Reducing the Fear and Stigma Surrounding Mental Healthcare
when we do Outreach before people would be so afraid to tell them that I have a mental health condition you know when they say I have cancer I have diabetes I have a hypertension they’re very open but when they have a mental illness they basically don’t want to open up um also another thing that we actually um experience but no we talk about is domestic violence and that’s something where we don’t have concrete data but we have a lot of our patients come in tell our providers that my husband just beat me up we tell them to do reporting but it’s Financial dependent on the spouse so they they refuse to do you know like filing and make a complaint what we find is it takes a long time we added our mental health program in 2008 that was actually our first program now they’re more open up to mental health they will be like I think my kid has you know um Down syndrome I think something is off with my children can you actually see if you have a therapist available so we do see that that change on the mental health behavioral health but in terms of other conditions where gambling you know alcohol um substance abuse mat HIV those are still very taboo um so I think that’s one thing my my Moto is whatever is difficult Southland gonna tackle it
Tricia Nguyen, CEO, Southland Integrated Services (formerly Vietnamese
Community of Orange County) discusses the growing acceptane of mental healthcare in the Vietnamese community as well as the taboos that persist. Watch the full briefing: https://ethnicmediaservices.org/media-briefings/how-medi-cal-transformation-is-expanding-access-to-behavioral-health-care-services/
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