Who we are

We are clinicians, educators, and researchers who are passionate about understanding and promoting the emotional health and psychological resilience of students and scholars from diverse cultural backgrounds.

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Our history

The Center was founded in 2014 by three Boston-based physicians who recognized a tremendous need to support the emotional health of students from non-Western cultural backgrounds.

As practicing mental health clinicians, they noticed increasing referrals of Asian American students for problems like stress, depression, and suicidal thoughts, but they were surprised to find how little information existed to guide treatment and prevention.

Our Center was established in response to this gap. Our approach is shaped by our own backgrounds as clinicians with public health training, as immigrant parents, and as the children of immigrants. Over time, the group has grown to include a diverse group of stakeholders and collaborators nationwide, including educators, researchers, clinicians, parents, students, and community groups, working together to tackle these complex challenges and improve the lives of diverse students, with an initial focus on those from Asian cultural backgrounds.

What we do

 

Education &
prevention

We create high-quality, evidence-based resources and services focused on mental health education and prevention.

Research &
publications

We conduct pioneering research regarding the populations we serve and create data-driven educational resources.

Clinical consultation & referral

We consult to clinical teams and facilitate access to culturally sensitive care for those who need it.