For many Americans, mental health care isn’t there when they need it. In this webinar, we’ll hear from a leading international researcher of mental health access challenges for immigrants and communities of color. He will share a model for how taking innovative community-based approaches can make it easier for Latino, Filipino and LGBTQ+ clients to benefit from mental health care that better serves their needs. The program in California’s Solano County led to dramatic increases in the number of people from underserved communities calling for appointments and receiving outpatient care, rather than crisis services. The collaboration has caught the attention of the state and dozens of other counties seeking to make their mental health systems more equitable. In this webinar, we’ll consider what this forward-thinking program teach us about the broader effort to expand access to mental health care in underserved communities.
WHEN: April 20, 2022, from 10-11 a.m. PT / 1-2 p.m. ET
[Please click here to register for this free webinar.]
Speaker: Dr. Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola
Dr. Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, M.D., Ph.D., is a professor of clinical internal medicine, the founding director of the Center for Reducing Health Disparities at the University of California, Davis, and the director of the Community Engagement Program of the UCD Clinical Translational Science Center. He is an internationally renowned expert on mental health in ethnic populations. His applied research program has focused on identifying unmet mental health needs and associated risk and protective factors to better understand and meet population mental health needs and achieve equity in underserved populations. Dr. Aguilar-Gaxiola is the principal investigator of the Mexican American Prevalence and Services Survey, the largest mental health study conducted in the United States on Mexican Americans. He is the coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean of the WHO’s Mental Health Survey, and coordinates the work of the National Mental Health Institute surveys in Mexico, Columbia, Brazil, Peru, Costa Rica and Portugal. He also develops culturally and linguistically sensitive diagnostic mental health measures, and translates mental health research into practical information for consumers and their families, health professionals, service administrators and policy makers. He is the author of over 190 scientific publications and the recipient of multiple awards. He currently serves as co-chair of the Steering Committee of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Assessing Meaningful Community Engagement in Health and Health Care.
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