Asian Community Development Council

Project Overview

Asian Community Development Council (ACDC) was created in response to a gap in culturally appropriate resources available to the growing minority communities. The mission of ACDC is to improve the general wellbeing and education of the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities, as well as other ethnic communities in Nevada. The proposed Community Recovery Navigator and Food Security Program aims to sustain ACDC’s newly founded Food Distribution Program that was created in the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Food Distribution Program has served more than 5,800 AANHPI families with culturally familiar food items. The current program has Asian language capacity to assist and uplift households with limited English proficiency in the AANHPI community by developing multilingual and/or culturally fluent Community Recovery Navigators for AANHPI communities for food distribution outreach, intake, and scheduling, and to strengthen access to recovery programs and services including Healthcare & SNAP programs in response to COVID-19 pandemic.