AAPI Nexus: Policy, Practice and Community

This resource paper examines the challenges faced by a mental health contract provider and a federally qualified health center in Long Beach to integrate these two systems of care to provide better health care to Cambodians. The issues of disparity, stigma, and cultural barriers prevalent in this underserved community were identified and strategies to address the barriers were implemented. The resulting product illuminates many of the challenges that integrated care presents to ethnic communities.