The Asian Senior Health and Wellness Program is working with low-income limited English Speaking senior population in Contra Costa County where the Asian population represent about 19% of the County population of 1,165,927 people as of the 2020 Census. There are 408,537 estimated households in the county of which 36.3% (148,299) households that have residents who speak a language other than English at home.

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The seniors who are 60 years and older represent about 25% or 296,731 people of the county population.

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There are approximately 56,378 Asian seniors in the county. There are also 10,224 low-income Asian seniors who are Medical-and CalFresh recipients and many of these Asian seniors are disabled and homebound.

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The Asian Senior Health and Wellness program is to respond to needs of the limited English-Speaking Asian seniors who need assistance to access to services to meet their physical and mental health needs.

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The Asian Senior Digital Literacy Program is working in partnership the Community Tech Network and the Area of Aging Agency (AAA) of Contra Costa County to teach and train the Asian seniors how to use the iPad and navigate the internet in learning how to access to the services online. With the funding from the County that purchase the iPad and give to each senior who signed up for the program. The program hired two bilingual trainers who teaches over 137 seniors in the 12 months.

The Asian Nutrition is a part of the Food Security-Food Pantry program that serve the hot meal to more 40 Asian seniors who comes to the ABLE Community Resource Center to socialized and have nutrition foods together once a week. These seniors also have an opportunity to learn and gain the knowledge on how to manage his/her health issues such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and other common aging diseases through health presentations by the health nurses and health professionals.

The program is to recruit and train 10 bilingual community health workers and to enroll in training program to be a certified community health worker through the online training program provided by the Partner in Care Foundation who developed a very comprehensive community health worker training platform and curriculum with 4 training modules which include the following healthcare topics. 

MODULE 1—INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER

1-1: Who are Community Health Workers? 

1-2: Community Health in Context 

1-3: Insurance, Benefits and Resources 

1-4: Community Health Worker Care Coordination Process 

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MODULE 2—COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE BASE

2-1: Cultural Competence and Cultural Humility 

2-2: Health and Chronic Conditions 

2-3: Medication Adherence 

2-4 Health Behavior Theories and Health Behavior Change 

2-5: Social Risks and Social Needs 

2-6: Caregiving 

2-7: Stress and Trauma 

2-8: Mental Health and Substance Use  

2-9: Memory Loss 

2-10: Grief and Resilience 

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MODULE 3—COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

3-1: Education Skills 

3-2: Advocacy Skills 

3-3: Research and Evaluation 

3-4: Communication and Engagement 

3-5: Boundaries and Self-Care Skills 

3-6: Conflict Resolution Skills 

3-7: Crisis Intervention Skills 

3-8: Documentation Skills 

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MODULE 4—COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER BEST PRACTICES 

4-1: Care Team Dynamics 

4-2: Field Work and Home Visits 

4-3: Telephonic Care 

4-4: Community Health Workers’ Code of Ethics 

4-5: Safety, Risk and Privacy 

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In addition, the program is to engage with at least 100 families through community workshops and meetings to engage in the conversation on the issues related to the Behavorial health that are affecting the community.

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Stop the Hate program is a part of the Statewide initiative of the State Department of Social Services that oversee the program. It is in response to the racial incidences against Asians in the past several years. The program is to engage with the multi-racial community to promote the racial understanding and harmony in the communities of colors.

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