KCS, Inc.
Mina J. Pak, LCSW, PPSC currently serves as the Director of Behavioral Health at KCS, Inc., where responsibilities include managing the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic program, coordinating clinical integration, and providing supervision to team members. Prior to this role, Mina worked as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, providing mental health assessments, crisis intervention, and therapeutic services. Experience also includes serving as a School-Based Therapist at Downey Unified School District, where services focused on counseling and mental health support for students and families. Additional roles include Clinical Case Manager at Therapeutic Behavioral Services and Social Work Therapist Intern at Sharp HealthCare, with a strong foundation in trauma-informed care and therapeutic methodologies. Educational qualifications include a Master’s degree in Social Work from San Diego State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Pepperdine University.
KCS, Inc.
KCS Incorporated is a well-established non-profit multi-service agency located in Orange County, CA, with core missions brought together primarily in three divisions: • KCS Healthcare, a Federally Qualified Healthcare Clinic Provider (FQHC), dispensing individual, always affordable healthcare, in which no one is ever turned away, including, but not limited to, Primary Care, Pediatrics, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Ophthalmology, Housing Navigation, Chiropractic, Alternative Medicine, Behavioral Health, and Addiction (SUD/OUD/MAT) Treatment - (including a Mobile Medicine Fleet); • KCS Counseling, a Social Services Provider, offering a vast array of specialized services and programs, from individual and peer group clinical therapy to individual/social justice programs and issue-oriented educational classes; and • KCS Community, a Community Resources Provider and engaged Advocate, offering retreat and community for those seeking haven, and voice and power to those needing both. KCS’ tri-fold missions seek to serve the region’s most vulnerable populations, including, but not limited to, the AAPI and Immigrant communities; unhoused; underserved; disenfranchised; elderly; low-income; non-English speaking; LGBTQ+; previously incarcerated; and those struggling with substance abuse. KCS does this through client-centered, team-oriented, wraparound, trauma and social determinates informed, culturally appropriate and linguistically competent expert care, support, education, and advocacy. KCS currently has professional staff of over 160 employees, including highly skilled social service and healthcare providers and professionals, who work in conjunction with social workers, community outreach workers, patient navigators, immigration rights advocates, group support counselors, health educators, volunteer coordinators, health educators and recovery specialists throughout Orange County, CA.