AACHI at a Glance
- We've helped 430 clients access health care and social services so far this year. Compared to last year, we're helping even more folks as this is an 8% increase in total clients assisted.
- 95.4% of our clients are fully vaccinated and/or boosted compared to the whole of Texas at 62.9%.
- 87.6% of AACHI's clients are currently enrolled in health insurance or coverage options (such as MAP), which is 6% more than the total percentage of Texans who have health coverage.
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A warm welcome to our new Board Directors...
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Check out their bios & learn more about these amazing folks here: Kitty, Phu, Jimmy.
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Recent Community Outreach:
A BIG thanks to our partners who worked with us to ensure resources are accessible to our communities!
- AISD invited AACHI to participate in their Back to School event on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022. Services for students include FREE COVID-19 & childhood immunizations, school supplies, haircuts, dental & vision exams, & prizes. AACHI was a vendor at the event providing multilingual resources, translations, COVID-tests, & KN45 masks.
- AACHI staff volunteered at the Open Eyes Beyond Border Back to School event on Sunday August 21st at Barrington Elementary School. Services included vision, Dental, Wellness, COVID-19 vaccines, school supplies & other community resources.
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Left: Our Community Health Navigator, Kathy Trinh, speaking to a community member about our services at the Vietnamese American Community of Austin Texas (VACAT)'s Tet event.
Right: To ensure we reached communities most vulnerable to COVID-19, we performed language-accessible outreach with APH at the Austin Vietnamese Senior Center.
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Left: Kathy engaging in additional Covid-19 outreach with UT Dell Med.
Right: AACHI's Community Health Navigators, Shutong Hao & Yumi Kang, at AISD's Back-to-School Bash.
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Austin Asian Behavioral Health Network
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Our second (ABHN) mixer for mental & behavioral health providers on September 3rd! We were so grateful to see returning folks as well as new faces in the network.
For more information about ABHN, click here. If you’re a mental or behavioral health provider interested in getting involved, join our facebook group, whatsapp chat, or fill out this survey to be included in our online multilingual directory.
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