April 21-27th 2013 is National Crime Victims’ Rights week. We’ll be honoring all victims of crime during a town hall meeting on Saturday, April 20th from 1-3pm at the South Broadway Cultural Center sponsored in part by Enlace Comunitario and the City of Albuquerque. NMAFC Board of Directors members will be hosting three free trainings to the community for the months of February and March. The first training will cover relaxation skills and will be held on February 28th from 10:30-noon. Skills covered will include breathing, guided imagery, and others. On March 14th, an introductory to Brain Gym will be presented from 1-2pm and will cover easy and smart movements that integrate the whole brain and body led by Ms. Kei Takagi. Finally, on March 28th, a training on SCLO from 10:30-noon will be held by Senior Citizens’ Law Office who will present on legal services for seniors. Please RSVP to trainings by email (kyokoabq@yahoo.com) or via phone (505-553-0388). For more information, please see AFC Asian Community Open House Feb to March. Are you interested in having your children get together with others of the same background to engage in a cultural activity? Manzano Mesa Elementary School will host story time in Vietnamese. Books will be read in Vietnamese every Friday from 11:45-12:15pm to children from ages 0-5. For more details, please see the story time flyer.English and story time flyer.Vietnamese! NMAFC offers free legal consultations every first Thursday of the month on Family Law and Domestic Relations. Consultations are by appointment only – please indicate whether or not you will be needing an interpreter. Consultations are held by Jennifer Rodriguez Rodgers, Esq. Jennifer graduated cum laude from law school at the University of NM in 2009. She worked for Walther Family Law as an associate before opening her own firm, R&R Family Law in March 2012. Jennifer practices family law exclusively and has dedicated her practice to assisting low and middle income clients receive affordable legal representation. For more information, please see our legal flyer. The Vietnamese American Association of NM would like to issue out an open invitation to the community! They will be holding their Tet (New Year) 2013 celebration at the Holy Ghost Church on 833 Arizona St NE on January 26th. The festival activities, including food and music, will be held from 2-5:30pm with the traditional ceremony for Tet following from 7pm until closing. For a two dollar ticket, you can also be entered into a competition for a number of exciting prizes! To learn more, please see the Invitation to the Vietnamese Tet 2013 . The 2013 Outstanding Asian American Youth Award application is out! Organized by Asian American Association of New Mexico and supported by Federal Asian Pacific American Council – NM Chapter and NM Asian Family Center, this award goes to recognize a deserving Asian American youth who has demonstrated one or more accomplishments within their school and local community and is open to all NM Asian American youth in grades 9 – 12. For more details and for the application form, please see the following document: Outstanding Asian American Youth Award NMAFC Board of Directors members will be hosting two free trainings to the community this January. The first lecture will cover Medicare on Thursday, January 10th from 10:30am-noon. The second lecture will cover AARP and how it benefits the elderly community (50+ years). This lecture will take place on Thursday, January 24th from 10:30am-noon. Please RSVP to trainings by email (kyokoabq@yahoo.com) or via phone (505-553-0388). For more information, please see AFC January 2013 Trainings. NMAFC will be hosting a call-in action to Governor Martinez tomorrow, Wednesday, November 21st throughout the day and we need your help! We’ve committed to having at least ten people from our community calling in to tell Gov. Martinez to say “Yes” to support Medicaid, but we’d love to have your support and have as many people as possible join us. You can help by calling in when you’re walking to classes, taking a break at work, hanging out at home, or whenever else you have 30 seconds to spare. Will the Governor refuse the best opportunity we have to get healthcare coverage for 200,000 uninsured New Mexicans? Starting in 2014, Medicaid can be provided to every low-income adult under 138% of the poverty level, including low wage workers and people who recently lost their jobs. But Governor Martinez is undecided about whether to take this opportunity even though it would cost New Mexico nothing and would create jobs and bring economic security to NM. Please call the Governor and ask her to seize the Medicaid opportunity and get coverage for every New Mexican! For more information, please see the flyer from NM Center on Law and Poverty. Making the Call And thank YOU for joining us in improving health for all New Mexicans! ——– Medicare Open Enrollment is October 15 – December 7. Below are Medicare open enrollment information sheets in English, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, and Tagalog. Open Enrollment is the one time of year when ALL people with Medicare can see what new benefits Medicare has to offer and make changes to their coverage. People with Medicare can: • Visit www.medicare.gov/find-a-plan to compare their current coverage with all of the options that are available in their area, and enroll in a new plan if they decide to make a change Medicare Open Enrollment_English If any of your loved ones have been affected by Hurricane Sandy and need help after the disaster, but are unsure of how to access resources because of limited English proficiency, FEMA has published a guide available in different Asian languages. Please select the most appropriate link for you and share wide and far with your friends, neighbors, and families: English: PDF Chinese: (PDF 770KB, TXT 51KB) Japanese: (PDF 563KB, TXT 42KB) Laotian: (PDF 823KB, TXT 196KB) Tagalog: (PDF 717KB, TXT 109KB) Vietnamese: (PDF 1MB, TXT 148KB) Election day is less than a week away! Do you know President Obama’s and Governor Mitt Romney’s stances on health care? The Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum has just released a fact sheet comparing the health platforms of both candidates. Whoever is elected will enact or retract policies that will have a direct impact on Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Native Hawaiian health. Check out the facts and learn more before you cast your ballot. To view the fact sheet, please go here. ——– For Immediate Release: ALBUQUERQUE, NM. – The New Mexico Asian Family Center (NMAFC) has begun a planning project to learn from Asian parents with young children about the needs occurring within their communities, specifically regarding their understanding of the education system to increase parent engagement for the benefit of children, families, and communities. Additionally, a curriculum will be developed on relevant and useful information to guide a series of future hands-on workshops for the community. The project is funded by a $74,901 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Mich. To find out more about this exciting project, please refer to our news release. ——– The U.S. government has launched a new immigration program allowing young immigrant workers to get work permits and avoid deportation. What does that mean to you? All that information is here! Unfortunately, there is a very disturbing trend among immigrant children and their undocumented parents! What could this be? “There’s a stunning trend happening within the immigrant community around the country and in New Mexico. Many undocumented parents are fearful not just of immigration officials, but of their own children. Find what this trend is here! ——– Are you curious about whether the formerly known ‘war zone’ (now known as the International District) is still living up to its name? Find out here! “However, in three years, while a few things have changed, much remains the same, according to Albuquerque police statistics.” ——– Got a question on how the healthcare reform will affect you, especially if you are a young adult? Check out this article from the Associated Press. Here’s a teaser: “Right now, Medicaid mostly covers children and low-income adults who are disabled, pregnant or raising kids. But the health care law will push states to expand Medicaid to also cover other adults with incomes up to around $15,000, adjusted for inflation in 2014. That’s designed to account for about half of the 30 million people expected to gain insurance coverage under the overhaul.” —— Driver’s licenses, immigration, and what you need to know brought to you by the Albuquerque Journal. “New Mexico will soon begin using new technology to verify documents presented by driver’s license-seekers as Gov. Susana Martinez’s administration tries new ways to crack down on fraud.”
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• Call 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227) 24-hours a day/7 days a week to find out more about their coverage options. TTY users should call 1-877-486-2048.
• Review the Medicare & You 2013 handbook. It is mailed to people with Medicare in September.
• If they have limited income and resources, they may be able to get Extra Help paying their prescription drug coverage costs. For more information, visit www.socialsecurity.gov/i1020 or call Social Security at 1-800-772-1213. TTY users should call 1-800-325-0778.
• Get one-on-one help from your State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP). Visit www.medicare.gov/contacts or call 1-800-MEDICARE to get the phone number.
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