"The Wellness in Action model proves that we can increase exponentially the chances of unserved or underserved communities to get sustainable employment in the behavioral and mental health field, where their unique skills are recognized and validated.

In fact, the participants in the Wellness in Actions Project move on to become culture brokers, mediating the relationships between their community and the American system. Being trained and having the skills to mediate this interaction is absolutely necessary if we want to optimize services, because on one hand many of these communities have had little or no exposure to the western mental health field. And on the other hand, the American mental health system is very much transaction and business oriented, and it comes sometimes in contradiction with the communities’ values, beliefs and expectations.

Needless to say, all these result not only in new jobs, but mostly in huge savings and a better distribution of funds.”