Qualitative evaluation of mental health services for clients with limited English proficiency
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Qualitative evaluation of mental health services for clients with limited English proficiency
BACKGROUND To meet federal requirements under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, the state of California instituted policies requiring that comprehensive mental health services in native languages be made available to limited English proficiency (LEP) populations when concentrations exceed "threshold" levels. METHODS This paper builds on promising results from quantitative evaluations by repor...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Mental Health Systems
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1752-4458
DOI: 10.1186/1752-4458-7-27