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CACF Health Policy Manager receives building green and healthy communities award from AAFE
Noilyn Abesamis-Mendoza, CACF Health Policy Manager, will receive the "Building Green and Healthy Communities"award as part of Asian American for Equality's 2010 Chinatown Summer Street Festival.
Noilyn is being honored for her leadership in advocating for public policies that advance the health of the Asian Pacific American community. For example, she organized the first-ever Project CHARGE, and recently launched our 4-member health eating and active living collaborative.
Congratulations Noilyn!
12% and Growing Coalition's
FY 2011
New York City Budget Analysis
The 12% and Growing Coalition announces its analysis of the New York City FY 2011 Adopted City Budget. The 12% and Growing Coalition consists of over45 Asian led and serving organizations fighting for a fair, equitable budget is co-led by the MinKwon Center for Community Action and CACF.
This analysis summarizes 1) the budget restorations for FY 2011 and 2) the impacts on the Asian Pacific American community. While the Asian Pacific American community makes up 12% of the City's population and is by percentage the City's fastest growing community, Asian led organizations receive only 0.24% of the City's social service contract dollars and only 0.38% of the City's foundation grant dollars.
Click here for 12% and Growing Coalition's
FY 2011 New York City Budget Analysis
Asian Pacific American Community-Based Organizations Form New Collaborative to Address
Healthy Eating and Active Living
CACF is pleased to announce Asian Pacific Americans Healthy Eating and Active Living In our Neighborhoods (APA HEALIN'). APA HEALIN' is a new collaborative that aims to reduce chronic disease and poor health outcomes in the diverse Asian Pacific American community in New York City by increasing healthy eating and physical activity through structural and policy changes.
Statement on FY 2011 Adopted
New York City Budget
“We are delighted that the Mayor and City Council agreed to restore over $100 million in health and human services in the adopted budget. A key restoration is the nearly $11.7 million for 2,900 Child Welfare preventive services slots. Other partial restorations include the Immigrant Opportunities Initiative, Out-of-School Time Initiative, HIV/AIDS Communities of Color Initiative, and Domestic Violence & Empowerment (DoVE) Initiative,” said Wayne Ho, Executive Director of the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families (CACF). “We are happy that restorations to our public schools will prevent the pending lay-offs but are still awaiting the State’s budget decisions. Overall, given the difficult fiscal challenges, we are grateful for the restorations that were made. However, partial restorations are not enough to support the amount of services that are needed at a time when our families are also struggling from the impacts of our fiscal downturn. We hope that there will be full restorations to health and human services next year, especially of the Immigrant Opportunities Initiative.”
Asian American health Advocates tackle state implementation of health care reform
On Wednesday, May 12, 2010, social services providers, community health workers, researchers, health educations, health providers, and policy advocates will convene at the state capitol to 1) educate legislators about the health challenges facing the diverse Asian American community and 2) urge that their needs are met in the new health system to be developed under federal health care reform.
Click here for the press release.
Project charge statement on passage of the patient protection and affordable care act (hr 3590)
Coalition of Asian American organizations applauds passage of historic health reform legislation
New York, NY – Project CHARGE (Coalition for Health Access to Reach Greater Equity) applauds President Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and the House of Representatives for their incredible leadership to make health reform a reality. On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590), a historic health care reform legislation which will increase access to care for approximately 32 million Americans. Project CHARGE now looks to the Senate to make additional improvements to our nation's health care system by quickly passing the House-passed Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010 (H.R. 4872).
Click here to read the full statement.
Click here for a copy of our report, Healing Our Health Care System: Asian American Voices for Health Reform
cacf CApacity building project
CACF received a $500,000 grant for our newest capacity building project. Through this project CACF will provide 1) A series of FREE capacity building workshops and 2) Regrant $280,000 to eligible organizations.
For more information on this project click here.
To view the Capacity Building Project Request for Proposal (RFP) click here.
2009 Caring for Children Awards gala Reception
Thank you for your continued support and for helping us make the 2009 Caring for Children Awards Gala Reception a success!
CACF honored distinguished Asian American leaders:
Loretta Au, MD, Charles B. Wang Community Health Center
Amardeep Singh, The Sikh Coalition
Kyung Yoon, Korean American Community Foundation
Thank you to our sponsors!
Ong Family Foundation
Tiger Baron Foundation
Bloomberg
Charles B. Wang International Foundation
Kenneth deRegt
TD Bank
Western Union
WABC-TV
Anonymous
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