The Afghan Coalition - Approved

• A community-based organization that helps the refugee community and Afghan families in the Fremont area to have access to all services that are available to them. This agency offers programs such as support group for women, youth leadership program, community training, community events, health navigation and advocacy, mental health services, case management, I&R, and youth tutoring and mentorship.
• • Owner
    Shefali Dutt
  • Created On
    07-21-2016
  • Updated On
    01-25-2021
  • Update Reminder
    N/A

• How To Contact

  • Name
    General Contact
  • Phone
    (510) 745-1680
  • Fax
    N/A
  • Email
    tonya@afghancoalition.org
  • Address
    39155 Liberty St.
  • Address 2
    Suite D 460
  • City
    Fremont
  • State
    CA

• More Information

  • Start Date
    08-14-2017
  • Expiration Date
    N/A
  • Eligibility
    free
  • Fee
    0.00
  • Organization
    Fremont Family Resource Center
  • Zip Code
    94538

• Helpful Links

  • Main Program URL
    http://www.afghancoalition.org/
  • Afghan Coalition Home
    https://www.afghancoalition.org/
  • Services
    https://www.afghancoalition.org/services
  • About Us
    https://www.afghancoalition.org/about-us

• Detailed Information

  • Formed in 1996, Afghan Coalition is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community organization. We are dedicated to strengthening Afghan families, improving their access to social services, and building a strong and united Afghan American community. Located at the Family Resource Center in Fremont, California, the Afghan Coalition is the largest Afghan-American organization in the United States. Serving over 1,000 community members per year, particularly immigrant women and children, bilingual/bicultural advocates bridge the language and cultural gaps between community members and financial and social services.

    List of programs:

    The Afghan Coalition provides a variety of different services to the community. The AC is working to train and support community members to be civic-ally engaged so that they can create positive and effective change in community.

    
    

    The Afghan Coalition also provides many services that are available to the public including: Cultural Counseling, assistance with Social Services, job-hunting, and translation. Other services include:

     

    • Mental Health Counseling

    • Domestic Violence Classes

    • Micro-enterprise Project

    • Youth Programs 

    • ESL classes

    • Advocacy

    
    

    Programs: 

    Afghan Wellness Project?

    The Prevention and Early Intervention Project is designed to provide culturally sensitive prevention and early intervention mental health services and increase access to mental health treatment for Afghans living in Alameda County. The Afghan Wellness Project works with individuals who reside in Alameda County and identify themselves as part of the Afghan community. The AWP works with those who are isolated and trauma-exposed, new immigrants of all ages, stressed families, especially those with children 0-5, children and youth at risk for school failure, children and youth at risk of juvenile justice involvement and any individual at risk of early onset of serious mental illness.

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    Youth Program

    The Youth Program is part of the Afghan Wellness Project, which focuses on youth and their challenges. Our youth workers are community helpers that have completed over 60 hours of mental health training in prevention and early intervention and provide the following services:

    
    

    Domestic Violence Support 

    Afghan women and men often suffer silently from sexual assault and domestic violence. They are often made to feel trapped and told that resources do not exist to assist them. Common information that is communicated to them in the Afghan culture from their perpetrators is that they will have no where to live, have little to no financial support, they will be sent back to Afghanistan, no one will believe them or that the court will think they are crazy and take away their children.
    
    Individuals in domestically violent situations or survivors of sexual assault are afraid to leave their current circumstances or seek assistance. The Afghan Coalition is here to help. The Afghan Coalition provides a one-stop shop for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
    

    
    TEAM and CHANGES 

    Feel like your phone or gas bill is getting higher every month? See charges that you don't recognize or were you scammed into

    purchasing a phone plan that you don't need? TEAM and CHANGES will help you cut back on any extra utility charges you shouldn't be paying for.

    
    
    Afghan Coalition Community Kitchen

    The Afghan Coalition Community Kitchen is a key piece in building economic opportunity, environmental sustainability, and community health. By creating the infrastructure for local food production, the kitchen will support micro-enterprise development, cooking and nutrition classes, and food preparation for food insecure community members. This business plan represents the current thinking of the Afghan Coalition. This plan is based on significant research and demonstrates the ability for kitchen operations to produce income to meet expenses. The Afghan Coalition intends to continue its research and refine this plan further between now and when kitchen starting the classes. The updated plan will be shared with Afghan Coalition board, funders and other stakeholders upon request.
    

    
    

    Afghan Women's Breast Help Program
    
    
    

    Led by principal investigator Aida Shirazi, the Afghan Coalition collaborated with the University of California, Berkeley researchers in a recent pilot study known as “Breast Health Behaviors of Afghan Immigrant Women in Northern California.
    ” Early detection and treatment of breast cancer can save lives." Despite evidence that early detection leads to decreased breast cancer mortality, it continues to be underused by minority women, especially new immigrants.

     
    

    Micro-Enterprise Project

    ?The Afghan Coalition is dedicated to helping immigrant and refugee women create economic opportunities for themselves and their families. Since 2007, the Afghan Coalition’s emerging micro enterprise program has offered training in handicrafts, business training and English classes to women who have been under-served by the existing entrepreneurship training programs. In response to a formal strategic planning process in the summer of 2009, micro enterprise development and women’s empowerment was identified as a strategic direction for the Afghan Coalition. To this end, the Coalition is working to further develop this program to promote economic self-sufficiency for under-served and very low income Afghan women, many of whom rely on government assistance and suffer from multiple hardships. 
    
    

    Immigration Lawyer

    Sima Alizadeh is an Immigration Attorney at Pars Equality Center, a nonprofit organization, aimed at serving low-income Middle Eastern and South Asian communities of the Bay Area and Los Angeles, with both legal and social services. She has served as an Attorney Volunteer for AILA’s Mesa Verde Detention Project and she actively contributes to AILA’s Middle Eastern Interest Group (MEIG).

    
    

• Eligibility Information

  • States
  • Counties
    • Alameda County
  • Cities
    • Fremont, CA
  • Zipcodes
  • School Districts
  • Age Groups
    • All Age Groups
  • Languages Served
    • English
    • Farsi
  • Family Incomes
  • Insurance Providers

• Files