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NEWSLETTER
Director’s Message
OCTOBER 2022
Peer-to-Peer
Wayne Chan
Dear OC Health Care Agency
Peer-to-Peer recipient Wayne Chan, Behavioral Health Clinician II, is
(HCA) Team,
described by his colleagues at the Mental Health and Recovery Services (MHRS) Aliso Viejo/South Clinic as “great at his job,” and, “always available
From the COVID-19 front, we
for questions from staff and clients,” and, as someone who goes “above
are better equipped to manage
and beyond,” in all he does. Wayne is the designated Substance Abuse
the pandemic with vaccines,
Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) clinician at the clinic, and
therapeutics and public health
he returns the compliments to his colleagues, “I enjoy the comradery of our
prevention approaches,
clinic as we all come from different places, backgrounds, and experiences
evidenced by a steady decline in
and we support each other both at work and in our personal lives. It can be
transmission. While COVID is not
challenging to balance all the job duties we have, but
going to disappear, I would like
with our great team we always make it work.”
to take this opportunity and say, “THANK YOU!” to everyone in the
Wayne is a Licensed Marriage and Family
HCA for all you have done during
Therapist and has been with the OC Health
the pandemic and to get us to
Care Agency (HCA) for 14 years. He’s been in
this point. There are not enough
his role as the SAMHSA clinician since starting
words to describe and thank
at the Fullerton Clinic his first year at the HCA,
you for your dedication, commit-
before joining South Clinic where he’s been
ment, and long hours put in, to
since. Wayne said his main focus is to provide
serve our community and each
treatment for consumers with co-occurring
other. The virus impacted us all.
disorders through individual and group
As an Agency, we lost colleagues
therapy services. “We consistently create and
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provide a safe environment where consumers can trust and open up about their struggles with mental illness and recovery.
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I am very proud of our work and enjoy seeing the progression and process of recovery with consumers as we build . . . continued on page 3