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On February 21, advocates held a community listening forum on health with newly elected Central Valley Congressman Josh Harder. Nearly 100 community members—including residents, health care providers, non-profit leaders, and city council officials—attended the forum to listen and share their health care stories

We Do Get Involved Get the Data Accessing Mental Health in the Shadows: How Immigrants in California Struggle to Get Needed CareCPEHN is excited to release Accessing Mental Health in the Shadows: How Immigrants in California Struggle to Get Needed Care. The expansion of public mental health services over the last several decades, while significant, has not guaranteed access to mental health care for all California residents, especially undocumented immigrants. Over the past year, CPEHN interviewed fifteen county behavioral health leaders representing twelve California county behavioral health departments in order to evaluate the barriers that immigrant communities face when accessing mental health care.

Who we are: CPEHN is a statewide multicultural health advocacy organization. Founded over 25 years ago, CPEHN unites communities of color to achieve health and wellness, and to eliminate persistent health inequities

Advocates held the Stockton Reducing Disparities Public Hearing on December 11th 2018 from 10 AM- 3 PM at the historic Stockton Masonic Temple to showcase programs that reduce stigma for mental health and to bolster cultural pride among vulnerable population. California Pan-Ethnic Health Network (CPEHN) partnered with Fathers & Families of San Joaquin (FFSJ), Little Manila Rising, San Joaquin Pride Center, Reinvent South Stockton Coalition (RSSC), and Sow-A-Seed Community Foundation to mobilize mental health stakeholders, residents, and other consumer groups to discuss how to end mental health disparities in Stockton. They urged institutions such as Stockton City government and the San Joaquin Behavioral Health Services to work with community based organizations and other community leaders to fully embrace a trauma-informed approach to forming partnerships. Nicholas Hatten, the Executive Director of San Joaquin Pride Center, hopes that San Joaquin’s Behavioral Health Services will participate in these discussions as they spend the next year drafting pledges and policy commitments to make our community one of the first (and the largest) areas to become fully invested trauma informed community.