LCSNW’s Multicultural Counseling Services stands out in the community for its commitment to addressing the mental health needs of low-income, and/ or English-limited individuals and families for whom existing services are inaccessible due to cost, language, and/or cultural barriers.

Outpatient Mental Health and Alcohol and Drug Program
Serving the community with individual, couple and family counseling.  Accepting Medicaid (OHP), Medicare, Commercial Insurances, Sliding Fee Scale.  Offering mental health and addiction services to adults and children for over 35 years.  We have doctoral, master’s, and bachelor’s level bilingual and cultural clinicians and a bilingual and bicultural intake and reception staff.  We are state accredited as an outpatient mental health and substance abuse treatment clinic for adult mental health services, and accredited in full by the Council on Accreditation (COA) for all outpatient mental health services.  LCSNW maintains a board certified medical director and provides medication management through two medication providers who work with interpreters as needed.

Culturally Specific Programs
Our clients include individuals from all cultural and ethnic groups whose mental health and stability are comprised.  Our goals: 

1. Increase knowledge within immigrant and refugee communities on mental health, symptoms of illness and available resources;
2. Increase self-care and coping tools/skills regarding mental health through educational workshops;
3. Improve mental health functioning among immigrants and refugees through culturally specific counseling and case management.
   

Eastern European Counseling Services
The Eastern European program works to increase public awareness and access of Eastern European immigrants to culturally appropriate mental health and other needed services. It offers new opportunities or links to existing organizations to provide social support for Eastern European individuals and their families. It makes available culturally specific mental health and/or addiction services and support and improve mental health functioning and substance abuse among clients who enter treatment. This program is staffed with two bi-lingual and bi-cultural clinicians and is funded through Multnomah County Mental Health funds for culturally specific programs.

African Counseling Services
Offering culturally specific mental health and addiction services to the African community of the Portland Metro area.  This program is staffed with one bi-lingual and bi-cultural clinician and is funded through community grants.

Hispanic Counseling Services
Offering culturally specific case management, counseling and addiction services to the Hispanic community of the Portland Metro area.  We provide services in culturally mixed low income housing communities of the Cully neighborhood and in community health clinics of Washington County.

Mobile Community Counseling – Washington County
A traveling mental health counseling program for low and moderate income Washington County residents at homeless shelters, churches, and health clinics. The mobile community counseling program aims to improve access to outpatient services and insures that clients are seen promptly.

Minority AIDS Initiative
Providing culturally specific medical case management services to individuals living with HIV/AIDS from the African and African American communities.

Collaborating Partners and Agencies
Josiah Hill Clinic, Partnership Project, Project Quest, IRCO, African Women’s Coalition, Somali Women’s Association, ACCO (Pan-African Community Coalition of Oregon), PSU, Multnomah County Health Clinics, Oregon Refugee Preventive Health Project, Asian Health and Service Center, Africa House, Center for Intercultural Organizing.