The Asian Community Counseling Enhancement and Support Services (ACCESS) Program is an outpatient counseling program that helps to improve the family functioning among Asian and Pacific Islanders. Our main objective is to prevent and decrease incidents of family violence through education and treatment. Our counselors assist families in becoming empowered, self-sufficient, and know their legal rights. Issues of parenting, communication, anger management, substance abuse will be addressed. Our Asian and Pacific Islander community deals with psychological stresses such as adapting to a new culture, underemployment, financial difficulties, lack of language skills, and issues of self-esteem. The skills that these families will learn add to their confidence, increase their self-esteem, assist them in becoming healthier individuals, better parents, productive citizens, and "functional" members of society.
The Asian-Pacific Islander Life Empowerment (APLE) program is an outpatient-counseling program whose objective is to decrease or eliminate substance abuse among our Asian and Pacific Islander community. Chemical dependence among Asians and Pacific Islanders is closely related to many adjustment problems. Our counseling program philosophy provides multi-disciplinary services that are clinically proven to be effective and culturally competent. Skill development and education is an integral component in addition to treatment. Among Asians and Pacific Islanders, family plays a significant role in treatment and we make treatment and education services accessible to family members of our clientele. Services include individual, family and group counseling. The Asian Association utilizes bilingual and bicultural staff and interpreters. Our programs are designed to meet the needs of each client. Our program uses a sliding fee scale, and no one is denied services based on income.