South Asian Community Health Promotion Services
Comprehensive Multicultural and Multilingual Continuum of Care
The Hume Center’s comprehensive multicultural and multilingual continuum of care operates nine service departments out of two main, and three satellite, clinics as well as relevant on site services provided in the community and local schools. Our services are primarily performed in the Contra Costa and Alameda Counties, with some clinical services also available in the greater Bay Area.
We value professional and accessible services. Our clinicians are licensed in the state of California, and we have great pride in being able to provide services in multiple languages. We will do our best to accommodate your needs. Please let our staff know if your preferred language is not English, as we currently have staff and trainee fluency in: English, Arabic, Cantonese, Chinese, Dari, Farsi, French, German, Hindi, Mandarin, Portuguese, Punjabi, Spanish, Tamil, Urdu.
South Asian Community Health Promotion Services
Challenges are inherent in our human experience. Typical developmental challenges like the birth of a child, the first day of school, falling in love, marriage, divorce, parenting, work relationships, aging, and retirement can pose unique pressures on immigrant and refugee populations. Unpredictable challenges such as accidents or illnesses may have exponentially more of an impact than expected.
Program Purpose
When life becomes too overwhelming, it can result in changes in how an individual thinks, feels, and acts. The Hume Center offers a FREE Prevention Counseling Program for individuals, couples or families in distress. These short-term, culturally sensitive therapeutic interventions are aimed at enabling individuals to overcome challenges, develop coping behaviors, and identify their strengths. We believe that when problems are addressed early, suffering can be minimized in later life and there can be progress toward successful, personal growth.
The list below describes some of the problems individuals may experience when dealing with stressful situations that challenge their ability to cope. If you have any of the above, we encourage you to seek our support and services.
To understand, cope and heal through such challenges successfully, The Hume Center has developed the following groups and workshops that are run by our highly trained or relevantly licensed facilitators:
Are you experiencing any of the following difficulties?
- Sleep difficulties
- Changes in weight
- Feeling tired
- Changes in eating habits
- Withdrawing from people
- Loss of motivation
- Irritability
- Conflicts with family/coworkers/peers
- Crying often
- Excessive worrying
- Difficulty concentrating
- Physical aches and pains
- Loss of interest in pleasurable activities
- Memory problems
Groups and Workshops
Parents Peer Consultation Group:
A group where parents meet other parents for an opportunity to develop supportive friendships, while learning to handle their own unique situations.
Parent-Youth Communication:
The teen years have always been filled with multi-layered social, developmental and academic pressures. In this group, the facilitator encourages reflection for a deeper understanding of behaviors in an effort to create collaborative relationships between the youth and their parents. Having closer family ties enables the teenager to cope with serious challenges they are facing.
Youth Friendship Groups:
The Facilitator helps participants develop social ties with peers to foster a deeper understanding of unique challenges through a peer to peer perspective in hopes to find ways to deal with them successfully.
Elders:
The Facilitator helps elder participants share their experiences and possible unique circumstances as new immigrants in the United States that would enable them to learn and cope with these challenges successfully.
Helping the Helpers Program
Most community members have existing relationships with a variety of academic and helping organizations in the community. These can be teachers in schools, clergy at their place of worship, professionals in the social services, legal aid, social welfare, housing or any other specific agencies working with the migrant and refugee populations. There will be times when the helping person may not understand the psychological significance, or cultural component, of their client’s behavior. We are available to consult or collaborate with such helping professionals to develop better understanding of psychological pressures so they can continue to meet the needs of their clients.
Presentations
The Hume Center employs many professionals with focused areas of expertise available to customize presentations for your group. Are you interested in knowing more about promoting psychological and emotional well being? Are you interested in joining any of our groups or workshops? Or, would you simply like education on a particular topic or services we offer? Please contact us or any service listed above or if you have any specific need not mentioned here.
Staff
All Hume Center programs are staffed by highly trained and licensed professionals working collaboratively with members and trainees. We are a recognized internship site where many services are provided by trainees (Practicum students, Doctoral Interns and Postdoctoral fellows) who are regularly trained and supervised by licensed clinicians.
History of This Program
The Hume Center was established in 1993 and since then we have been offering preventative services and providing support to a diverse community. In 2010, we expanded our impact in the community by developing a comprehensive program specifically to serve the South Asian Community. This program receives generous support provided by Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services Mental Health Services Act funding, which offers community programs and services that are uniquely suited for our consumers, whether individual, family, community, or organizational in nature.
South Asian Community Health
Promotion Services
Program Manager
To Contact this Program
Call (510) 745-9151
Languages
English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Nepali and other South Asian languages.
This Service is Offered at
Our Fremont Clinic, as well as our Pleasanton Satellite Clinics. This service is also offered in the community and at various cultural, community, and faith centers.
Eligibility Criteria
Persons from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka
Services are Provided By
Staff members and trainees receiving supervision by licensed psychologists.
Preet Sabharwal, PsyD
Program ManagerPreet Sabharwal, PsyD
Background:
Dr. Sabahrwal’s mission at the Hume Center is focused on implementing and expanding prevention early intervention services for unserved and underserved communities. Dr. Sabharwal is also interested in advocacy, social justice, equity, inclusion and representation within the field of psychology and emotional wellness.
Career Progression:
Dr. Sabharwal’s clinical expertise extends to providing therapy to individuals, families, and couples within the South Asian community in Punjabi, Hindi, and Urdu. She has been actively involved in initiating conversations around emotional wellness within the Punjabi community in the Bay Area and facilitating healthier communication to foster stronger relationships. Her interests in psychology focus on breaking stigmas of mental health and increasing utilization of mental health services in the South Asian community through outreach, psychoeducation, and culturally based services.
She joined The Hume Center in 2013 as a practicum student, providing services in the South Asian Community Health Promotion Services (SACHPS) program. She continued as a Pre-doctoral intern in the Alameda County Child, Youth, & Adult Outpatient Services program, as then as a Post-Doc Mental Health Clinician/Quality Assurance Specialist in the Fremont clinic’s SACHPS program. She became the permanent Program Coordinator for the SACHPS program in 2019, and upon licensure in 2021, she became its Manager. In 2022, she initiated a School-Based program at Fremont Unified School District and became the lead for that program. Additionally, she took on a supervisory role for a newly created Mentored Internship Program for undergraduate students and expanded her role within the training department to mentor master’s interns and doctoral level practicum students in both the SACHPS program and the Fremont School-Based Services program.
Notable Achievements / Areas of Interest:
Dr. Sabharwal has a passion for ongoing advocacy work that has led to her creating the South Asian Mental Health Consortium. This is an organization that hosts the yearly South Asian Mental Health Conference. Dr. Sabharwal has presented on South Asian Mental Health at conferences across the United States and received recognition from the Asian American Psychological Association for her outstanding contributions to Asian American Psychology. Dr. Sabharwal has also recently co-authored a chapter focused on working with South Asian youth. And, in addition to her professional achievements, Dr. Sabharwal is a proud mother of a vibrant and sassy 7-year-old who keeps her busy in her free time.
Affiliations:
Founder- South Asian Mental Health Consortium
Board Member – Sikh Family Center
APA member
CPA member
AAPA member
DoSAA member
Education:
Doctorate of Psychology
American School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University, 2016
License:
PSY32751