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What the community needs! Diaryo Alberta
On Jan 25, 2020 eighty (80) participants attended a day long forum and workshop, “Building Strong and Resilient Families in the Filipino Community”. The event sponsored by the Calgary Catholic Immigrant Services (CCIS) and Filipino Working Group on Healthy Family Relationships, the first of its kind in Alberta, was held at the Kerby Centre in downtown Calgary. The diversity of the crowd created interesting discussions and interactions. Participants composed of Filipino lawyers, immigration consultant, clergies, men in uniform, community leaders, academe, social workers, government representative, non-Filipino (other ethnic) leaders/observers and one rep from Diaryo Alberta. The energy, power and
synergy of the group tackled the following findings: Filipinos rank highest among the different cultural communities with reported cases of involvement with Children’s Services. Child protection concerns are physical abuse (46%), emotional injury (44%), neglect (7%) and sexual abuse (3%.). Filipino family issues related to child abuse are domestic violence (41%), inappropriate discipline (22%), parent’s mental health (14%), child’s mental health (11%), and meth/substance addiction (12%). For those who got involved in domestic violence, 50% have sponsorship while the other 50% do not have sponsorship. No. of Filipino fathers who attended the mandatory court Counselling program: 2016 – 15 dads; 2017 38 dads; 2018 – 31 dads; 2019 – 61 dads (data From Immigrant Services Calgary Men’s Counselling Program). The picture
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Writers/Contributors Michelle Jeong Sharina Dumaran Benjamin Tamayo Manuel Perez Madame KC Marianne Malaca Tata Gascon Pastor Jose Belasco
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above is just the tip of the iceberg. The following objectives were formulated to address the above concerns. 1. To build awareness and education on children and family welfare. 2) To create actions on the issues related to children abuse and family violence in the Filipino community; and 3) To build a community of people who are ready to act on the identified
issues. After two workshops led by seasoned facilitators participants drafted lists of doable plans. For copy of the report / plans, and those who desire to lend a hand contact Edwin Chavez | Community Broker, Cultural Brokerage Program. CCIS at 403.817.6480 | www. ccisab.ca Now, what? This kind of initiative is what the community needs. Start
and spread the conversation about the issue (and others like mental health, abuse, racism, etc). Many groups, clubs and organizations delved more on magnifying their goodness, success, look/beauty, accomplishments and vanity. One downside is the gap it creates between the common people and the ones trying to be in the upper class. It spawns social stratification that leads to more social issues.
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