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The Center for Multicultural Human Services is a non-profit organization staffed by multi-ethnic, multilingual social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, education specialists, art therapists and graduate interns from local universities.

CMHS offers a broad range of mental health, social, educational, health and language services geared to the unique values and characteristics of individuals and families from diverse cultures.


To help people from ethnically diverse backgrounds succeed by providing comprehensive, culturally sensitive mental health and related services and by conducting research and training to make such services more widely available.


To become the pre-eminent provider of mental health and related services to ethnically diverse populations across the Washington D.C. area, with a cutting edge service model, a nationally and internationally recognized training program, and an emerging role in cross-cultural research.


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