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A Non-Profit California Agency with goals to provide residential and mental health
services to seniors, mentally & developmentally disabled and new immigrants.
services to seniors, mentally & developmentally disabled and new immigrants.
Message from our President
Dr. Harmesh Kumar, founder and president of SABH Foundation Inc. (South Asian Behavioral Health and Training Foundation) has been serving people in real need proving true to the saying that "a friend in need is a friend indeed". At SABH, We want to be true friends to those who need our help. In this world of individualism, it is very hard for ordinary people to find the help when they need it. It is certainly harder for people who are not immersed in the American culture to find the right kind of help and affordable services. Lamentably, some of these folks get in trouble with their native cultural conditioning thereto it conflicts with their adoptive American culture and its laws.
Moreover, I have witnessed many South Asian parents who got in trouble with existing laws by disciplining their children in the ways not approved by American Child protective Agency (CPA). Namely, they were emotionally upset that they did not know why their kids were taken away by CPA. Seemingly, many adult children of elderly parents also got in trouble with the local laws as they did not understand the scope of financial and emotional abuse issues. At SABH Foundation, we are committed to providing services in their cultural and linguistic context in coping with these and many other cultural shocks. Relocation to a new city in one's native country carries its own issues i.e. emotional, social, financial and political challenges. However, migration to a new country brings different challenges as a whole, e.g. emotional, financial, social-cultural and political pressures for one has to adapt. A single individual, a couple with or without children and an elderly with or without knowledge of English has their own individual challenges. For instance, newly married couples have more emotional pressures and sometimes they end up in domestic disputes which lead to domestic violence charges and legal issues in this adopted land that is American culture.
For instance, on the recent gathering of non-profit organizations, Dr. Kumar pointed out that new South Asian immigrants and seniors alike were lagging behind in obtaining much-needed services as they seemed inadequately unable to navigate the system for available resources nationwide.
On the same token, he also pointed out that there was some arbitrary misperception in the mainstream community that people of South Asian origin are a model and hard working class and there is no one who needs social services in their community; they'd argue everyone is a millionaire of some kind, definitely financially independent, which is not the case. Dr. Kumar, quoted an article in the India West where he described that 30% of South Asians do live under the poverty line.
Arguably, some South Asians do not understand language for everyday help or are too embarrassed to seek any, he state; "We had one South Asian family end up in homeless shelter in Martinez and one in Richmond in the San Francisco Bay Area." For instance, the incidents of suicides, domestic violence and gang involvement in South Asian community is on the rise as we hear or read stories in the media.
Dr. Harmesh Kumar, founder and president of SABH Foundation Inc. (South Asian Behavioral Health and Training Foundation) has been serving people in real need proving true to the saying that "a friend in need is a friend indeed". At SABH, We want to be true friends to those who need our help. In this world of individualism, it is very hard for ordinary people to find the help when they need it. It is certainly harder for people who are not immersed in the American culture to find the right kind of help and affordable services. Lamentably, some of these folks get in trouble with their native cultural conditioning thereto it conflicts with their adoptive American culture and its laws.
Moreover, I have witnessed many South Asian parents who got in trouble with existing laws by disciplining their children in the ways not approved by American Child protective Agency (CPA). Namely, they were emotionally upset that they did not know why their kids were taken away by CPA. Seemingly, many adult children of elderly parents also got in trouble with the local laws as they did not understand the scope of financial and emotional abuse issues. At SABH Foundation, we are committed to providing services in their cultural and linguistic context in coping with these and many other cultural shocks. Relocation to a new city in one's native country carries its own issues i.e. emotional, social, financial and political challenges. However, migration to a new country brings different challenges as a whole, e.g. emotional, financial, social-cultural and political pressures for one has to adapt. A single individual, a couple with or without children and an elderly with or without knowledge of English has their own individual challenges. For instance, newly married couples have more emotional pressures and sometimes they end up in domestic disputes which lead to domestic violence charges and legal issues in this adopted land that is American culture.
For instance, on the recent gathering of non-profit organizations, Dr. Kumar pointed out that new South Asian immigrants and seniors alike were lagging behind in obtaining much-needed services as they seemed inadequately unable to navigate the system for available resources nationwide.
On the same token, he also pointed out that there was some arbitrary misperception in the mainstream community that people of South Asian origin are a model and hard working class and there is no one who needs social services in their community; they'd argue everyone is a millionaire of some kind, definitely financially independent, which is not the case. Dr. Kumar, quoted an article in the India West where he described that 30% of South Asians do live under the poverty line.
Arguably, some South Asians do not understand language for everyday help or are too embarrassed to seek any, he state; "We had one South Asian family end up in homeless shelter in Martinez and one in Richmond in the San Francisco Bay Area." For instance, the incidents of suicides, domestic violence and gang involvement in South Asian community is on the rise as we hear or read stories in the media.
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