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Pauline Bich-Phuong Le

Family Consultant, St. Jude Medical Center
1998, Master of Social Work, ����Ӱ��
1994, Bachelor of Social Work, ����Ӱ��

Sometimes known as the “mother of Vietnamese social work” in Orange County, Pauline Bich-Phuong Le has worked since 1998 as a family consultant at St. Jude Medical Center’s Orange Caregiver Resource Center, where she provides services for Vietnamese family caregivers and initiated the first support group for Vietnamese caregivers of brain-impaired patients.

She also serves as a contracted therapist for the V.A.L.U.E. program, offering therapy to Vietnamese elderly with complex mental health issues. Previously, she worked as a Fountain Valley Regional Hospital clinical social worker and a Center for the Pacific-Asian Family, Inc. family counselor.

Le’s community service includes organizing an annual Orange County Asian-Pacific Islander’s Health and Resource Fair, facilitating Vietnamese-American Providers in Human Resources networking luncheons and serving as the Vietnamese American Human Services Association’s executive director. She is a past member of the L.A. County Welfare Advisory Committee (1990-00) and L.A. Domestic Violence Task Force on Policy and Procedure (1994-98).

Her honors include St. Jude Medical Center’s 2008 Justice Award and the 2008 Viet-CARE award. While attending ����Ӱ�� graduate school, Le participated in an Asian Pacific Islander’s Social Work ����Ӱ�� group.

As an alum, she has supervised ����Ӱ�� student interns and served as a preceptor for MSW students. Le loves to travel and enjoys sampling foods from different countries. She is the oldest daughter in a family with four younger brothers and was the only sibling to finish graduate school.

From Alumni Awards 2010 program