition building. To date, we have 130 multi-cultural, multi-lingual, multi-disciplinary full and part-time staff members including paraprofessionals, marriage family therapists, licensed clinical social workers, clinical psychologists, and psychiatrists. The core competencies of our staff reflect a wide spectrum of age groups, immigrant/refugee cultural status and language fluency in 8 A&PI languages/dialects: Cambodian, Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Mien, Tagalog, and Vietnamese. Each year, ACMHS serves over 3,000 A&PI clients from Alameda and Contra Costa counties. ACMHS receives its funds from government, foundations, and individual donors; in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, ACMHS budget was $7.4 million. ACMHS maintains headquarters in Oakland's Chinatown (Alameda County) and a satellite office in Richmond (Contra Costa County).
They do business with integrity and rational thinking. Overall, it's an excellent place to work, with products that are winning in the marketplace.
Great people, nice teamwork, ample supporting staff and good management are combined with beautifully remodeled facility with up-to-date technology and equipments. It's overall a very friendly environment to work in.
Unfortunately, the shrinking budget puts a shadow over this wonderful non-profit mental health organization, making it's future unpredictable and decreasing wages inevitable.