Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
Pahoua Yang is the Vice President of Community Mental Health & Wellness at the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation. As a clinician, she has immense experience with diverse client populations in multiple settings.
Pahoua has served on a number of national and statewide committees and task forces aimed at advancing health equity. She is a past recipient of the University of Minnesota’s Polaris Award for Health and Human Services, was the 2014 National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Minnesota Professional of the Year, and serves on the board of the Minnesota Association of Community Mental Health Programs. Pahoua holds a Master of Science degree in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a doctorate in Educational Psychology (counseling) from the University of Minnesota. In her spare time she enjoys being with her family and her Kindle.
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Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
The Amherst H. Wilder Foundation is a nonprofit health and human services organization that has served the greater Saint Paul, Minnesota area since 1906. The mission of the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation is to promote the social welfare of persons resident or located in the greater Saint Paul metropolitan area by all appropriate means including: relief of the poor; care of the sick and aged; care and nurture of children; aid of the disadvantaged and otherwise needy; promotion of physical and mental health; support of rehabilitation and corrections; and provision of needed housing and social services all without regard to, or discrimination on account of, nationality, sex, color, religious scruples or prejudices.