To identify, cultivate, and recognize the leadership of farmworkers and low-income families to expand opportunities in their lives.
Everyone deserves access to mental health care, but Monterey County is experiencing shortages in being able to provide these services. Many CCA clients, including farmworkers and low-income families, live in areas where they cannot access or receive care. Many also lack adequate health insurance, have no insurance and most providers don’t cover the costs for mental health services. However, the Center for Community Advocacy (CCA) is filling this need by providing access to mental health services at no cost, in Spanish, and other linguistically responsive ways. Services include one-on-one therapy sessions with a licensed practitioner and mental health support groups. CCA is providing preventative care to Monterey County’s most vulnerable residents, ensuring that services are received before mental health issues become a crisis. By supporting CCA you join in the work of caring for Monterey County’s most at-risk communities who are facing increasing threats to their mental health and well-being.
CCA provides program resources in housing, health and youth which impact all of Monterey County. Programs provide vital education and resources on tenant’s rights, preventative healthcare education, mental health support and services, youth leadership development and higher educational access and preparation. Programs are provided throughout North and South Monterey County from Pajaro to San Ardo. CCA’s target demographics are farmworkers and low-income families, however the benefit of CCA’s programming is open and available to all Monterey County residents. Currently, CCA is focusing its work on mental healthcare resources and services as Monterey County faces a severe shortage in care and providers. CCA is responding to this need by providing one-to-one therapy sessions with a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and group counseling sessions to Monterey County’s most vulnerable residents. CCA is working to ensure that mental healthcare is not out of reach to the communities it serves.
I am grateful to receive these services, they have been very helpful. Here at CCA I have gotten access quickly. I have attempted to get mental healthcare before and had been put on a waiting list. I had accessed services in 2022 at the hospital and never heard back. I needed a referral to access services and couldn’t get one. I got connected with CCA at the Sanborn Community Center in Acosta Plaza in Salinas, CA when I went there for the food distribution services. That’s where I met Norma Ahedo and got connected to CCA’s mental health services.
- Rocio Alfaro, Salinas
