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Our Growth and Motivation

It’s Time To Grow! Support Us Today! Donate Now! The need for community-based, culturally humble, Punjabi-specific resources and interventions for our community far exceeds what any current Sikh organization can meet. SFC needs to build capacity to provide these necessary services. We are fundraising to hire an Executive Director (ED) who can take further

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Mental Health

Mental Health and Critical Conversations Help can be closer than we think. And we all need some from time to time. Yet, there may be barriers that feel insurmountable. SFC works to bring critical conversations and resources to the community.  “You know, we say ਮੇਰੀਆਂ ਲੱਤਾਂ ਦਰਦ ਹੋ ਰਹੀਆਂ ਹਨ ਜਾਂ

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Red Cards

Get Your Red Card: I do not wish to speak with you, answer your questions, or sign or hand you any documents based on my 5th Amendment rights under the United States Constitution.

I do not give you permission to enter my home based on my 4th Amendment rights under the United States Constitution unless you have a warrant to enter, signed by a judge or magistrate with my name on it that you slide under the door. I do not give you permission to search any of my belongings based on my 4th Amendment rights.

I choose to exercise my constitutional rights.

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How To Use Your Red Card Illustrated

Download pdf: How to Use Your Red Card illustrated (English & Punjabi) and see the illustration and the video below. To get your red cards or the Illustration Guide in the mail send an email to: sikhfamilycenter@gmail.comਆਪਣੇ ਲਾਲ ਕਾਰਡ ਪ੍ਰਾਪਤ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ, ਈ–ਮੇਲਕ ਰਸਕਦੇ ਹੋ: sikhfamilycenter@gmail.com How to use your

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Report Release

FOCUS GROUPS AND STORY TELLING Our ongoing community education campaigns seek to demystify and destigmatize all issues: only through healthy conversations can build healthy communities and families. SFC concluded a year-long Survivor-Centered Advocacy Project, in partnership with the Asian Pacific Islander Institute on Gender-Based Violence (API-GBV). Participants of focus groups and storytelling interviews

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Focus Groups and Story Telling

Our ongoing community education campaigns seek to demystify and destigmatize all issues: only through healthy conversations can build healthy communities and families. SFC concluded a year-long Survivor-Centered Advocacy Project, in partnership with the Asian Pacific Islander Institute on Gender-Based Violence (API-GBV). Participants of focus groups and storytelling interviews included survivors of gender-based violence,

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Community-Led Needs Assessment

In order to build true grassroots power, we have always prioritized hearing directly from the grassroots. Sikh Family Center continues to conduct regular assessments and listening exercises with the Sikh community in the U.S., in order to:  Hear community priorities  Collect reliable data and statistics  Raise awareness & community engagement

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Health and Wellness for all – A Mega Family Event

Health and Wellness for All12TH September 2015 10.30AM-1PMSikh Temple 3636 Murillo Avenue San Jose CA n 2009, Sikh Family Center launched with local health clinics, particularly for the uninsured, as well as under-insured, and began witnessing the needs of the community and the desire for better, community-specific health interventions. Thank you to the Sikh

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Creation of the Sikh Family Center ~ Position Paper

Creation of the Sikh Family Center This paper1 is designed to provide insight to the culture-change work being undertaken by Sikh Family Center (SFC), an initiative to provide social services through an evidence-based and empowerment-oriented approach. The development of SFC since 2009, illustrates the propagation of a culture that neither apologizes

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