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PROGRAM NEWS

Free and Nutritious

Do you know that APA runs two year-round community food pantries in Visitacion Valley partnering with SF-Marin Food Bank? In 2017 we distributed 533 tons of food to the Visitacion Valley community. This equated to $1,844,631 worth of food, according to Sean Brooks, Chief Program Officer at SF-Marin Food Bank. Our Tuesday community food pantry is held at the Sunnydale Community Center, very close to our 1704 Sunnydale Ave. family center. Our Friday food pantry takes place in the auditorium of our Visitacion Valley Family Center on Raymond Ave.

 

GALLERY  Our Volunteers Rock!

We Got A Fresh Coat of Paint...Volunteers from HSBC and Saints Peter and Paul Church spent a Saturday to give our office a much needed freshening up, painting the rooms downstairs at our Nottingham Place office. Thanks to Kory Lam, HSBC, for sponsoring.

Peer-to-Peer Fundraising...Instead of birthday presents, volunteer Rae Lin asked her friends to help fund an APA cause. As a result, 21 kids from our client families got to visit the Exploratorium and a feel for the STEM activities APA offers. Thanks, Rae!   PHOTO link.

PROGRAM SUCCESS   Learning and Progressing

Client Zheng, a single mother with a 7 year-old child, migrated to San Francisco a few months ago. She needs a job as soon as possible to support their living expenses. In order to improve her qualifications for employment, she comes to APA regularly for accelerated ESL lessons, making good progress on One-on-One English tutoring and Digital Literacy training. However she is...

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YMCA Membership

We work with many SRO families and because their entire household live in a single room, they have no means to get healthy exercise or a place to spend their day without being in their small and confined room where they sleep, eat, and stay. Families that consistently participate in APA services are provided with YMCA memberships, enabling them to gain access to the workout gym, yoga classes, swimming pool, and other activities. The YMCA essentially extends their living space and gives them a period of respite.

 

Please donate to this worthy cause of YMCA membership for client families. Any amount is appreciated.

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UPCOMING EVENT

Family Wellness Day 2018, April 7, 10 am - 1 pm at 855 Sacramento St, San Francisco. Event co-sponsors are APA Family Support Services, Asian and Pacific Islander Family Resources Network (APIFRN), First 5 San Francisco, and Touro University California College of Pharmacy. Families are encouraged to bring along medicine bottles for consultation.

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RECENT EVENTS

Community Baby Shower, hosted by APA, welcomed our Chinatown/North Beach New Moms Group in February. Twelve expecting and new moms attended to learn about...

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Chinese Zodiac Animal Masks were worn by all at the Lunar New Year celebration held at our Chinatown Family Support Center. The Parent Leadership took the... 

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Street Fair Outreach is part of our year-round effort to spread the word about APA's services for the low-income, and immigrant families in the city. Sunday Streets SF...

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Black History and Career Day event was celebrated at the Sunnydale Community Center on February 24. A Black history themed scavenger hunt, rotating...

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Visitacion Valley neighbors came together for their 20th annual Family Day on March 10 that included a parade, carnival and pony rides, petting zoo, performances, ...

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Collaborating with Visitacion Valley Neighborhood Association, we hosted a Lunar New Year party at our family center's auditorium at 66 Raymond Ave....
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS   
Chair  Rose Chung  Miss Asian Global Pageant

President  Cary Chen  Recology  
Vice President  Jacqueline Huie First Republic Bank

Secretary  Julie Hoxie  University of California, Berkeley
Treasurer  Joyce Tso, CPA/ABV  ASAM, LLP

Mai-Sie Chan, M.D.  Private Practice
Van Diep  KTSF-TV, Channel 26

Stephen Koh, CLF  MassMutual Financial Group
Fanny Lam  Paragon Commercial Brokerage

Kory Lam  HSBC Bank (USA)
Susan Sung, Ph.D., Professor Emerita  

San Francisco State University

Dean Yao, Ph.D.  Jinfonet Software 
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR  

Amor Santiago, DPM, MPH

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