Community Human Services
Marlene Garcia, MSW, has extensive experience in mental health and social services, currently serving as a Mental Health Clinician at Community Human Services since October 2022. Prior roles include Case Manager and On-call Advocate at Monarch Services-Servicios Monarca from 2017 to 2022, where Marlene provided assessment, crisis intervention, and client advocacy. Additional experiences encompass a School Social Work Intern position at Santa Cruz City Schools, where Marlene offered mental health services to students, as well as various roles in domestic violence advocacy and social assistance across several organizations. Marlene holds a Master of Social Work degree and a Bachelor of Arts in Collaborative Health and Human Services from California State University, Monterey Bay.
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Community Human Services
For over 50 years, Community Human Services has provided accessible, high quality substance abuse, mental health and homeless services to those most in need in Monterey County, California. We are a community non-profit founded by concerned local parents and partner with over a dozen local cities, towns, and school districts to provide help and hope. Virtually all of the work we do at CHS addresses underlying conditions or root causes of personal, family and community problems, whether it’s addiction, domestic violence, mental illness, emotional health, homelessness, child abuse, or any number of problems that people have trouble solving on their own. We help our clients develop new skills and support networks, learn new behaviors, and learn how to utilize community resources. Ultimately, our services affect change in the community by reducing the need for social services, law enforcement, hospitals, jails and prisons, and by improving school attendance, performance and social outcomes for children.