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COMMUNITY RESOURCES
Refugee Action Center (IRAC), now
Southeast Asian Resource Action Center (SEARAC)
www.searac.org
SEARAC was founded in 1979 as the Indochina Refugee Action Center (IRAC) to facilitate the relocation of Southeast Asian refugees into American society and the development of nonprofit organizations led by and for Southeast Asians. Our principal mission is to advance the interests of Southeast Asian Americans. We promote community empowerment and leadership development. We are an advocate and key representative for the diverse Southeast Asian American community. As a national organization, we serve as a coalition builder and leader, facilitator, mediator, representative, and coordinator.
Adopted Vietnamese International (AVI)
www.adoptedvietnamese.org
An Australian and American website with the main aim to provide support, services and friendship to individuals who are adopted from Vietnam and to bridge the separation from their birth country, family and culture. This is a cooperative and sharing organization with community participation strongly encouraged from adoptees, parents, partners and the Vietnamese community.
Sao Mai (Morning Star of Asia)
www.zyworld.com/saomaimsa
Managed by Laura Speasmaker, a female Vietnam war Adoptee. This site serves as reunification web source for fathers, children & families created & separated by the war in Vietnam.
Vietnamese American Center (VAC)
www.vacsj.org
Vietnamese American Center (VAC) is a nonprofit
community-based organization located in San Jose, a
diverse ethnic and socioeconomic city of Santa Clara
County, California. Founded in 1999, VAC provides
Vietnamese traditional martial arts, homework center,
group and individual support and counseling,
cross-cultural/social adjustment, leadership
workshops, a weekly Vietnamese radio program, and
information and referral services to approximately
well over 1,000 youth and their families in the bay
area each year.
For more information, please contact Madison Nguyen,
Co-Founder and Executive Director at 408-823-9197.
Resources For Cross Cultural Health Care
www.diversityrx.org/HTML/rcproj.htm
RCCHC consults and trains; conducts research;
writes policy papers; and advocates at different levels for culturally
and linguistically appropriate health care for non-English speakers in
general.
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