Sunday, May 29 at 2:30pm

Co-hosted by WizChinese/PACPC and sponsored by the Vincent V.C. Woo Memorial Foundation, the second session of the Mental Health Lecture Series “Social Anxiety Disorder” will be held on 5/29/22 at 2:30 pm. The speakers are Catherine Shir, MD, and Rona Hu, MD., Stanford’s Department of Psychiatry. There will be a face-to-face discussion with doctors from 2:30-3:30 pm on 6/12, with a quota of 6-8 people. The registration link will be issued in the Q&A session of the lecture.

Topic: Social Anxiety Disorder
Time: May 29，2022 02:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81130368025?pwd=QWxuRFIzc0RUQ256eEdTbWpKSzd6dz09

Meeting ID: 811 3036 8025
Passcode: 738506

Sunday, April 24 at 2:30pm

Funded by Vincent V.C Memorial Foundation, WizChinese/PACPC has invited Dr. Rona Hu, a Medical Director at Stanford Hospital and her team to give a talk in Chinese on “Stress & Emotion Management “ on April 24th at 2:30pm via zoom. A series of free small group discussion with Dr.Hu and her team about mental health will be offered biweekly. Please register using the Link https://forms.gle/a1sY5GY4Fow4hfkz5.

Celebrate the Year of the Tiger and Support Asian Health Research Education!

Happy Year of the Tiger! The Omicron surge unfortunately prevents us from bringing back the popular Palo Alto Chinese New Year Fair this year. Therefore, WizChinese (wizchinese.org) is reinventing this year’s Chinese New Year celebration by fundraising for Stanford Center for Asian Health Research and Education (https://med.stanford.edu/care.html). The Asian community in Santa Clara makes up more than one third of the total population, yet very little attention has been paid to Asian health research. As a thank you gift to participants of the fundraising, WizChinese will be giving away some very tasty Chinese New Year treats:

Donors of >$100 will each receive a box of exquisite Yunnan style dim sum valued at $29;
Donors of $50 to $99 will each receive a bottle of delicious sauce valued at $12;
Donors of >$20 will be entered into a raffle. Each winner will get a Stanford CARE Mug or the gift certificate ($10) of Dumpling City.

100% of your donation will go to the Stanford Center for Asian American Health Research and Education (Stanford CARE). To make your donation, please PayPal wizchinese@gmail.com. If you would like a tax-deductable letter, please include your address in the note section during your PayPal transaction. We will contact you via email on how to receive your gift.

This campaign ends on Feb. 20, 2022.

Thank You and Have A Prosperous 2022!

Red Envelope Give Away at the Trees of Gratitude

As a part of Celebration of the Year of the Tiger, WizChinese also sponsored the Lunar New Year decoration of the Trees of Gratitude at Lowell/Bryant intersection and Red Envelope Give Away event on Feb. 5 at 2pm. Thanks to parent leaders Min Zhu and Jing Wu and student volunteers Jeffrey Kang, April Lei, Amy Lei, Madeline Cheung, Bryan Xiao and Jonathan Wang for creating this event! Close to 300 Red Envelopes have been distributed to community members spreading the joy of the Lunar New Year celebration in the community.

Check out Palo Alto Weekly’s report: “Nonprofit welcomes Year of the Tiger with red envelope distribution, fundraiser” https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2022/01/27/nonprofit-welcomes-year-of-the-tiger-with-red-envelope-distribution-fundraiser “

WizChinese

Serving Palo Alto Chinese Community

WizChinese is an organization serving Chinese families who live in Palo Alto. Our mission is to facilitate the integration of Chinese immigrants with local communities through organizing community building events, partnering with local non-profit organizations, and sharing information and experiences.

Palo Alto Chinese Parents’ Club (PACPC), operating under WizChinese since 2014, provides a platform for the Chinese parents to form strong connections through its social and educational events, school involvement, and resource sharing.

Through its flagship program of the annual Palo Alto Chinese New Year Fair, first inaugurated in 2016, WizChinese promotes cultural exchange and friendship among residents of different backgrounds and contributes to the vibrancy and health of our diverse community.

WizChinese is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and was founded in February 2014 by Palo Alto residents Debra Cen and Amy Yang. Since its inception, WizChinese has been an active contributor and partner in the community.

You can communicate with WizChinese with the email address, wizchineseinfo@gmail.com.

Fighting Against Coronavirus

To fight the Coronavirus pandemic, WizChinese started a fundraising campaign in February initially for supporting Wuhan doctors and nurses. With the fast recovery of Wuhan from the pandemic and the urgent need of masks in our community, WizChinese repurposed the fund to purchase masks from China to donate to our community. In addition, WizChinese also encouraged the Chinese community to donate masks directly to their neighbors or through WizChinese for distributing to our community.

We have raised $5800, and spent $3800 to purchase 6000 surgical masks and donated $2000 in check to PTAC’s COVID-19 Relief Fund. We also received 11900 surgical masks and 820 KN95. That generates a total of 18,720 masks for donation.
So far, WizChinese has distributed the masks to the following organizations or public health facilities:
Ravenwood Family Health Center in East Palo Alto,
Palo Alto Medical Foundation,
PTAC,
Palo Alto University Rotary Club,
EPA Police Department,
LifeMoves,
Sequoias Living Senior Center
Mark Zuckerberg Hospital
Avenidas

If you like to know more about the campaign, click here.