Mount Sinai Hospital Assertive Community Treatment Team
Mount Sinai Hospital Assertive Community Treatment Team of Toronto, Ontario, Canada is receiving an award for the ethno-racial specific program created to serve the marginalized, severely and persistently mentally ill ethnic minority populations who are often uni-lingual and unfamiliar or unable to access mainstream mental health services which uses a cultural competency model and a team of clinicians from similar backgrounds as their clients.

Center for Multicultural Human Services
Center for Multicultural Human Services in Falls Church, VA is receiving an award for the development and implementation of a mental health program responding to the complex mental health needs of vulnerable, low-income immigrants, refugees, survivors of war and other trauma in an extremely diverse community, the DC metropolitan area.

Family Health Centers of San Diego
Family Health Centers of San Diego is receiving an award for the work it is doing to provide psychiatry, individual and group therapy, medication management, and case management to thousands of uninsured and medically underserved individuals in San Diego at 24 service sites that provide care to over 100,000 individuals a year.

Henry Acosta, MA, MSW, LSW
Henry Acosta, MA, MSW, LSW, a nationally recognized leader, is being recognized for his work at the New Jersey Mental Health Institute where he continually strives to improve mental health service delivery systems for racial/ethnic populations. His contributions have led to the improvement of the availability of and access to and the provision of quality mental health services for Hispanics through trainings, educational materials, public service campaigns and policy development initiatives.

Asian Community Mental Health Services
Asian Community Mental Health Services of Oakland, Calif., is receiving an award for providing access to culturally and linguistically appropriate mental health services to under-served Asian and Pacific Islander communities in California’s Alameda and Contra Costa counties.

The Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic
The Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic in Los Angeles, Calif., is being honored for its First Steps Program, which addresses the mental health needs of multi-ethnic, underserved families of South-Central Los Angeles who have infants and toddlers at-risk for requiring mental health or special education services. A treatment team develops partnerships with parents to enhance positive parental attachment behavior that enhances children’s social and emotional development.

La Clinica del Pueblo
La Clinica del Pueblo in Washington, D.C., is being recognized for its Mental Health Program that works in the Latino immigrant community in Washington, D.C to de-stigmatize mental health disorders and the need for treatment. The program provides culturally appropriate outpatient mental health and substance abuse services to more than 800 Latino immigrant clients of all ages.

Central Clinic Empowerment for Success
Central Clinic Empowerment for Success, located in Cincinnati, Ohio is receiving an award for its Empowerment for Success Young Men’s Group which addresses the mental health needs of African American teens and assists them in developing strategies to reduce the risk of being a victim of a violent crime.

Alejandro (Alex) Kopelowicz, M.D.
Alejandro (Alex) Kopelowicz, M.D., of Granada Hills, Calif., is being honored for his work developing and testing cultural adaptations of psychiatric rehabilitation modalities for Latinos with serious mental illness. As medical director of the San Fernando Mental Health Center, a community mental health center operated by the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, he has spearheaded the effort to provide evidence-based, culturally competent psychiatric services to more than 200 Mexican-Americans and their families. He is also an associate professor of psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

The Family Practice and Counseling Network Behavioral Health Department
The Family Practice and Counseling Network Behavioral Health Department operates four nurse-managed community health centers that provide comprehensive primary and behavioral health care services to occupants of public housing projects in Philadelphia. Its innovative program facilitates the identification, initial treatment and referral of patients who would ordinarily lack access to quality mental health care.

Terry Reilly Health Services
Terry Reilly Health Services, of Nampa, Idaho, is being honored for its Farmworker Mental Health Program which works to increase bilingual mental health services for Hispanic farm workers and their families in rural Idaho. As part of a community health clinic that has provided comprehensive care for 33 years, the program has filled a need for culturally and linguistically appropriate mental health services.

United Indian Health Services
United Indian Health Services, which is a tribally owned and operated nonprofit agency, provides health care for American Indian residents in Humboldt and Del Norte counties in northern California. It administers mental health care, substance abuse treatment, community outreach and preventive health programs that reach more than 16,000 Native Americans and their families.

2003-2004

Carl Bell, M.D., FAPA, FACP
Dr. Bell helped establish the Community Mental Health Council in Chicago, of which he is currently the CEO. Upon learning that a city-operated mental health center in an area comprised of 90 percent minorities was going to close, Dr. Bell and CMHC took over the center's leadership and continued to provide service to the community. In addition, he led an effort that resulted in the Illinois Department of Mental Health and several other behavorial health organizations offering 24-hour emergency psychiatric care within the state. Last year more than 2000 people benefited from this service, 95 percent of whom were minorities. In 2001 and 2002, he was named by Chicago Magazine as one of the top doctors in the city.

The Project for Psychiatric Outreach to the Homeless (PPOH)
Located in New York City, this organization provides clinical services to homeless mentally ill men, women and children in Manhattan, the Bronx, and Brooklyn. Since its creation, PPOH, which has a 70 percent minority clientele, has served more than 9500 clients. Statistics show that PPOH's services work - 96 percent of clients in permanent housing remained there and 74 percent of clients in drop-in centers/outreach programs remained in treatment. In addition, 27 percent increased overall psychiatric functioning.

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