lifestyle changes and integrate them into mainstream society and to provide a friendly, encouraging environment and promote positive physical and mental health. Their goals are to build a strong and supporting Chinese community in strengthening community capacity, reducing social exclusion and making civic engagements easier and more comfortable. The CCECA also helps people people sixty five and older who struggle with finance, language or communication barriers, socialization, housing and mobility. They help elders with these problems by connecting to many different people to help make changes. They connect different people to make easier access to community resources and support services that are needed to obtain basic needs. The CCECA deserve five thousand dollars because they help Chinese people with social isolation, health issues, abuse and language or communication barriers and they raise awareness about all of this.
Chinese elders are extremely vulnerable to being bullied and abused and isolated due to the fact a lot of them cannot speak English and they are older so they are weaker and slower than others and they struggle to accomplish basic routines in their daily life. Chinese Elders have trouble overcoming, adapting and fitting into society because they are older and some speak little to no English at all causing it to be harder and longer for them to learn to adapt to today's society. Social isolation last longer effect on seniors because they have no one to turn to here for help or even someone to talk to and some would even avoid contact with others, leaving them even more isolated. The CCECA helps with all of this. The CCECA provides over seventy services; normal services include social, recreation, education, health and support services that help with people experiencing completing or obtaining basic needs. Some health services offered are weekly mobile laboratory and the annual event of flu vaccination and
mammogram. The CCECA will use the five thousand grant to help pay for their bills, nursing fee for the elders, medicine and antibolics, travel expenses, counselor expenses for the elders and housing expenses. They can also use any leftover money to expand their programs and provide even more services to benefit Chinese Elders. The CECCA helps elders come out of isolation by providing services and programs that interests them and benefits all of the basic needs of elders. These programs would encourage seniors to become more active and interact with others while also making new friends and meeting new people at the same time. The CECCA values the health and happiness of elders because without elders, our parents would not exist and without our parents, we would not exist so this does heavily impact us. The Calgary Chinese Citizen Association or CCECA deserves the five thousand dollars grant because they help something that really needs help; Chinese Elders. They help elders do small and typical things, they help Chinese people with social isolation, health issues, abuse and language or communication barriers and they raise awareness about all of this.