Additionally, during the month of May, RAMS is pleased to be engaged in a series of mental health activities:
-- RAMS Deputy Chief & Director of Clinical Services Christina Shea, LMFT, and API Mental Health Collaborative Program Coordinator Natalie T. Ah Soon, MPH, co-presented at the California Association of Social Rehabilitation Agencies (CASRA) Spring Conference on May 7 in Concord. Their workshop was titled "Lost in Translation: How Cultures and Languages Describe their Own Health", and described how culturally competent treatment is beyond just the language, how culture explains physical and emotional pain, and how it can only be understood within the cultural context. "Globalizing mental illness" can only lead to misunderstanding, miscommunication, and mistreatment, and Asian Pacific Islander communities in San Francisco attempt to support API communities in understanding and communicating about their pain, and hopefully lead to healing.
-- RAMS co-sponsored the 3rd Annual Asian Pacific Islander Health Forum, Northern California’s health education forum focusing on the Asian and Pacific Islander Communities, on May 7.

-- RAMS co-sponsored the annual Richmond Community Health Festival on May 2nd.
RAMS will also be participating in the upcoming NAMIWalk event taking place in San Francisco on Saturday, May 30. The 5k walk will be held in Lindley Meadow in Golden Gate Park. Check-in starts at 8:30am; Walk time starts at 10:00am. Please click HERE to register, donate, or join & raise funds, or see more details about the event. We hope you join us at the Walk!