Dear Friends and Community Supporters,
 
API Equality and Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) are partnering with the Family Acceptance Project at San Francisco State University's César E. Chávez Institute to develop tools and resources for Chinese and API Families to learn how to accept and love their LGBT children.
 
As part of this project, we want to talk with parents of LGBT children to ask their advice on developing education materials in Chinese and English for families and providers in the community.  Initial research has already been done with many LGBT youth and young adults and their families to understand how family acceptance and rejection affects the health, mental health and well-being of LGBT young people.  We want to follow up on the initial research by talking to the parents and family members with LGBT young people to ask their advice to develop family education materials for Asian / Chinese families.
 
Attached is a copy of our announcement in Chinese and English.   We hope you could put it in your notice boards.  Please let me know if you need me to send copies by regular mail.   We need your help to disseminate this information as well as to publicize our confidential discussions with individual families.   Families interested in speaking with us to help with this work are encouraged to call Amos Lim () at 415.274.6760 or email alim@....  All discussions with families will be kept confidential.  We will give each family $50 for talking with us. Our meeting is expected to last about 2 hours.  We will meet with families wherever it is convenient for them, including CAA's office in Chinatown, the César E. Chávez Institute office in the mission or any other location that families prefer.

 

Please help us develop these important family education materials.

We really appreciate your help.

 

--------in Chinese---------------

 

 

親愛的組織者，

 

亞裔平等聯盟和華人權益促進會（ CAA） 与舊金山州立大學的家庭采納項目， 準備開發教育材料， 為亞裔家庭提供如何接納他們 有同性戀傾向的子女。

 

作為該項目的一部分， 我們希望能与家長談談﹐ 資詢他們對所發展的中文和英語教育材料有何意見。 初步的研究讓我們訪問了 許多同性戀青年﹐  成年人和他們的家人， 來了解家庭的接受或拒絕會影響同性戀兒女的健康、 心理健康和福利。 我們想借這機會 來跟進初步的研究跟父母和家庭成員談一談﹐  資詢他們的意見， 以大力的為亞裔家庭發展家庭教育材料。

 

我們附上一份中英文版本的公告﹐ 希望你們可以把它放在你的告示板上。如果你需要我們將公告拷貝給你﹐ 請讓我知道，我會以普通郵件發送給你。我們需要您的幫助，以傳播這資料，以及宣傳所有的討論是保密的。

 

有興趣協助我們的家庭， 請致電給林明利  415.274.6760 或電子郵件 alim@... 。 所有的討論將被保密。 我們會給予每個家庭50元 來跟我們交談。 交談歷時大約2個小時﹐ 將會為家人的方便來決定交談地點， 包括在唐人街華人權益促進會的辦公室﹐ 舊金山州立大學 MISSOON ST  的辦公室。

 

請幫助我們發展這個重要的家庭教育材料。

 

謝謝你們的幫助。

 

 

Amos Lim, , Community Organizer

API Equality | www.apiequality.org (new site!)

17 Walter U. Lum Place, San Francisco, CA 94108

 

415-274-6760 ext. 306  |  415-397-8770 (f)  |  alim@...