Portia Bell Hume Behavioral Health and Training Center
Prem Pariyar, MSW, ASW, is an experienced mental health professional currently serving as an Associate Mental Health Clinician at Portia Bell Hume Behavioral Health and Training Center since August 2018. With a diverse background in social work and community organization, Pariyar has contributed as an Advanced Practicum Trainee Social Worker at the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants and as a Community Lead Organizer for the Grassroots Organizing & Leadership Development Project. Past roles include serving as a Community Outreach Ambassador for the Diversity in Health Training Institute, where the focus was on expanding healthcare pathways for immigrants, and as an Intern Social Worker for the Supportive Housing Program at Lifelong Medical Care, emphasizing housing stability for formerly homeless individuals. Educational credentials include a Doctor of Education in International and Multicultural Education from the University of San Francisco, and a Master of Social Work from California State University - East Bay.
Portia Bell Hume Behavioral Health and Training Center
The Hume Center was founded in 1993 as an Outpatient program serving the underserved populations in Central Contra Costa County is adapting to the needs of not only the changing nature of challenges in behavioral health today, but also laying the groundwork for the future. Hume Center’s endearing and an amazing team of heart-centered, professional, and highly dedicated board, management, administrative support staff or direct service staff care about making a difference in our society. The Hume Center strives to create an environment of psychological well-being both internally for our work community and externally for the community we serve, with special consideration for the under- and un-served, through practicing an enabling consultation process. We believe in serving our community through strengthening existing and developing new resources; providing the highest caliber of culturally sensitive behavioral health services, professional training, and clinical research; and focusing on consistent improvement through outcomes, data-based quality assurance, and program evaluation.