Community Health Roundtable on AAPI Communities.
Monday, April 25, 2011. 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM
Hosted by Lao Assistance Center of MN/Harrison Education Center
503 North Irving Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55405
Purpose:
White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders representatives will be collecting recommendations for federal policies, regulations, programs, and funding specifically related to health issues in our communities.
You will have the opportunity to:
· Share key recommendations on health issues which are impacting our communities
· Provide analysis on federal policies and programs affecting AAPIs.
· Advocate for inclusion of priorities within federal policies and programs
White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Representatives:
Doua Thor, Commissioner,
President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
Gita Uppal, Senior Advisor on Health Policy,
WHIAAPI
Kate Moraras, Advisor on Health Policy and Community Engagement,
WHIAAPI
This roundtable event has limited space and is by invitation only. To RSVP, please email Chanida at chanidap@laocenter.org with your first and last name, affiliated organization, and email and phone number
Monday, April 18, 2011
Free Twins Tickets for Youths - Friday 4/22/11 Game
The Minnesota Twins Community Fund are giving away a limited supply of free tickets to Southeast Asian youths under age 17 for the game on Friday April 22nd at 7:00pm against the Cleveland Indians. Lao Center has secured about 18 tickets. If you know anyone interested in attending, please contact Chanida at 612-374-4967 or chanidap@laocenter.org with their full name and phone number NO LATER than this Wednesday April 20th.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Lao Assistance Center closed Friday
The Lao Assistance Center will be closed Friday in observance of Lao New Year. Thank you and if you have any questions, please feel free to write to sunny@laocenter.org or call 612-374-4967.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Lao Assistance Center Receives Support from Westminster Presbyterian Church
A big thanks to the Westminster Presbyterian Church who has agreed to sponsor the Lao Assistance Center for volunteer training in community advocacy for $1,000!
For nearly 150 years, Westminster Presbyterian Church has worked to fulfill its mission of serving as “a telling presence in the city.” At its founding in 1857, the congregation was a small gathering of eight people of Scotch, Irish and Welsh heritage. After raising $2,000, they built a church on Fourth Street in Minneapolis. The Westminster congregation grew rapidly, prompting the construction of a new, larger church on Seventh Street and Nicollet Avenue (now Nicollet Mall), which opened its doors in March 1883. Some twelve years later the building was heavily damaged by fire, forcing the congregation to move. Ground was broken in 1896 on the new site at the corner of Twelfth Street and Nicollet Avenue – Westminster’s current site – and the congregation began meeting for services at the present church in 1897.
We look forward to serving our communities and thank the Westminster Presbyterian Church for their support.
For nearly 150 years, Westminster Presbyterian Church has worked to fulfill its mission of serving as “a telling presence in the city.” At its founding in 1857, the congregation was a small gathering of eight people of Scotch, Irish and Welsh heritage. After raising $2,000, they built a church on Fourth Street in Minneapolis. The Westminster congregation grew rapidly, prompting the construction of a new, larger church on Seventh Street and Nicollet Avenue (now Nicollet Mall), which opened its doors in March 1883. Some twelve years later the building was heavily damaged by fire, forcing the congregation to move. Ground was broken in 1896 on the new site at the corner of Twelfth Street and Nicollet Avenue – Westminster’s current site – and the congregation began meeting for services at the present church in 1897.
We look forward to serving our communities and thank the Westminster Presbyterian Church for their support.
Lao Assistance Center receives support from Susan G. Komen Foundation
The Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota thanks the Susan G. Komen foundation who has generously agreed to support the Lao Assistance Center with $50,000 to advance breast cancer outreach.
For the first time in Minnesota, the Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota will create a program to address breast health in the Lao refugee community (Southeast Asians).
We will provide breast cancer education, outreach, and screening to Lao women and men in the Twin Cities seven-county metro area. Our outreach strategies will focus on community radio, TV, newspaper, social media, and other mediums and we will recruit and screen women from both existing clients and community members touched by our media campaign and outreach efforts.
Our primary anticipated outcomes are: 1) 3,000 Lao women and men will gain increased awareness of breast cancer and its prevention as a result of an education and media campaign; and 450 women and men will receive breast cancer screening as a result of education and individual encouragement and support
The Minnesota Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure®—along with those who generously support them with their talent, time and resources—is working to better the lives of those facing breast cancer in our community. They join more than 100,000 breast cancer survivors and activists around the globe as part of the world’s largest and most progressive grassroots network fighting breast cancer.
Thank you again for your support!
For the first time in Minnesota, the Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota will create a program to address breast health in the Lao refugee community (Southeast Asians).
We will provide breast cancer education, outreach, and screening to Lao women and men in the Twin Cities seven-county metro area. Our outreach strategies will focus on community radio, TV, newspaper, social media, and other mediums and we will recruit and screen women from both existing clients and community members touched by our media campaign and outreach efforts.
Our primary anticipated outcomes are: 1) 3,000 Lao women and men will gain increased awareness of breast cancer and its prevention as a result of an education and media campaign; and 450 women and men will receive breast cancer screening as a result of education and individual encouragement and support
The Minnesota Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure®—along with those who generously support them with their talent, time and resources—is working to better the lives of those facing breast cancer in our community. They join more than 100,000 breast cancer survivors and activists around the globe as part of the world’s largest and most progressive grassroots network fighting breast cancer.
Thank you again for your support!
Immigration Law Workshops coming to Lao Assistance Center
Tolzmann and Nordell, LLP is a full-service law firm with experienced and licensed attorneys in the U.S. providing legal consultation and representation exclusively on U.S. immigration law and worldwide consular-based visa services. They represent clients before U.S Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) officers, service centers, embassies/consulates around the world, and before immigration judges at the local immigration court.
L. Elizabeth Tolzmann has been practicing law of over six years, particularly in the field of immigration. She has extensive and well-rounded experience in employment-based immigration, family-based immigration, consular-based processing, and deportation defense. She has represented clients before U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Services, the local immigration courts, and U.S. embassies/consulates worldwide.
She received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of St. Thomas School of Law and Bachelor’s degree in Business/Marketing from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. She is licensed in the states of Minnesota and Nevada. Tolzmann is a 2009 recipient of the University of St. Thomas School of Law Alumni Living the Mission Award and has attained St. Thomas' Society of the Arches Socius Approbtus status for her contributions of time and talent to the university community.
Elizabeth is also a Board Member of Mines Advisory Group (MAG), a nonprofit and non-governmental organization based in Washington, DC, whose mission is to clear the remnants of armed conflict from some of the world's poorest nations; educate and employ local people; and help provide solutions for those trapped by poverty and economic devastation through no fault of their own. She has volunteered for the Tubman Safety Program and served as a legal advocate for domestic abuse victims in Hennepin County.
Stay tuned for more details!
Lao Assistance Center workshop on Foreclosures
Over a dozen Lao elders came to participate in our Foreclosure Workshop.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) approved the nation’s first network of housing counseling organizations dedicated to serving Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders facing foreclosures or who need general housing counseling.
The National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (CAPACD), is now an intermediary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and will support a national network of nonprofits in 10 states, providing services in more than ten AAPI languages and communities, including the Lao Assistance Center.
The Lao Assistance Center is particularly working to increase awareness of issues of Loan Scams and predatory lending and a more concrete awareness of the foreclosure process to assist Lao in a culturally relevant manner, in the interactive small group format and within the Lao language, allowing time for questions and answers and to establish ideas for long-term solutions.
Overall, participants were very interested in the subject. Many wanted to pass the information on to nieces, nephews who owned homes. They asked for a workshop on homeownership in May. Most came from across Minneapolis and Hennepin County, learning about it through flyers, phone calls and our contact database. It was a little cramped so future meetings may be organized in the multipurpose room or the meeting room at the Harrison Neighborhood Association.
The Lao Assistance Center thanks everyone who came, and for more information you can e-mail Pany Siharath at pany@laocenter.org or Linda Homsombath at lindah@laocenter.org you can also call (612) 374-4967
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