In Partnership with the Psychiatric Foundation of Northern California and the Harm Reduction Therapy Center

Mission Neighborhood Resource Center (MNRC) partners with the Psychiatric Foundation of Northern California (PFNC) and the Harm Reduction Therapy Center (HRTC) to provide on-site harm reduction and bilingual individual and group-level psychotherapy and psychiatric services to homeless immigrants living with episodic and ongoing mental illnesses. A particular focus is chronic drug and alcohol users among this population, who have been traditionally excluded from mental health and drug treatment services.

The collaborative evaluation project has the potential to provide crucial outcome data that measure life stability, psychiatric symptoms, drug use and related negative effects within this diverse and difficult to serve population. By utilizing a collaborative and participatory approach to the design and implementation of the comprehensive evaluation of the mental health services offered at Mission Neighborhood Resource Center, we aim to increase the capacity at this agency and their partnership with Psychiatric Foundation of Northern California and the Harm Reduction Therapy Center. The collaborative approach and subsequent findings may also be of great use to other service providers and scholars working on issues of homelessness, mental health services, substance abuse and HIV transmission among marginalized immigrant populations in the United States.