Programs and Services

Hmong Family Resource Center

HFRC support and facilitate efforts that strengthen Hmong families and empowers them to utilize their internal resources and natural supports towards achieving healthy lives, self-sufficiency, social empowerment and cultural appreciation.

Program Goal: The Hmong Family Resource Center (HFRC) strives to build and strengthen self-sufficient, resourceful, and actively engaged Hmong families.

Program Strategies:

Case-Management: HFRC case-management system is design to support and facilitate client-driven individual/family goals focused on seven outcome areas: 1) Economic Self-Sufficiency 2) Health 3) Mental Health 4) Family Empowerment 5) Children’s Education 6) Youth Development and 7) Civil Engagement.

Supportive Social Services: Services such as interpreting/translation, paperwork assistance, and information and referrals are available to individuals and families who requests on-site assistance and do not require long-term support.

Citizenship Services: Provide citizenship education, small study groups, application preparations, interpreting/translations, and informational workshops that inform the community about the naturalization process and promote civic participation.

Hmong Elder Leadership Program: Support groups and activities for elders that decrease social isolation and promote health and wellness.

Peer Partner Program: Provide peer support, system navigation, and service coordination for consumers and families in the public mental system.

Outcomes (priority focus areas):

1). Economic Self-Sufficiency: Hmong individuals/families are self-sufficient with all of their basic needs met and functioning proactively.

2). Health: Hmong individual/families have equal access to quality healthcare and are practicing preventive care.

3). Mental Health: Hmong individual/family have equal access to quality mental health services, are engaged to meaningful social/recreational activities, and living a fulfilling and productive life.

4). Civic Engagement: Hmong individuals/family are engaged civically, naturalized U.S. citizens with access to equal opportunities and privileges.

Community Engagement Strategies:

-          Relationship building at point of contact with all individuals/families that come through the doors of HWHA and within the HFRC program.

-          Learning Conversations

-          Community Advisory Groups made of individuals of similar interests (e.g. mental health consumers/family members, shamans, parents, and etc.)

-          Community forums, talking circles, and presentations

-          Social gatherings and field trips

-          Newsletters, Annual reports highlighting the program

Kashia Health

Program Goal:

To reduce cancer and chronic health disparities among Hmong communities in the greater Sacramento region by promoting cancer awareness, screening and providing health navigation.

Program Objective: 

To deliver cancer education, research and outreach to the Hmong community in the greater Sacramento region.  Outreach will help the Hmong community members learn more about:

·         Cancer awareness, prevention and causes.

·         Valid scientifically approaches to reduce cancer risk.

·         How to seek care for cancer or cancer prevention with medically appropriate.

Research:

• Pap Testing among Hmong Women
• Community-based Hepatitis B Intervention for Hmong Adult
• As Assessment of Hmong Women’s Barriers and Behavior toward Breast and Cervical Screening
• A Randomized Controlled Trial of Lay Health Educators and Colorectal Cancer Screening in  Four Asian American Communities
• Health Communications Regarding Developmental Disabilities among the Hmong Community

Program Services:

Youth Empowerment Program

DESCRIPTION

            The Youth Empowerment Program (YEP) started as an after-school program to address young women issues of self-image, identity, and leadership and was then known as Hmong Women’s Circle (HWC). That small program has grown to become the Youth Empowerment Program; a culturally sensitive program that focuses on youth development by providing safe spaces for growth, self-expression, and leadership.

VISION

            Youth are proud, engaged, and making healthy decisions.

Youth Circle Mentoring Program (YCMP)

            YCMP is dedicated to the empowerment of Hmong, Mien and Lao youth of Sacramento by addressing issues that we face through appropriate education (workshops, guest speakers, etc.), self-healing, building unity, community engagement, and reaching goals that students set for themselves to succeed beyond high school.

            YCMP was first implemented in the Spring of 2008 at Fern Bacon Elementary, Elder Creek Elementary, Will C. Wood Middle School, and Hiram Johnson High School. This year, 2009-2010, we serve students at John Still Elementary, Rosa Parks Middle, Will C. Wood Middle and Hiram Johnson High School. YCMP works closely with Sacramento Chinese Community Service Center’s After-School Programs.

Activities:

Various Workshops (i.e. histories, communication, relationships, art, higher education, etc.)

Team Builders

Community Project/Biography (Oral Histories of Relatives)

Check-in w/students individually

Testimonials:

“Sometimes, YCMP is the only place I can go to, to talk about what I’m going through,” (Johnson Senior).

“YCMP introduces ideas and different ways to do things that I have never thought about,” (Johnson Junior).

“I can go to a place [like YCMP] where I don’t have to explain myself all the time,” (John Still Elementary 6^th grader).

Eternal Growth Group (EGG)

            EGG is the Sacramento Hmong, Mien, and Lao youth advisory council that advises YEP and the Hmong, Mien, Lao Community Action Network, a coalition made up of community based organizations, the Office of Youth Development, the City of Sacramento, and community members. EGG provide opportunities for youth to gain and practice leadership skills through community events and community engagement projects.

Open Circle

            A weekly community program open to all Southeast Asian (SEA) youth in Sacramento to learn and express their experiences as SEA youth growing up in America. Themes and topics that are explored: heritage, history, and traditions as well as leadership, communication, and team building.