Pilsen Wellness Center

Pilsen Wellness Center
2319 South Damen Avenue
Chicago, IL 60608
(773) 579-0832 (phone)
7735790762 (fax)
http://www.pilsenmh.org/

Mission

Pilsen-Little Village Community Mental Health Center, Inc. actively seeks to provide holistic health services to individuals and families through culturally sensitive education, prevention, treatment, and recovery interventions. These services are geared towards supporting family relationships, facilitating community empowerment, and stimulating economic development.

Qualifications

As a not-for-profit corporation, P-LVCMHC employs a 90 percent bilingual and bicultural staff. The availability of culturally sensitive staff has many positive implications for effective treatment delivery. This translates into programs that appreciate how language and culture influence therapeutic strategies.

As a mental health, substance abuse, prevention, and HIV/AIDS services provider for many years, P-LVCMHC uniquely recognizes the degree to which the acculturation variable affects the relationship or therapeutic alliance between the individual seeking treatment and program staff. Acculturation, namely the extent to which an immigrant adopts the culture of the host country, has opposite ends of its spectrum, specifically assimilation and marginalization. Understanding where each client falls within this acculturation spectrum has cultural implications, which the clinician must consider when determining the most effective treatment strategies.

Our expertise rests on our ability to grasp the significance of acculturation and how life experiences are encoded in language. Facilitating the participant's ability to access the affective or 'emotional' aspect of a problem through the language in which it was experienced is a fundamental treatment component. Language and its subtleties, strongly related to identity, and expertise in treating acculturation difficulties are a hallmark of our services provision.

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