Organizations Filed Purposes:
Helping Link's mission is to empower Vietnamese-Americans through social adjustment, family stability, and self-sufficiency while nurturing community service and youth leaders. We provide our clients with information and referral services so that everyone might have fair and proper access to the city's resources. We build cultural competence and community through our ESL, citizenship, and digital literacy courses that help our clients acclimate to their new lives in Seattle.
To empower Vietnamese-American's social adjustment, family stability, and self-sufficiency while nurturing community service and youth leaders through ESL/Citizenship classes, digital literacy programs, and information and referral services.
ESL and Citizenship Programs: Our ESL program is offered year-round in 10-week increments. Twice a week, native English speaking and bilingual instructors gather with our clients to teach conversational English in context-focused classes. Classes emphasize social interaction and language skills for specific situations in a safe learning environment. Clients practice language useful for job-seeking and managing other life tasks. This runs hand-in-hand with our citizenship and naturalization classes which focus on American history, government, and social studies.
Technology and Digital Literacy Program: Focused primarily on computers and iPad use, this course meets twice a week to instruct clients on basic technology use in order to help clients develop skills needed for employment opportunities. The course also teaches clients to use technology and social media to maintain communication, navigate around the city, and stay connected with their community. Our clients are given new means to assimilate to their new home. This, along with the relationships forged amongst clients and volunteers, helps build confidence and prevent the isolation common to immigrant communities.
Information and Referral Services: About one third of our Executive Director's time is spent providing assistance to families and individuals regarding accessing services and navigating challenges in areas such as education, health, employment, and immigration. We have a firm working relationship with other agencies who specialize in these services through a culturally competent lens reflective of our community's needs. Through this work, our clients are able to partake in their rights and build their lives in order to contribute to the well-being of their families and this city.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Minh-Duc Nguyen | Executive Director | 40 | $136,420 |
| Christina Davidson | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Kim Phi Nguyen | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Arthur John Block | Secretary | 2 | $0 |
| Jen Koo | Treasurer | 2 | $0 |
| Miesha Vaughn | President | 2 | $0 |
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