MIXING IT UP!

The Youth Action Team alongside other programs of the VFA met over the holiday season at the Lee House for some quality "mingle bells" and an ice cream social.

Phase Two Kick-Off!

“On December 2, 2011, over 100 youth, community members and City of Seattle Officials gathered to discuss findings from the Community Action Research and Empowerment (CARE) Project—which explores issues, challenges, and opportunities within the Vietnamese community of Seattle.”

http://vfaseattle.org/2011/12/06/care-community-gathering-a-success/

Next, the youth team will begin working with community members to draft a strategic action plan that can address issues identified from the research, and will be presented next Spring.

Halloween Fun

While in intense training, the Youth Action Team decides to dress up for Halloween while they work hard to plan the kick-off event for phase 2 of the Vietnamese Community Empowerment Project.

VFA CARE Community Gathering – english

VFA CARE Community Gathering – vietnamese

CARE Retreat-Phase 2

a new group of Youth Action Team members convened in Snoqualmie for a two-day retreat to get to know each and discuss the relevance and need for the CARE project.

Congratulations and welcome to the Vietnamese Friendship Association’s CARE project Phase 2.  In Phase 1, a community assessment report was done, and now in Phase 2 with the help of the new Youth Action Team we’ll focus on developing a strategic community action plan and to further build constituency so that the plan can be successfully implemented in Phase III.

Members:

• Vivian Dao: Sophomore, Psychology, University of Washington
• Anh Doan: Graduate, Finance,  Seattle University
• Chi Hoang: Senior, Sociology, University of Washington
• Trang Le: Senior, Biochemistry, University of Washington
• Khoi Nguyen: Junior, Bioengineering, University of Washington
• Minh Nguyen: Freshman, University of Washington
• Ton Nguyen: Senior, Biology, University of Washington
• Francis Tran: Freshman, Applied Mathematics, Seattle University
• Michelle Tran: Junior, University of Washington
• Amy Van: Senior, International Studies, University of Washington
• Tony Vo: Junior, Public Health, University of Washington

Facilitators:

• James Hong
• Trang Tu

The Final CARE Report

After analyzing and synthesizing the data gathered from the various focus groups, interviews, and surveys we have developed a report to accurately display what the community concerns, issues, and comments were.  The link below is the document that you can access and view to see what we found in the Vietnamese Community.

http://www.capaa.wa.gov/documents/vfa-care-report-final-2-14-11.pdf

Recap of Phase 1

The overall process of Phase 1 took approximately 1 year from Fall 2009-Fall 2010.

Thank you to all the support we have received and for offering your generous time to participate in our many forums, interviews, surveys, or focus groups.  Please watch this video to get a glimpse of what was achieved.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qYiv5UZRRNk

CARE Project Celebration

 

After a years worth of trainings, meetings, retreats, intense community forums, data crunching, surveying, and interviewing, the CARE project has finish phase one in gathering and synthesizing the data that has been collected.

 

Come Hear our Findings and Celebrate the Success of the CARE Project!

CARE presentation flier – Vietnamese v.2[1]

CARE presentation flier – English[1]

A First for the Vietnamese Community

These nine youths participated in a year’s worth of trainings, workshops, and retreats to give back to their Vietnamese community.  Come join them on Oct. 22nd to find out what their data shows as the greatest needs and concerns for the Vietnamese people are. 

(Top) Paul Le, Verlinda Vu, Nghia Nguyen (Middle) Tony Vo, Cuong Nguyen, Rosa Nguyen (Bottom) Vivian Dao, Tanner Phan, and Ton Nguyen