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Our Journey

SPRING 2009

Washington High School

CIS was founded in 2009 in George Washington High School; by a few high school students who tried to help out the community through volunteering.

FALL 2015

Balboa High School

Six years after we established, CIS had a bigger team compared to when we started. We decided to move a step forward and built a CIS team in Balboa High School.

SUMMER 2019

Official Non-Profit Organization

After serving the community for 10 years, we finally registered to be an official non-profit organization with support from our team members and community partners.

SPRING 2021

Lowell High School

Six years after Balboa High School CIS was established, CIS became a large non-profit organization. We decided to move one step further and expand to Lowell High School.

FUTURE

Our vision is to make our diverse community a healthier, cleaner and better place. By doing that we hope to serve more new immigrant and low-incoming families, and bring more awareness to their physical and mental health wellness. To target different groups within low income families, we have broken down some areas to focus on for each age group.

For children and teenagers of school age, we aim to provide academic advices by inviting CIS alumni to host college and career workshops.
For working adults, we plan to visit low income housing families to get more familiar of some obstacles they face. To serve more new immigrant families, we hope to obtain their consent to help them translate letters and bills they receive from agencies. We also plan to relieve their social burdens by establishing social media groups to communicate with each other’s and share local job opportunities.
For the elderly, we aim to provide comprehensive care by hosting nutrition and exercise workshops routinely. We will remind them for a regular check ups and help those elderly who are physically inconvenienced to schedule rides to clinics and hospitals. We are also planning on hosting hypertension and diabetes management program at their sites or local senior buildings.

Club Culture

Members and cultures

As a multicultural club, we have over 100 members from different ethnic groups, with immigrant members as a majority between 15 to 20 years old, including high school and college students.

Our Experience

What we have done so far

We have volunteer experience at a variety of events such as Naturalization Workshop, Chinese New Year Street Fair, Chinatown Community Resources Fair, etc. In addition, We also have self-organized programs such as holiday-themed parties which are designed to serve the elderly living in senior homes. We, as youth, deeply feel that it is part of our duty to help people out in our community and assist each other.

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