Gardner Family Care Corporation

Presentation to Santa Clara County Mental Health Board

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Presented byMiguel Valencia, Ph.D, Mental Health

DirectorGardner Family Care Corporation

History Highlights1967—Members of the Alviso community with help from the Stanford Medical

School and the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity start the Alviso Family Health Center, later known as the Family Health Foundation of Alviso to

address the community’s pressing need for medical services that were then non-existent. When services expanded from Alviso into the city of San Jose,

following the needs of its growing patient base, the name was changed to the Family Health Foundation.

1968—A community group in the Gardner neighborhood of San Jose, again with the help of the Stanford Medical School & Sacred Heart Church began to

organize the Gardner Health Center to address the medical needs of the cannery workers in that area of San Jose. This population, working in the fruit packing plants shared the same demographics, race, culture & language & the

same needs for non-existent medical care as the Alviso workers who picked the fruit.

1997—Gardner Health Center & the Family Health Foundation merge & became Gardner Family Health Network, providing primary medical care &

Gardner Family Care Corporation, providing behavioral care/substance abuse services.

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Corporate Structure

Gardner Family Health Network Medical Clinics

Gardner Family Care Corporation

Centro de Bienestar (Mental Health Dept.)

WIC

Proyecto Primavera

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Gardner Corporations The Gardner Corporations are non-profit, community-based clinics,

governed by one board of directors, one management team & one vision

Gardner provides comprehensive health care services dedicated to improving the health status of low & moderate-income communities in Santa Clara County, especially its disenfranchised, poor and most vulnerable members.

Gardner’s mission is to provide high quality primary medical, behavioral and social care to include education, prevention, treatment, intervention, and advocacy services, that are affordable, respectful, and culturally, linguistically and age-appropriate.

Gardner Family Care Corporation (GFCC) is the multi-service behavioral health care division of the Gardner Family Health Network

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Centro de Bienestar Services (Mental Health Department)

• Psychosocial & psychological assessments• Crisis intervention• Individual, group & family therapy &

rehabilitation services• Case management• Education, Community Outreach, & Advocacy• Psychotropic medication support & evaluation• A 24-hour on-call response service

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Overview of Centro’s Programs

Early Childhood Mental HealthFamily & ChildrenAdult/Older Adult

Adult - Full Service Partnership - FSPAsian Pacific Youth Program

Cambodian Cultural Specific ServicesLearning Together Initiative (LTI) for Cambodian Families

System of CareJuvenile Probation Department

Therapeutic Behavioral ServicesFamily Enrichment Program

Expanded Differential ResponseFamily Strength-Based Services

Intensive Up-Front Parent Skill Building Services Superior Court Initiative

Dual Diagnosis Programs: CalWORKs, Parolee Re-EntryCriminal Justice Programs – FSP

California Department Correctional Rehabilitation (CDCR)7

Gardner: GFHN and GFCCTotal Clients by Race/Ethnicity (FY10 -11)

Asian/Pacific Islander

7%Black/African

American3% White

8%

Hispanic/Latino78%

Unknown/Other4%

Total Clients: 55,865

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Gardner Family Care Corporation(GFCC) Clients by Race/Ethnicity (FY 10-11)

Asian/PacificIslander

13%Black/African

American2%

White5%

Hispanic/ Latino73%

Other 4%

Unknown 3%

Total Clients: 18,948

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Centro de Bienestar-Mental Health Dept.

Estimate Clients by Ethnicity (FY 10-11)

Asian/PacificIslander

11%Black/African

American4%

White16%

Hispanic/ Latino66%

Other 3%

Total Clients: 3,029

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Gardner Family Care CorporationNumber of Staff, Ethnicity, Language Spoken

Ethnicity Language Spoken# OF

STAFFHispanic White Asian African

AmericaOther Spanish Vietnamese Cambodian Chinese

WIC 27 20 (74%)

2 (8%)

5 (18%)

0 0 22 4 0 1

PROYECTO 35 30 (85%)

2 (6%)

1 (3%)

2 ( 6%)

0 23 2 0 0

CENTRO 132 82 (62%)

18 (14%)

23 (18%)

6 (4%)

3 (2%)

75 10 5 0

TOTAL 194 132 22 29 8 3 120 16 5 1

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Centro Staff Degree Qualifications

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Ph.D M.D. LCSW LMFT MFTI ASW BA AA Total

2 6 16 7 5 18 39 5 100