Culture to Culture Honors Chia-Chia Chien

Culture to Culture Foundation—a nonprofit, community-based organization dedicated to promoting mental health and emotional wellness within the San Francisco Bay Area’s growing Asian-American community—recently announced that Chia-Chia Chien was selected and recognized as National Association of Social Workers Social Work Pioneer for her exceptional contributions to the social work profession.

C to C is also very pleased to announce the following news:

* A three-year summer research institutional membership program between the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley and the Harris Manchester College of Oxford University has been established and sponsored by C to C this year. It is hoped that through this sponsorship, more collaboration and partnership between CAL and Oxford on mental health and human health-care related research will be further developed to benefit our community at 

* A $3,000 scholarship has been established for the year of 2016 between CSUEB and Tunghai University in Taiwan for graduate admission of mental health-related field studying at CSUEB.

* Starting this fall, we are in a partnership with Art With Impact (artwithimpact.org) working with local high schools by using short film as a tool to explore and discuss youth mental health issues.

* We are also currently working with Directing Change (www.directingchange.org), a state-wide mental health program under Proposition 63 for suicide prevention through video contest.