The nation's oldest Asian Pacific American civil rights legal organization providing legal services, community education, and advocacy assistance to low-income people, with a focus on Asian and Pacific Islander immigrants and refugees. The ALC's multilingual staff offers services in the areas of civil rights, housing, employment, immigration and naturalization, and the rights of the elderly. This is accomplished through policy analysis, research, information dissemination, and community capacity building activities to assure that the health and welfare needs of Asian Pacific Islanders throughout the U.S. will be addressed. A shelter program for abused Asian women and their children. Provides safety, food, shelter, advocacy, and other resources to assist women in rebuilding violence-free lives.
Services are culturally appropriate and language accessible.
Has an on-call pool of multilingual advocates to respond to the wide range of Asian languages spoken in the Bay Area. To improve the health status of Asians and Pacific Islanders within the United States and its territories, with a special focus on the medically undeserved. This mission is to be accomplished by increasing the quality, accessibility and availability of comprehensive community based health care that is linguistically and culturally appropriate for these populations. A civil rights group addressing immigrant rights, bilingual access, voting rights, education, census count, telecommunications access, media, and the glass ceiling. A grassroots membership organization based in San Francisco's Chinatown that empowers the local Chinese American community and promotes justice and equality for all people.