Asian Alliance Against Domestic Violence (AAADV)
The Asian Alliance Against Domestic Violence (formerly known as Alliance Against Asian Domestic Violence) was formally established in 1997. AAADV consists of about a dozen community organizations that join together in organizing domestic violence awareness campaigns and in producing educational materials for the Asian and Pacific Islander communities to break the silence and cycle of domestic violence.

Food Stamps
To meet the needs of communities such as Chinatown, the Department of Human Services’ Food Stamps Program is bringing their services to the community. This service is a partnership between the San Francisco Department of Human Services’ Food Stamps Program and Cameron House. An eligibility worker is stationed at Cameron House on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month.

Scheduled appointments must be made. To make an appointment with an eligibility worker, please call (415) 558-4151. Assistance is available in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.

Chinatown Economic Self-Sufficiency Coalition
We are involved with 17 Chinatown and city wide agencies to look at what jobs and English skills Asian immigrants would need to gain economic self sufficiency through employment. Access to job training and learning English are areas that are being explored.

Asian Pacific Islander Health Parity Coalition
The API Health Parity Coalition seeks to improve the health and well-being of all Asians and Pacific Islanders. It seeks to address and advocate for services for API populations that are currently under utilizing services or being over looked by our health care systems.

D3 Youth Collaborative
A collaboration of youth agencies who meet monthly to explore ways of working together to improve and collaborate on services for youth in the Chinatown/Northbeach area. Cross training of staffs from all our agencies and planned activities with youth from all 8 agencies have occurred over the past year.

SF Neighborhood Centers Together
A collaboration of 9 Neighborhood Centers located throughout San Francisco have come together to learn from each other and seek funding for capacity building of our respective agencies. Through funding we have been able to hire an HR consultant who works with all nine agencies on HR issues, and training staff regarding labor laws, supervision, sexual harassment, hiring and interviewing. Other shared resource areas for the future include IT circuit rider, media or PR, and plant management.

NICOS
NICOS’s mission is “to enhance the health and well-being of San Francisco’s Chinese community”. Founded by 5 health agencies (North East Medical Services, Independent Practitioners Association, Chinese Hospital, On Lok Senior Health Services and Self Help for the Elderly, it has expanded to 38 health and social service agencies in San Francisco. It advocates for and has provided important health information on the Chinese population through community and health data research. NICOS heads the Chinese Community Problem Gambling Project, Chinatown Disaster Response Project and Outreach, enrollment and education program for Healthy Families and Healthy Kids.