The Sacramento Chinese Community Service Center
The Sacramento Chinese Community Service Center (the Center) was founded in 1978 to aid newly arrived Chinese immigrants in dealing with the myriad challenges of immigration and cultural adaptation. Today, we strive to honor and perpetuate each person's culture of origin. In the last few years we've expanded our programs to help non-Chinese immigrants, refugees and other disadvantaged groups including the Hmong, Mien, Vietnamese, Ukrainian and Russian populations in Sacramento. The Center serves more than 4,000 clients each year, including a significant number of at-risk youth and the elderly.
What's New at The Center?
Quarterly Newsletter:
With more than 26 programs and 15 after-school programs, there is always something going on at the Center. Download our newsletter to get the latest information about programming and current events:
The Center is Hiring!
The Center is currently hiring for full-time and part-time positions in health education and after-school programming. For more information, please visit our careers section of our website.
August Moon Photos:
See our event photos.
Robotics Competition:
Working with adult mentors, Hiram Johnson High School students have six weeks to design, build, program, and test their robots to meet the season’s engineering challenge, Rebound Rumble, starting January 7th.
The small team of students is excited about the FIRST Robotics Competition. They received a kit of parts made up of motors, batteries, a control system, a PC, and a mix of automation components – but no instructions.
“This year, NASA will be covering 100 percent of the registration costs for the Championship competition for each team that wins a regional Engineering Inspiration Award in the United States,” Charlie Bolden from NASA said. “Our NASA team can honestly say, we make a positive impact toward the future of our nation because of you.”
Key sponsors for the FIRST organization and programs include 300 of the top Fortune 500 companies. See a video of the process on our Facebook page.
This Month in ASES:
Library Gets Bright:
Pacific Elementary’s STAR Readers took a field trip to Belle Cooledge Community Library on Wednesday, December 21st. The students were eager to go to the library; some were visiting for the first time.
Upon arriving, students were able to go into the community room and participate in the Lego activity. Soon after, Donna, the children’s librarian, had the students sit on the carpet while she retold the well known short story of The Gingerbread Man. Donna retold the story using character felt pieces and the students were able to participate by chanting parts of the story.
The students were given a tour of the children’s area and had the opportunity to pick out their own books to read. Each STAR Readers student has turned in an application to get their own library card. Many students were excited about visiting Belle Cooledge and look forward to returning to check out their own books.
DIBELS assessment for elementary students in grades 1 to 3 will occur from January 16th to the 20th.
Take Our Survey:
We value our clients. The Center is always looking for ways to improve programming and find innovative ideas. This can only happen if we listen to our stakeholders and community. Please take a moment to share your thoughts.
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Professional Development:
The California Afterschool Program Quality Self-Assessment Tool (QSA Tool) is a collaborative project of the California Afterschool Network and the California Department of Education. The QSA Tool is organized into eleven program quality elements.
This year professional development topics have been gleaned from these eleven elements to enhance the quality of our sites at every level of programming.
Each month a different topic is delivered as a training module by our highly trained staff to our Program Managers who run each program site.