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Samaritan House Financial Resources

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The Journey of Samaritan House

Could you use a financial boost? Have you needed financial assistance in the past just to get by? Do you struggle to make ends meet? Would an extra $500 or $1000 come in handy to deal with financial challenges?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, consider applying for The Journey at Samaritan House.

The Journey program will help you and your family improve your financial future. Work with a personal financial coach for eight (8) months and receive detailed financial health assessments. Also attend monthly webinars and financial trainings, while earning cash and incentives along the way!

For more information, call (650) 294-4323 or email feprogram@samaritanhousesanmateo.org.

Take Control of Your Finances!

This program is an easily accessible and fun way for you to increase yoru personal finance skills. Must have internet access and an email to participate.

Learn more at bit.ly/shfirststep. Sign up at (650) 294-4323 or email feprogram@samaritanhousesanmateo.org.

BHRS Director’s Update – November 2022

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 Please see the latest issue of the Director’s Update from BHRS Interim Director, Lisa Mancini. 

 Topics include:

  • Free Tech Support for Clients+
  • Help Name the Future Cordilleras Behavioral Health Campus
  • 2022 Employee Equity Awards – Yolanda Booker, Regina Moreno, and Ziomara Ochoa
  • Congratulations – Peter Dell, MD; Brenden Scherer, MD
  • Contractors’ Association Spotlight: Daly City Youth Health Center Takes a Systemic Approach to Healing Pain in the Community
  • CalAIM Corner:  CalAIM Implementation Plan

Past issues can be found here.

BHRS Director’s Update – October 2022

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Please see the latest issue of the Director’s Update from BHRS Interim Director, Lisa Mancini. 

 Topics include:

  • Ravenswood Wellness Partnership
  • NAMIWalks in San Mateo County
  • Congratulations – Clara Boyden, 2022 Steve Kaplan Award Recipient
  • Join the MHSA Three-Year Planning Workgroup
  • County Supports Suicide Prevention Month
  • Contractors’ Association Spotlight: Voices Of Recovery San Mateo County
  • CalAIM Corner:  CalAIM Opportunities

Past issues can be found here.

*NEW* On-Call Technical IT Support

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*ANNOUNCEMENT* New On-Call Tech Support information for Consumers/Clients and Family Members which includes technical IT support for quick-fix challenges. Telephone, Videoconferences and desktop sharing is available.  You can schedule a technical support session with a Peer Tech Specialist.

Book an appointment at https://bit.ly/tech-support-pb

Pride Center MHSA Project Outcomes

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The San Mateo County Pride Center opened it’s doors in July 2016 as a Mental Health ServicesAct (MHSA) Innovation (INN)-approved five-year pilot project. Since then, the Pride Center has expanded the network of services available to the LGBTQ+ community, promoted visibility and belonging, and filled gaps in culturally responsive mental health treatment services.

According to the San Mateo County LGBTQ Commission’s 2018 countywide survey of 546 LGBTQ+ residents and employees, fewer than half (43%) of adult respondents felt that their mental health care provider had the expertise to care for their needs. Among LGBTQ+ youth who responded to the survey, three-quarters (74%)
reported that they had considered harming themselves in the past 12 months, and two-thirds (65%) did not know where to access LGBTQ+ friendly health care.

The MHSA INN component allows counties to introduce and evaluate mental health approaches that have not been tried elsewhere, to develop new best practices. The San Mateo County Pride Center was developed as an INN project since the U.S. has no other model of a coordinated approach across mental health, social, and psychoeducational services for the LGBTQ+ community.

The Pride Center offers services in three components:

  1. Social and Community Activities: outreaches, engages, reduces isolation, educates, and provides support to high-risk LGBTQ+ individuals through peer-based models of wellness and recovery that include educational and stigma reduction activities.
  2. Clinical Services: provides mental health services focusing on individuals at high risk of, or with moderate to severe, mental health challenges.
  3. Resource Services and Training: serves as a hub for LGBTQ+ resources. Hosts trainings and events related to sexual orientation and gender identity, and on providing culturally affirmative services.

In FY 2020-21 alone:
• 3,000+ participants served through clinical, social, training, and drop-in services
• 169 unique individuals received clinical services
• 2,700 hours of clinical services were delivered
• 359 community members served across 10 different peer support groups
• 300+ LGBTQ+ older adults were regularly contacted via emails, calls, and support groups

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