Gardner Family Care Corporation
Presentation to
Santa Clara County
Mental Health Board
Presented by
Miguel Valencia, Ph.D, Mental Health Director
Gardner Family Care Corporation
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History Highlights
1967—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
Centro de Bienestar
(Mental Health Dept.)
Gardner Family Care Corporation
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 & moderateincome 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 Health
Family & Children
Adult/Older Adult
Adult - Full Service Partnership - FSP
Asian Pacific Youth Program
Cambodian Cultural Specific Services
Learning Together Initiative (LTI) for Cambodian Families
System of Care
Juvenile Probation Department
Therapeutic Behavioral Services
Family Enrichment Program
Expanded Differential Response
Family Strength-Based Services
Intensive Up-Front Parent Skill Building Services
Superior Court Initiative
Dual Diagnosis Programs: CalWORKs, Parolee Re-Entry
Criminal Justice Programs – FSP
California Department Correctional Rehabilitation (CDCR)
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Gardner: GFHN and GFCC
Total Clients by Race/Ethnicity (FY10 -11)
Unknown/Other
4%
Asian/Pacific
Islander
7%
Black/African
American
3%
White
8%
Hispanic/Latino
78%
Total Clients: 55,865
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Gardner Family Care Corporation(GFCC)
Clients by Race/Ethnicity (FY 10-11)
Unknown 3%
Other 4%
Asian/Pacific
Islander
13%
Black/African
American
2%
White
5%
Hispanic/ Latino
73%
Total Clients: 18,948
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Centro de Bienestar-Mental Health Dept.
Estimate Clients by Ethnicity (FY 10-11)
Other 3%
Asian/Pacific
Islander
11%
Black/African
American
4%
White
16%
Hispanic/ Latino
66%
Total Clients: 3,029
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Gardner Family Care Corporation
Number of Staff, Ethnicity, Language Spoken
Ethnicity
Language Spoken
# OF
STAFF
Hispanic
White
Asian
African
America
Other
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
194
132
22
29
8
3
120
16
5
1
TOTAL
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Centro Staff Degree
Qualifications
Ph.D
M.D.
2
6
LCSW LMFT
16
7
MFTI
ASW
BA
AA
Total
5
18
39
5
100
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