Pacific Clinics
Wassy Tesfa will be executive director of Head Start. In this capacity, she oversees Pacific Clinics’ early education programs including Head Start, Early Head Start, Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships and state preschool. An advocate of early education, Tesfa sits on the board of directors for the Region 9 Head Start Association’s and ex-officio and co-chairs the public policy and government affairs committee. She completed the Head Start Fellows Program in Washington, D.C. and earned a certificate in negotiation mastery from Harvard University. Tesfa received a master’s degree from Johannes Gutenberg University in Germany.
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Pacific Clinics
Pacific Clinics has transformed lives for over 95 years. Each day, we live our mission of advancing behavioral healthcare through our comprehensive continuum of services, through our advocacy at the state and federal levels on policies that impact mental health, and through our evidence-based training for professionals. Pacific Clinics supports individuals and families in over 50 locations across Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Ventura Counties. With free, low-cost and sliding scale fee services for children, youth, transitional age youth, adults, and older adults, we are here for Southern Californians at every stage of life.