The Counseling Center at LHI
Mental Health
Outpatient Clinic: The core purpose of
the Counseling Center is to enhance the quality of life and improve the mental
health status of Latinos. Our staff works within the client's cultural value
system and acknowledges the importance of family and community, personal
respect, responsibility and dignity, and a strong spiritual life.
Oasis Substance Abuse Outpatient Clinic
This Clinic provides substance abuse clinical case management and treatment
to Latinos. Services include individual counseling, group treatment,
psycho-education, case management and referrals. The overall goal of Oasis is to reduce the
prevalence of substance abuse and addiction in the Latin American community.
The clinic focuses particularly on the impact of substance abuse on HIV
transmission.
“Mi Familia” Home-Based Services
This program offers
culturally and linguistically competent therapeutic and case management
services to Latin American and other minority families. Mi Familia provides
intensive family-focused, strength-based interventions to families in
transition or in crisis.
The
Proyecto Cometa Latino Child Trauma Stress
Initiative
This service aims at improving access to and quality of
treatment and intervention services for Latino children and their families
living in the greater Boston area that have been impacted by traumatic events.
LHI implements and evaluates the Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
(TF-CBT) to meet the treatment needs of Latino children and adolescents. The program will also increase
knowledge of this evidence-based intervention among mental health providers
that serve Latinos in Boston and other areas of Massachusetts.
Proyecto Nuevo
Encuentro
Offers
integrated counseling services to Latino men and women with the co-morbidity of
substance abuse and trauma and who are at high risk for HIV infection. The
program helps participants establish and/or maintain their sobriety, improve
their capacity to manage trauma-related symptoms, and reduce behaviors that put
them a high risk for HIV infection. The program uses the Seeking Safety
treatment model that jointly treats substance abuse and trauma-related
disorders. The intervention model is characterized by its emphasis on safety,
its flexibility, its humanistic themes, its attempt to make CBT accessible to
patients, its focus on case management, its detailed materials available in
Spanish, and its attention to process issues.