COMMUNITY SERVICES
• International Indian Treaty Council - San Francisco
Organization of Indigenous Peoples from the American continent and the Pacific, working for their sovereignty and self-determination and the recognition and protection of indigenous rights, traditional cultures, and sacred lands. www.treatycouncil.org
• Chinese Historical Society of America - San Francisco
Dedicated to the study, documentation, and dissemination of Chinese American history.
www.chsa.org
• National Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA) - San Francisco
Promoting a pluralistic society through the funding, broadcast, exhibition, and distribution of Asian Pacific American media arts. www.naatanet.org
Chinese Historical and Cultural Project - San Jose
The CHCP's mission is to promote and preserve Chinese and Chinese-American history and culture.www.chcp.org
• Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO) - Oakland
National association representing community health organizations dedicated to promoting advocacy, collaboration, and leadership that improves the health status and access of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders within the United States.
www.aapcho.org
• Pacific Islanders' Cultural Association - San Francisco
Nonprofit organization working to develop and perpetuate Pacific Islanders' histories, cultures, and traditional and contemporary folk arts. www.pica-org.org
• SHARE Foundation - San Francisco
Nonprofit institution that supports impoverished Salvadoran communities as they seek long-term, sustainable solutions to the problems of poverty, underdevelopment and social injustice. www.share-elsalvador.org
• American Indian Child Resource Center - Oakland
Provides services to American Indian youth and their families in eleven counties of the Bay Area. www.aicrc.org
• Berkeley NAACP Youth Council - Berkeley
www.Geocities.com/CollegePark/Field/4241
• Tibetan Association of Northern California - Berkeley
Community site for the Tibetan Association of Northern California (TANC). Slide show, images, and information about the cultural activities of San Francisco Bay Area Tibetans
www.tanc.org
• Middle East Children's Alliance - Berkeley
NGO which works for peace in the Middle East, focusing on Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, and Iraq www.mecaforpeace.org
• Samoan Community Development Center - San Francisco
Nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for Samoans and other Pacific Islanders. www.samoancenter.org
• Japan Society of Northern California - San Francisco
www.us-japan.org/jsnc
• Ableza - San Jose
A Native American arts and film institute. www.ableza.org
Non-Profit Organizations:
• Maitri - matri.org
Matri was developed by a group of Indian women to help aid the South Asian community to have a place where women are able to feel comfortable talking about any problems in their lives. Maitri is a non-profit organization that helps South Asian women in situations of domestic abuse, cultural displacement, or unresolved conflict. TOLL FREE HOTLINE: 1(888)8MAITRI
• Community United Against Violence: CUAV.org
Founded in 1979, CUAV is the nation's first LGBTQQ (Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning) anti-violence organization. This multicultural anti-oppression organization works to build safe, healing, and resilent communities free from all forms of violence. 24-Hr. Crisis Line: 1(415)333-HELP (4357)
• Career Resource Development Center: CRDCSF.org
Career Resource Development Center provides pre-employment training, occupational skills training, workplace literacy and employment services including career counseling, job search assistance, job placement and maintenance support. Phone: 1(415) 441-8154
• Community Employment Service: cesworks.org
Community Employment Service is a non-profit employment agency working to connect knowledgeable, motivated workers with disabilities, to enlighten forward, thinking employers. Phone: 1(415) 503 - 4460
• West Community Services: Westside-health.org
For 40 years, West Community Services has been providing a wide selection of community-based prevention, mental health, substance abuse, and social services to clients in the City and County of San Francisco. They serve clients with diverse ethnic, cultural, economic and social backgrounds through programs and services that provide advocacy, outreach, in-home support, prevention, therapeutic interventions, care coordination, medication monitoring and health screening, crisis assessment, and involvement. Phone: 1(415) 431-9000
• Walden House: Waldenhouse.org
For 39 years, the Walden House provides a full-range health care system specializing in all aspects of addiction services. They also promote a culturally sensitive treatment environment designed to promote the open communication, self-help and empowerment of each person with the context of the greater community. Phone: 1(415)554-1100
• Huckleberry Youth Programs: huckleberryyouth.org
Giving youth the ability to develop and maintain healthy relationships as well as assisting them and their families in overcoming obstacles they may encounter such as drugs and alcohol abuse, mental health challenges, teen pregnancy, sexual transmitted infections, violence, social and economic inequities, and physical and sexual abuse. TOLL FREE: 1(800) 735-2929
• Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California: jcccnc.org
Since 1973, The Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California has been serving the community for almost 35 years. The JCCCNC strives to meet the evolving needs of the Japanese American community through offering programs, affordable services and facility usage. They organize and provide educational, cultural, recreational and social programs that meet the growing needs, interests and concerns of the community. Phone: 1(415)567-5505
• Bayanihan Community Center: www.bayanihancc.org
The Filipino American Development Foundation provides a community space to strengthen community ties, to facilitate the sharing of resources and expertise among service providers in SOMA, and to build leadership skills and the capacity of service providers to effectively provide relevant social services to the community. Phone: 1(415)348-8042
• Jobs for Youth : jobsforyouth.net
Jobs for Youth focuses on understanding the employment needs of San Francisco businesses which benefits community organizations and schools with the expanded connection to business and the exchange of information on hiring trends and future skill set requirements within different industries and sectors. Jobs for Youth creates pathways to employment that enable youth to strengthen their foundation for success. Phone: 1(415) 861-JOBS
• New Leaf: newleafservices.org
New Leaf: Services For Our Community exists to help lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning individuals and families of all ages lead healthy and connected lives. They provide professional mental health, substance abuse, and social support services to strengthen our diverse community. Phone: 1(415)626-7000
• The International Facility Management Association : ifmasf.org
Founded in 1980, The International Facility Management Association has steadily grown with the profession, and is the premiere organization supporting facility management that provides support to facility management professionals through programs of career development, education and research.
• The Chinese Community Health Resource Center: cchrc.org
Established in 1989, the Chinese Community Health Resource Center helps build a healthy community through culturally and linguistically competent preventive health, disease management, and research programs. CCHRC also reaches out to the community by conducting Chinese-language media campaigns, conducting health fairs, initiating and serving on coalitions to address important community health needs, and pioneering community-based research to study these problems and test solutions. Phone: 1(415) 677-2473
• ASIAN NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING CENTER – www.andnet.org/
Over the 35 years Asian Neighborhood Design has been in existence, we have grown to serve ethnically diverse communities throughout the Bay Area and expanded beyond our original focus on design to include architecture, community planning, employment training, and family and youth resources.
2345 Harrison St., San Francisco, CA 94110, Ph. 415 648 7070, Fax 415 648 6303, E-mail: info@andnet.org
• CENTER FOR YOUNG WOMEN'S DEVELOPMENT – www.cywd.org
The Center for Young Women's Development (CYWD) is one of the first non-profits in the United States run and led entirely by young women. From the beginning, we have organized young women who were the most marginalized in San Francisco - those in the street economies and the juvenile justice system - to design and deliver peer-to-peer education and support.
1550 Bryant St. # 700, San Francisco, CA 94103, Ph. 415 703 8800, Fax 415 703 8818
• Chinese for Affirmative Action – www.caasf.org
CAA was founded in 1969 to protect the civil and political rights of Chinese Americans and to advance multiracial democracy in the United States. Today, CAA is a progressive voice in and on behalf of the broader Asian and Pacific American community. We advocate for systemic change that protects immigrant rights, promotes language diversity, and remedies racial injustice.
17 Walter U. Lum Place, San Francisco, CA 94108, Ph. 415 274 6750, Fax 415 397 8770, E-mail info@caasf.org
• Jobs for Youth – jobsforyouth.net
221 Main St. # 300, San Francisco, CA 94105, Ph. 415 808 4313
• FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: American Indian Healing Center, Residential Treatment for Men and Women - San Francisco (415) 865-0964, Oakland (510) 535-7100
• PROJECT CONNECT – www.asisfsu.org/projectconnect
• NATIVE-AMERICAN TALENT WEBSITE – www.fourdirectionstalent.com
We are proud to introduce the only network-sponsored active website and searchable database created for Native American actors, comics, models, singers, writers and directors to post their headshots, resumes and demo reels. This site will provide a much-needed tool to be used by casting directors, talent agents, producers, and directors who are looking for Native American talent. The website also includes news and current events that relate to the Native American community and a place for job postings both in-front of and behind the camera. The website is sponsored by NBC Entertainment and the Oneida Indian Nation.
• Volunteer with SF WOMEN AGAINST RAPE! – www.sfwar.org/volunteers.html
• GENERATION FIVE– www.generationfive.org
generationFIVE envisions a future in which child sexual abuse no longer occurs. In this vision, the intergenerational impact of child sexual abuse is interrupted and mended. 3288 21st Street, #171, San Francisco, CA 94110, Phone: (415) 861-6658
• JIM HOPPER CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE RESOURCE PAGE www.jimhopper.com
Extensive resource page with information for men and women, child sexual abuse statistics on boys and girls, and links to research, healing resources, and articles on abuse and abuse prevention.
• MALE SURVIVOR – www.malesurvivor.com
MaleSurvivor conducts research, education, advocacy, and activism to promote prevention, treatment and elimination of sexual abuse of male children and adults. MaleSurvivor also provides online chat rooms that allow survivors and professionals to talk to each other. Toll Free: 1.800.738.4181
• CHILD MOLESTATION RESEARCH & PREVENTION INSTITUTE – a national science-based nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing child sexual abuse through research, education, and family support. Phone: (510) 530-7980
• COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE – www.cdi-usa.org
Provides youth leadership training: research, analysis and development in communities of color; and acts as a fiscal sponsor to several Bay Area organizations, PHONE: 650-327-5846
• AFRICAN AMERICAN PARENT CENTER
Since 1992, the center has provided parent education workshops to African-American parents and class trainers, focuses on culturally appropriate parenting practices from historical traditional perspectives. PHONE: 510-562-1283
• HOUSING RIGHTS - www.housingrights.org
Our goal is to eliminate discrimination in housing, prevent evictions and encourage diversity in our communities. PHONE: 510-548-8776
• INGLESIDE COMMUNITY CENTER, INC. – www.inglesidecc.org
For more than 15 years, the enter provides educational, recreational and employment placement services for high-risk youth and young adults. PHONE: 415-587-5513
• CENTER FOR FAMILY COUNSELING - www.ccfc.biz
Provides an array of free counseling services to families and youth at risk of becoming involved with the juvenile Justice system. PHONE: 510-562-3731
• EAST BAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS – www.eastbaycenter.org
Multicultural arts education programs and performance opportunities with socially relevant themes enhance self-esteem and academic skills while reducing violence among 3,000 disadvantage youth. PHONE: 510-234-5624
• AIDS PROJECT EAST BAY – www.apeb.org
Dedicated to serving individuals impacted with HIV/AIDS and supporting them through prevention education, primary medical care, research collaborations and advocacy. PHONE: 510-663-7979
• THE BAY AREA BLACK UNITED FUND – www.babuf.org
A non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring the needs of African American and other communities of color continue to be met by raising funds for community-based agencies. PHONE: 510-763-7270
• BLACK COALLITION ON AIDS – www.bcoa.org
Provides housing, case management, and other services, HIV prevention and education, and health promotion addressing other Black health disparities. PHONE: 415-615-9945
• G.O.A.L.S FOR WOMEN – www.goalsforwomen.org
Advocates for women and their families to ensure access and support to culturally appropriate mental and physical health services. PHONE: 510-985-0500
