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About SJCTCH
San Joaquin County Transforming Communities for Healing
(SJCTCH) is a coalition of community stakeholders, community
based organizations, and non-profits brought together to address
the systems that have contributed to the collective trauma faced by many San Joaquin County residents.
SJCTCH promotes community healing by advancing policy and systems change, including community education, advocacy, and training service providers to implement trauma-informed care.
The SJCTCH collaborative was formed to address high volumes of untreated mental health problems, intergenerational trauma, and proper access to care. San Joaquin County has been plagued with poverty, violence, high incarceration rates, and economic disinvestment for decades, leading to extraordinary levels of trauma that has become generational.
Lack of access to behavioral health services, as well as poverty and cultural stigma, has prevented many families from securing support to deal with trauma, loss, and chronic stress. The 2019 San Joaquin County Community Health Needs Assessment identified Mental Health as one of the three highest priority health needs, with residents citing trauma as a root cause of many other unhealthy outcomes. More recently, the disparate impacts of COVID-19 have amplified toxic stress, depression, isolation, chronic and acute disease, and food insecurity across the County.
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Repeatedly, stakeholders, service providers, and healers have communicated to SJCTCH members and County leaders about the lack of a centralized information hub for trauma-related community-based resources and services, especially those outside of traditional mental health services. In response,
This website will allow people to use filters to find healing services for their specific needs and
preferences. The layout, language, and content will help reduce stigma around seeking mental health treatment. The online directory will be available to everyone across health systems, neighborhoods, socioeconomic statuses, and cultural communities. In addition, the directory can be printed as paper hardcopies.