Merced Lao Family Community, Inc.

The SEACAP Program provides mental health outpatient services. SEACAP was developed to incorporate cultural understanding and individualization to ensure the effective treatment of the unique mental health issues of the SEA community. SEACAP consumer issues include PTSD due to their war and refugee experience, and stress and depression from poor adjustment and coping skills. The SEACAP program aims to reduce risk factors of alienation, and family problems stemming from mental health and adjustment stressors.

This program provides services through a client-directed care plan. The program provides individual and group services, cultural practices (shamans, natural healing practices), skills-building instruction to promote wellness, parenting education, and family intervention. There is also support through a weekly Peer Support group where consumers are able to socialize and learn coping skills. We also provide transportation to consumers in order for them to be able to access our services. This program aims to improve client's knowledge of their symptoms and how to cope with them in an effective manner incorporating both their culture and the American culture.