Social Services /Domestic Violence Program Coordinator
Part Time Position Opening at the ACCC

Job Description

Job Summary

The Social Services/Domestic Violence Program Coordinator will work as part of a team to ensure that the goals of the Social Services program in serving the needs of immigrant Arab families (women, immigrants (men, women and children) are met. The SSC will be in charge of several program duties and responsibilities that enhance the organization's mission in serving the Arab American Bay Area community.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conducts client intake to obtain information to assess client needs and draw a plan of services and referrals needed for low-income, new immigrant and domestic violence survivors.
• Provide telephone advocacy, information and referral to Arabic-speaking callers.
• Along with Youth program director works as a liaison with agencies that serve the Arabic-speaking clients, and provide agencies with helpful resources to better serve Arab/ Muslim clients.
• Coordinate ESL and other life skills programming
• Promote awareness of the ACCC and its mission in the community through participating at community service fairs, public events, annual women's conference and cultural festival.
• Coordinate and actively engage volunteers
• Provide cultural competency trainings for service providers in the Bay Area with an emphasis on violence prevention education.
• Solicit financial and in-kind donations
• Develop violence prevention and women's programming
• Maintain and promote the ACCC –Community Resource Guide and update and add new agency information for bettering our agency's referral service.
• Provide translation and interpretation services as needed for ACCC clients
• Contribute to ACCC newsletter and website

Requirements:

• Fluent in Arabic (spoken)
• Attend domestic violence training
• Proficient in Microsoft Office

Benefits:

• 24 hours weekly
• Pay: commensurate

Job start date: July 30th 2012
Training dates: July 17 – 19, 2012

To apply

Resumes will be accepted through May 18, 2012 by 5PM

Please send your resume and cover letter to Vera Inoue-Terris and Loubna Qutami: 

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If you have questions please call us at (415) 664-2200

Donation from Rockridge Kids

The Arab Cultural and Community Center has a long-standing presence in the city of San Francisco, yet over the years our programs and services have spilled over to benefit the greater Bay Area. The same is true of our community partnerships. These partnerships and contributions from local business owners have been vital to serving our clients. This December, we worked on the case of a young social services client who had recently left a domestic violence shelter. As she started the difficult process of building a new life she prematurely gave birth to her child. Mother and child are both doing well now, but since the birth happened much earlier than expected both mother and the Center were unprepared to provide crucial necessities. The Center immediately turned to Rockridge Kids, an awesome, local business that has been in the community for over 30 years. The amazing staff at Rockridge Kids understood the urgency of our client's situation and donated warm gifts for the new December baby. Rockridge Kids only provides quality products that are gentle for new babies, which is especially important for a child as vulnerable as a newborn. Rockridge Kids, in conjunction with the Tulip Grove, also offers education and fitness courses for soon-to-be and new mothers. We are thankful for Rockridge Kids and their commitment to community and to maternal wellness. We encourage our ACCC members to patronize businesses like Rockridge Kids that invest in the community this holiday season and year round!

For more information or to visit:

Rockridge Kids

5511 College Avenue Oakland, CA 94618

(510) 601-5437

www.rockridgekidsstore.com

The story you just read is one of many cases we work on a daily basis. If you are interested in donating for a specific need or to our Social Services General Fund that helps with emergency housing, food and evacuation of women and children from unsafe homes on a monthly basis, please contact Christina or Vera in social services at 415-664-2200.

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New Video of the 17th Annual Arab Cultural Festival

Thanks to the tireless work of our staff member Vera Inoue-Terris and a community volunteer, Yona Edell, we now have this fantastic video of our 17th Annual Arab Cultural Festival, which was held on October 1st of 2011 in Union Square. The video shows the breadth of performances and booths at the festival, as well as showcasing the community feel and vast audience that came out to share the day with us.

We also have an Arabic-language version of the video! In it, our former Executive Director, Dr. Sally Al Daher, talks about the Arab Cultural Festival and the ACCC's programs and goals.

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Sign an online petition to help save NYC’s “Little Syria”

Community members have contacted the ACCC to publicize their petition to designate New York City’s “Little Syria” as a historical district. The organizers of thsi petition see historical designation as a means by which the Arab presence in New York (and in America at large) can be acknowledged.

From the organizers: "Throughout its long, illustrious history, New York City has seen waves of immigrants from all corners of the globe, who have all left a mark. The Jewish people have the Lower East Side, the Italians have Little Italy and the Chinese have Chinatown. Many other ethnic groups have numerous protected historical buildings and districts in New York, but what do Arab Americans have? Let us stand up for our roots, culture and foundations in this country. Arab Americans have been coming to the United States for well over one hundred years and to Washington Street since 1870! Let us secure a concrete feeling of "place" for our substantial part of the American story. We as Arab Americans deserve this recognition and respect just as every other nationality and ethnic group in the United States, and the Landmarks Commission should designate all three remaining buildings into a historical district."

You can help by signing the petition here. 

At the left is a picture from the New York Times showing people sampling Syrian pasteries in a shop in New York in 1946.