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  1. Adelante Inc.
  2. Arc of Massachusetts
  3. Asian Center of Merrimack Valley Inc.
  4. Barton Center for Diabetes Education/Clara Barton Camp
  5. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cape Cod and The Islands
  6. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Franklin County
  7. Boston Cares
  8. Boston Center for the Arts
  9. Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center
  10. Boston Early Music Festival
  11. Boston Modern Orchestra Project
  12. Boston Women's Fund
  13. Boys & Girls Club of Martha's Vineyard
  14. Brush Art Gallery
  15. Cambridge School Volunteers
  16. Cantata Singers
  17. Centastage Performance Boston
  18. Center for Coastal Studies
  19. City on a Hill
  20. Coalition for Buzzards Bay
  21. Committee of Ten Thousand
  22. Community Art Center
  23. Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts
  24. Connecticut River Watershed Council
  25. Danforth Museum of Art
  26. DEAF Inc.
  27. Dynamy
  28. Fairbanks House
  29. Food Bank of Western Massachusetts
  30. Food Project
  31. Framingham Adult ESL Program
  32. FriendshipWorks (formerly MATCH-UP Interfaith Volunteers)
  33. Girls Inc. of Holyoke
  34. Gloucester Fishermen's Wives
  35. Harwich Junior Theatre
  36. Homeowners Options for Massachusetts Elders
  37. Horizons for Homeless Children
  38. Hospitality Homes
  39. Independence House
  40. International Institute of Boston
  41. Jewish Family Service of Metrowest
  42. Joy of Music Program
  43. Lawrence Family Development & Education Fund, Charter School
  44. Ludlow Boys & Girls Club
  45. MAB Community Services
  46. Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences
  47. Massachusetts 4-H Foundation
  48. Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange
  49. Massachusetts Alliance on Teen Pregnancy
  50. MASSPIRG
  51. Mediation Works Inc.
  52. Mobile Diagnostic Services
  53. Mujeres Unidas en Acción (Women United in Action)
  54. National Education for Assistance Dog Services
  55. New Bedford Whaling Museum
  56. New England Network for Child, Youth and Family Services
  57. New England Wild Flower Society
  58. North Bennet Street School
  59. Notre Dame Education Center, S. Boston
  60. Partners for Youth with Disabilities
  61. Pernet Family Health Services
  62. Preservation Massachusetts (formerly Historic Massachusetts)
  63. Quincy Interfaith Sheltering Coalition
  64. ROCA
  65. Samaritans
  66. Save the Harbor/Save the Bay
  67. Schooner Ernestina Commission
  68. SHARE
  69. Shelter Legal Services Foundation
  70. Sight Loss Services
  71. Solutions at Work
  72. Stone Community Computing Center
  73. STRIVE
  74. Summer Fund, AGM
  75. Talking Information Center
  76. Teen Voices
  77. Toxics Action Center
  78. Windhover Dance Festival
  79. Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts
  80. Woods Hole Research Center
  81. Zumix

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Asian Center of Merrimack Valley Inc.

CONTACT:

1 Ballard Way
Lawrence, MA 01843
978-683-7316
www.asiancentermv.org

Kaori Kelts, Executive Director

Donate Now to Asian Center of Merrimack Valley Inc.

DESCRIPTION:

Since 1987, the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Asian Center has welcomed Asian refugee immigrants newly arrived in greater Lawrence with food, shelter, clothing, medical attention, interpretive services, legal services, in-home ESL tutoring, and counseling. In 1997, the Center noticed a trend among Asian youth to quit school as early as the fifth grade, join gangs, and in some instances fall into drugs and prostitution. "We have observed Cambodian and Vietnamese youth, totally Americanized and achieving very good literacy skills, become ashamed of their parents, their culture, their language and their poverty, causing them to abandon their homes and families."

The Center's response has been to reach out to the parents who, because it takes longer for them than for their children to adjust to our new culture and language, have virtually lost control of their teenage children. Its program, "Bridging Cultures" uses lectures, role-playing, interviews and discussions, to affirm parents' native culture and history while encouraging literacy and improved communicataion skills with their children.

Several years ago the Center also began an early-adolescent youth group where some of the alienated teens could meet peers who have opted for lifestyles free of gangs and drugs, and engage in community projects to reinforce sound decision-making and a sense of responsibility for actions. The Center needs funds to continue these programs.

(1997: HUMAN SERVICES: Children and Youth: General)

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