For the past six months, since Dr. Clayton Chau took over as the director of the Orange County Health Care Agency, his public remarks have largely centered around explaining and defending the county’s medical response to the coronavirus pandemic. But in a Oct. 22 virtual forum “ Let’s Talk About Mental Health in the Cambodian & Vietnamese Community,” hosted by …
This is the third story in a three-part TimesOC series “Improving Healthcare Access for Cambodians and Vietnamese,” supported by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism 2020 California Fellowship. “We’re culturally and linguistically aware of our Cambodian population and the different connotations and context needed in order to explain such matters.” The County of Orange Social Services Agency in an …
This is the second story in a three-part TimesOC series “Improving Healthcare Access for Cambodians and Vietnamese,” supported by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism 2020 California Fellowship. The need for mental health services in the Vietnamese community is high, Hoang said. “That further escalates because law enforcement here are trained to be in control and not understanding the …