AANHPI Heritage Month: Navigating mental health, Tom Wong on immigration

This month, KPBS Midday Edition is featuring conversations with important San Diego voices to commemorate Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month. First, we dive into the experience of AANHPI communities in navigating mental health care and how cultural values, traditions and intergenerational dynamics can impact treatment. Then, political science professor Tom Wong has spent the last decade and a half exploring how immigration has shaped the U.S. KPBS Midday Edition host Jade Hindmon sits down with Wong to speak about his work. Guests: Nellie Tran , community psychologist, professor, San Diego State University Department of Counseling and School Psychology Tom Wong , political science professor, UC San Diego; founder and director, U.S. Immigration Policy Center Resources: SDSU Center for Community Counseling and Engagement SDSU Counseling and Psychological Services National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) San Diego

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This episode was published on May 27, 2026.

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