Community Needs From: Gonzaga University

As an organization, our mission is to advocate for issues that help create a more just community. Through our Health and Wellness program, we hope to bring healing to the community through various programs and events. ACL Spokane centers the power of Asians & Asian Americans to build a just, healthy, and thriving community for all, improve community health & wellness, and increase civic engagement through community building, arts, and culture.

Website: https://aclspokane.org/

Contact: Tia Moua at tmoua@aclspokane.org 

Boba Breaks is our informal college-based event where we visit campus for 1-2 hours and promote conversation around mental health with simple yet meaningful prompts and questions. 

For the 2024-2025 academic year, we will be visiting WSU campus in Spokane in their Medicine Building on the second floor Center for the people every second Wednesday around the lunch hour (11:30-1:30pm, although volunteers may need to help before and after). We will be asking that volunteers assist with set up and clean up and serving boba. Depending on the student's background, volunteer students could potentially assist with conversation and aiding participants in the prompts. This may require some conversation and informal training beforehand.

ACL Spokane centers the power of Asians and Asian Americans to build a just, healthy, and thriving community for all. We envision a world of collective liberation where Asians and Asian Americans can live in a community of wellbeing, safety, and belonging. Our programs improve community health and wellness and increase civic engagement through community building, arts, and culture.

The Social Media Intern would assist the Program Manager for Health and Wellness to create a social media strategy around mental health advocacy/education and our health and wellness programs. This could mean the planning for social media content as well as potentially assist in development of content creation. The ideal intern would have an interest in improving the social media strategy of non-profits as well as an interest in mental health and assisting in the development of an interesting and engaging social media brand.

The intern may need to assist in-person from our downtown office but can also work from home.

Boba Breaks is our informal college-based event where we visit campus for 1-2 hours and promote conversation around mental health with simple yet meaningful prompts and questions. 

For the 2024-2025 academic year, we will be visiting Gonzaga campus in the Hemmingson Center every second Tuesday around the lunch hour (12-1:30pm, although volunteers may need to help before and after). We will be asking that volunteers assist with set up and clean up and serving boba. Depending on the student's background, volunteer students could potentially assist with conversation and aiding participants in the prompts. This may require some conversation and informal training beforehand. 

"Boba" Buddies is our Youth Program where Asian/Asian American students K-12 can join us for programming once a month.  The Boba Buddies program is run under our Health and Wellness program in an effort to build protective factors for young Asian and Asian American kids as part of our mental health programs. These protective factors include community and cultural identity building. We hope that Asian/Asian American kids will develop these protective factors so that they are less likely to have mental health issues as they get older. The program will include directed activities and games and a communal space for Asian/Asian American kids and their parents to hang out. We will provide after school snacks and some months will have special guests!

Volunteers will be asked to assist with crafts, set up/clean up, dispensing of boba and monitoring snacks. We tend to bring in families with young children and so assisting with little kids is very likely.