Recap & Event Forecast

Association of Chinese Americans, Inc.

密西根美华协会

February 7, 2019

The Association of Chinese Americans (ACA) wishes everyone: Happy Lunar New Year of The Pig-A Year Full of Peace, Joy and Prosperity!

Canton Chinese New Year Celebration was successfully held

On Friday, February 1, ACA successfully held the second Canton Spring Festival celebration in Canton. It was also the first time for ACA Lunar New Year celebration tradition open to the Greater Canton community.

The ACA Canton New Year celebration was strongly supported by Canton Summit, the AtHome Pharmacy, 168 Group, La Finesse Collection, the Tai Ho Restaurant and the Eastern Michigan University Healthy Asian American Project. In addition, the Canton Summit Center staff, Westland Senior Apartments Group, Canton and Westland art teams, Yuping Yan and the Kaufmann family have tremendously contributed to the success of the event.

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ACA Brings Domestic Violence Prevention Education Into The Community

On January 17th, the Association of Chinese Americans held the first community education campaign to prevent domestic violence, prevent abuse, and prevent fraud at ACA Detroit Service Center. The activity summarized some common but easily overlooked acts of domestic violence, abuse and fraud along with some resources from which help can be found. Violent abuse is not only commonly regarded as the physical violence, but also defined by other types of violence such as, assault, insults, cold violence, abuse of new immigrants or elder credit, restrictions on personal or financial freedom, restrictions on basic social and so on.

On February 23, Saturday, from 3PM to 5PM, ACA will hold the first Asian anti-violence community discussion meeting at Chinese Community Center. The event will be supported by the Healthy Asian American Program at the Eastern Michigan University. The main purpose of this community discussion meeting is to understand the domestic violence, abuse, etc. of the Asian community and conduct a certain degree of investigation. This will further benefit and develop the Asian community mental health services and humanities services.

ACA is planning to recruit about 10-15 volunteers, especially those who are or have suffered from domestic violence, bullying, abuse, cold violence, and limited life or financial freedom, to participate this meeting. At the same time, this seminar also welcomes enthusiastic volunteers who know or know that their friends are suffering from domestic violence. This discussion will be conducted anonymously and the discussion will not have any impact on the current family situation. In addition, all participants will receive a cash gift card for their volunteering efforts.

For registration and more details, please contact: Kaikai Chen, Program Manager for Community Health, at 248-585-9343 .

Upcoming Events

ACA Lunar New Year Banquet - Golden Harvest Restaurant

Customers who have already purchased tickets please pay attention to the time and place of the event, thank you for your participation!

Check-in starting at 5pm, February 9 ( Saturday).

Address: 6880 Twelve Mile Rd, Warren, MI 48092

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Lantern Festival at the Chinese Community Center

Lantern Festival with feature fun New Year games, New Year couplet writing, New Year hand-crafting and face-painting, food and snacks at the Chinese Community Center.

February 16 (Saturday) from 11am to 3pm

Address: 32585 Concord Drive, Madison Hts., MI 48071

Macomb Lunar New Year Celebration

Featuring various performances, delicious Chinese food, Chinese culture display and free health screening.

February 22 (Friday) from 11am to 1pm

Address: (VerKuilen Building, Door C Conference & Training Center) 21885 Dunham Rd, Clinton Township, MI 48036

Last Boat Out of Shanghai -- A talk and book signing by Helen Zia

Sponsored by Associations of Chinese Americans, will be held at Chinese Community Center on Feb. 24 (Sunday), starting from 1pm. Book ordering is $25 per copy. Limited copies are available. Come early and get yours counted!