The Asian Senior Health and Wellness Project is currently working with 215 seniors who are 60 years old and over to access to the health and mental services. In 2019, we received a small grant from the City of Richmond to conduct the survey and assess the needs and issues affecting the Asian seniors in the City of Richmond where the Asian population represents about 15 percents of the city populations.
 
The Project talked to over 500 Asian seniors and collected the information and data on the health, mental health and other issues affecting their lives.
 
In the past 2 and half years. the Project assisted them to get the Covid 19 testing, vaccinations, and boosters. The project is also working with Contra Costa Food Bank to deliver the fresh produces to needy seniors and their families.

The ABLE Community Development Foundation is working with the Community Tech Network and Everyone on to provide the IPAD and teach the limited English-Speaking seniors learn how to use the IPAD to access the internet.

We are working with over 150 Asian seniors. The Project is funded by the Contra Costa County Area on Aging Agency (AAA).
 

The Asian Pacific Senior Nutrition Project in Contra Costa County is a partnership of the ABLE Community Development Foundation, Meals on Wheels of Diablo Region, and the Contra Costa Area Aging Agency (AAA) who provides funding to serve 40 Asian seniors 2 times a week on Tuesday and Thursday.  The Project is to outreach to the Asian senior populations to promote healthy eating that supports the physical and mental well-being.

The Project is in a partnership with the Contra Costa County Family Justice Center to work with  40 Asian families who have the teenaged children. The Project recruited hired, and trained the bilingual-bicultural facilitators and held 2 6 sessions of 2 hours each to go over the curriculum that was developed and adopted by the CDC. Then the 8 facilitators, a pair of two from 4 ethnic groups of parents and to hold 6 two hours workshops to train 40 parents on the CDC developed curriculum on the Parents Matter for Dating Matters including the following topics.

*  Why do parents' matter

*  Parenting positively

* Parents are educators

* I think I can, I know I can

* Parents are role models

* Moving forward

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The Project is funded by the Office of Governor for 2 years (2022-24).

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The Project is to mobilize the community to build a collective capacity to educate the community members on the behavioral health issues that affect the families and the communities. The Project is to form a Community Advisory Committee consisting of the community leaders that meet one a month to discuss and plan to engage with at least 100 families in a form of workshops or a group meeting. 

The Project is to recruit 10 bilingual/bicultural Community Health Workers to participate in a 4-month training program. The topics will include, not limited to.

i.  Community health workforce.

ii.  Professional development.

iii.  Leadership development; and

iv.  Community capacity building. 

The Project is to organize and hold at least 10 workshops and engage with at least 100 Southeast Asian families.

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The Project is funded by the Contra Costa County Health Department.

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