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To Recognize and Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Asian American Community Services
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WHEREAS, for forty years, Asian American Community Services, has acted as a remarkable non-profit and community-based organization dedicated to providing social services and empowering Asian Americans and Asian immigrant families in the City of Columbus and Central Ohio; and
WHEREAS, Asian American Community Services was founded in 1976 by Dr. Shuh-Chai Lee as a small faith based organization and has since then grown into an organization that has a substantial and meaningful impact upon the communities that it serves; and
WHEREAS, Asian American Community Services supports and guides Asian families as they adapt and integrate into American society by providing interpreters for the Asian community to hospitals, social services agencies, police departments, courts, and schools; and afterschool tutoring, mentoring; and
WHEREAS, Asian American Community services provides leadership training through their Youth and Family Services Department, and works to reduce health disparities facing the Asian community through work done by their Health Care and Prevention Department; and
WHEREAS, Asian American Community Services is part of the Ohio Attorney General’s Human Trafficking Commission, and has been nominated for Liberators Awards for anti-human trafficking advocacy, and also serves as a member of the Voter Engagement Project which promotes nonpartisan voter registration, education, assistance with absentee ballots, and youth civic engagement events; and
WHEREAS, for forty years, Asian American Community Services has proven to be sincerely dedicated to uplifting and providing aid to the Asian American and Asian immigrant communities and will no doubt continue to do so in the future; now, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
That this Council does hereby recognize and celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Asian American Community Services and its...
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