This page is for material removed from the article Chinatown, Oakland, California.
National Register of Historic Places -
Note: references for future edits
Entire section reads like directory. Both conventional Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine with acupuncture and herbology are found in Chinatown.
Asian Health Services is a community health center ( Federally Qualified Health Center) serving the local immigrant community. Its staff is bilingual or multilingual in nine different languages: English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Korean, Tagalog, Cambodian, Lao, and Mien.
Asian Community Mental Health Services The core competencies of its staff reflect a wide spectrum of age groups, immigrant/refugee cultural status and language fluency in 13 Asian & Pacific Islander (A&PI) languages/dialects: Cambodian, Cantonese, Japanese, Khmu, Korean, Lao, Mandarin, Malay, Mien, Tagalog, Thai, Toishan, and Vietnamese.
Asian Pacific Psychological Services. A community-based mental health agency that provides linguistically and culturally competent mental health services to the Asian Pacific community, particularly immigrant and refugee families. The APPS Family Violence Management and Prevention Program focuses on the following components: prevention and education (through counseling and education for children and youth); and services for survivors (crisis intervention, individual and family therapy, medication treatment, case management). (Languages: Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Mien, Tagalog and Vietnamese.)
Asian Outreach Program Alta Bates Summit Medical Center
Chinese American Physicians' Society (CAPS)
Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences - Master of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine. The teaching clinic is a clinical program of Traditional Chinese Medicine that is open to the public, provides high quality care at low cost, and offers a complete alternative medicine service to the community.
Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center - A Community Center for Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Services in 20 languages including: Chinese, Hawaiian, Hindi, Ilokano, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Malay, Tagalog, Thai, Vietnamese and Visayan. website
Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO) is a 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. website
Entire section reads like directory. Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum is a national advocacy organization dedicated to promoting policy, program, and research efforts to improve the health and well-being of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.
Family Bridges, formerly Oakland Chinese Community Council
Wa Sung Community Service Club and Wa Sung Charity Fund. Funds for community services are derived from fund raising projects including the annual Easter Pancake Breakfast, the East Bay Community Directory, A Chef's Delight (food & wine event), and from direct donations.
Salvation Army Chinatown Corps Community Center, 380 - 11th Street, Older Adult Services, Worship Center, and Youth Services. Adult Rehabilitation Center, 601 Webster Street. Korean Corps Community Center, 1601 6th Avenue. Older Adult Services and Worship Center. Thrift Store, 601 Webster Street.
International Institute of the East Bay - Provides essential social and legal services to immigrant and refugee communities in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, and resources and referral services for immigrant battered women.
Shimtuh - Korean Community Center of the East Bay - Shimtuh’s helpline provides the Korean American community with referrals for shelter, legal help, and professional counseling, assistance with social service benefits. (Language: Korean)
Oakland Unified School District Adult Schools
Directory sounding, again
National Landmarks in Alameda County Sequenced By City and Address
Lincoln Square Recreation Center [2] City of Oakland Office of Parks and Recreation. [2] [3] [4]
Lincoln Square has a junk boat play structure built in 1969.
Oakland Chinatown Chinese Garden at Harrison Railroad Park, 275 Seventh Street. photos
Madison Square and Lake Merritt BART Station park, Madison at 8th Street - site of early morning Tai Chi Chuan and other exercise programs. photos
OaklandNet/Opportunities: Development Opportunities: Retail: Downtown: Chinatown background information about business in Chinatown
Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, 388 9th Street Suite 258
Korean Chamber of Commerce
Oakland Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce, 412 8th Street, #D
East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC) is a community economic development organization dedicated to the betterment of the East Bay community, particularly the low-income and Asian and Pacific Islander population, through development of physical, human and economic assets for individuals and community organizations.
In 2001 there were approximately ninety garment-factories (sometimes referred to as sewing sweatshops) in Oakland, many in or near Chinatown. By 2004, many have closed with the work being done overseas.
See Chinatown Community Information Book 2001, Alameda County Public Health Department.
Chinese American Citizens Alliance
Oakland Chinese Community Center
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA) Works primarily with low income Asian immigrant women employed as seamstresses, hotel room cleaners, nursing home aides, and electronics assemblers in the Bay Area and Santa Clara county. Seeks to empower women by helping them to exercise their rights and develop the skills necessary to advocate for justice and dignity in their lives and workplaces.
Filipinos for Affirmative Action
Asian Pacific Environmental Network seeks to empower low-income Asian Pacific Islander (API) communities to achieve environmental and social justice.
Oakland Consolidated Chinese Associations, an umbrella group for twelve family associations: Bing Kong Tong Association, Zhong Shan Doo Tao Association, Chung Shan Family Association, Gee How Oak Tin Association, Toi Shan Benevolent Association, Lee Family Benevolent Association, Loong Kong Tien Yee Association, Soo Yuen Benevolent Association, Tai Land Lim's Family Association, Toishan Association, Wong Family Association, Wu Yi Friendship Association
Vietnamese American Cultural & Educational Association of the Bay Area
Korean Community Center of the East Bay
Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach (formerly Nihonmachi Legal Outreach), is a non-profit law firm that focuses on family law; immigration; and domestic violence, particularly elder abuse. It has a domestic violence prevention program for API youth. Serves the Greater Bay Area with offices in San Francisco and Oakland in more than a dozen languages and dialects including Cantonese, Chiu-Chow, Hindi, Ilocano, Japanese, Korean, Lao, Mandarin, Spanish, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Urdu, and Vietnamese. website
Oakland Asian Cultural Center [3]
The Asian Resources Gallery is located in the hallway of the Asian Resources Center at 308 8th Street.
The Oakland Asian Cultural Center at 388 9th Street, Ste 290, includes a Permanent Exhibit of Oakland's 19th Century San Pablo Avenue Chinatown. Current Exhibit is Costumes of Kathak: The Classical Dance of North India from May to November 2005. Monday through Friday 10am -5pm, Saturdays 11am - 4pm.
The Oakland Museum of California is located at 10th & Oak Streets at the south portion of Chinatown.
Flo Oy Wong - Gallery - Drawings - Oakland Chinatown Series 1983- 1991
Friends of Asian Library Year of the Monkey 2004
Chinatown Pioneers
Hall of Pioneers Gallery, Oakland Chinatown Chinese Garden, 275 Seventh St., Oakland. Open Monday - Friday 10 am to 4 pm, no charge. Exhibit of "local individuals who helped to establish Oakland's Chinatown or who made major contributions to the Chinese people in America"; selected by the Oakland Chinese History Research Committee.
This page is for material removed from the article Chinatown, Oakland, California.
National Register of Historic Places -
Note: references for future edits
Entire section reads like directory. Both conventional Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine with acupuncture and herbology are found in Chinatown.
Asian Health Services is a community health center ( Federally Qualified Health Center) serving the local immigrant community. Its staff is bilingual or multilingual in nine different languages: English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Korean, Tagalog, Cambodian, Lao, and Mien.
Asian Community Mental Health Services The core competencies of its staff reflect a wide spectrum of age groups, immigrant/refugee cultural status and language fluency in 13 Asian & Pacific Islander (A&PI) languages/dialects: Cambodian, Cantonese, Japanese, Khmu, Korean, Lao, Mandarin, Malay, Mien, Tagalog, Thai, Toishan, and Vietnamese.
Asian Pacific Psychological Services. A community-based mental health agency that provides linguistically and culturally competent mental health services to the Asian Pacific community, particularly immigrant and refugee families. The APPS Family Violence Management and Prevention Program focuses on the following components: prevention and education (through counseling and education for children and youth); and services for survivors (crisis intervention, individual and family therapy, medication treatment, case management). (Languages: Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Mien, Tagalog and Vietnamese.)
Asian Outreach Program Alta Bates Summit Medical Center
Chinese American Physicians' Society (CAPS)
Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences - Master of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine. The teaching clinic is a clinical program of Traditional Chinese Medicine that is open to the public, provides high quality care at low cost, and offers a complete alternative medicine service to the community.
Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center - A Community Center for Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Services in 20 languages including: Chinese, Hawaiian, Hindi, Ilokano, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Malay, Tagalog, Thai, Vietnamese and Visayan. website
Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO) is a 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. website
Entire section reads like directory. Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum is a national advocacy organization dedicated to promoting policy, program, and research efforts to improve the health and well-being of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.
Family Bridges, formerly Oakland Chinese Community Council
Wa Sung Community Service Club and Wa Sung Charity Fund. Funds for community services are derived from fund raising projects including the annual Easter Pancake Breakfast, the East Bay Community Directory, A Chef's Delight (food & wine event), and from direct donations.
Salvation Army Chinatown Corps Community Center, 380 - 11th Street, Older Adult Services, Worship Center, and Youth Services. Adult Rehabilitation Center, 601 Webster Street. Korean Corps Community Center, 1601 6th Avenue. Older Adult Services and Worship Center. Thrift Store, 601 Webster Street.
International Institute of the East Bay - Provides essential social and legal services to immigrant and refugee communities in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, and resources and referral services for immigrant battered women.
Shimtuh - Korean Community Center of the East Bay - Shimtuh’s helpline provides the Korean American community with referrals for shelter, legal help, and professional counseling, assistance with social service benefits. (Language: Korean)
Oakland Unified School District Adult Schools
Directory sounding, again
National Landmarks in Alameda County Sequenced By City and Address
Lincoln Square Recreation Center [2] City of Oakland Office of Parks and Recreation. [2] [3] [4]
Lincoln Square has a junk boat play structure built in 1969.
Oakland Chinatown Chinese Garden at Harrison Railroad Park, 275 Seventh Street. photos
Madison Square and Lake Merritt BART Station park, Madison at 8th Street - site of early morning Tai Chi Chuan and other exercise programs. photos
OaklandNet/Opportunities: Development Opportunities: Retail: Downtown: Chinatown background information about business in Chinatown
Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, 388 9th Street Suite 258
Korean Chamber of Commerce
Oakland Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce, 412 8th Street, #D
East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC) is a community economic development organization dedicated to the betterment of the East Bay community, particularly the low-income and Asian and Pacific Islander population, through development of physical, human and economic assets for individuals and community organizations.
In 2001 there were approximately ninety garment-factories (sometimes referred to as sewing sweatshops) in Oakland, many in or near Chinatown. By 2004, many have closed with the work being done overseas.
See Chinatown Community Information Book 2001, Alameda County Public Health Department.
Chinese American Citizens Alliance
Oakland Chinese Community Center
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA) Works primarily with low income Asian immigrant women employed as seamstresses, hotel room cleaners, nursing home aides, and electronics assemblers in the Bay Area and Santa Clara county. Seeks to empower women by helping them to exercise their rights and develop the skills necessary to advocate for justice and dignity in their lives and workplaces.
Filipinos for Affirmative Action
Asian Pacific Environmental Network seeks to empower low-income Asian Pacific Islander (API) communities to achieve environmental and social justice.
Oakland Consolidated Chinese Associations, an umbrella group for twelve family associations: Bing Kong Tong Association, Zhong Shan Doo Tao Association, Chung Shan Family Association, Gee How Oak Tin Association, Toi Shan Benevolent Association, Lee Family Benevolent Association, Loong Kong Tien Yee Association, Soo Yuen Benevolent Association, Tai Land Lim's Family Association, Toishan Association, Wong Family Association, Wu Yi Friendship Association
Vietnamese American Cultural & Educational Association of the Bay Area
Korean Community Center of the East Bay
Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach (formerly Nihonmachi Legal Outreach), is a non-profit law firm that focuses on family law; immigration; and domestic violence, particularly elder abuse. It has a domestic violence prevention program for API youth. Serves the Greater Bay Area with offices in San Francisco and Oakland in more than a dozen languages and dialects including Cantonese, Chiu-Chow, Hindi, Ilocano, Japanese, Korean, Lao, Mandarin, Spanish, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Urdu, and Vietnamese. website
Oakland Asian Cultural Center [3]
The Asian Resources Gallery is located in the hallway of the Asian Resources Center at 308 8th Street.
The Oakland Asian Cultural Center at 388 9th Street, Ste 290, includes a Permanent Exhibit of Oakland's 19th Century San Pablo Avenue Chinatown. Current Exhibit is Costumes of Kathak: The Classical Dance of North India from May to November 2005. Monday through Friday 10am -5pm, Saturdays 11am - 4pm.
The Oakland Museum of California is located at 10th & Oak Streets at the south portion of Chinatown.
Flo Oy Wong - Gallery - Drawings - Oakland Chinatown Series 1983- 1991
Friends of Asian Library Year of the Monkey 2004
Chinatown Pioneers
Hall of Pioneers Gallery, Oakland Chinatown Chinese Garden, 275 Seventh St., Oakland. Open Monday - Friday 10 am to 4 pm, no charge. Exhibit of "local individuals who helped to establish Oakland's Chinatown or who made major contributions to the Chinese people in America"; selected by the Oakland Chinese History Research Committee.