Arab Cultural Center

The organization offers three major programs: wellness, youth, and cultural. Program achievements include satisfying or exceeding funder requirements for outcomes and outputs, numbers of clients served, offering culturally and linguistically relevant services in all of our program areas. In the organization's wellness program it served over 100 unduplicated women in or at risk of violence, responded to over 400 crisis calls, spent over 2,000 hours advocating for Arab and Muslim individuals in need of case management, presented 50 cultural competency trainings to service providers, and trained an additional 80 community members. The youth program tutored 45 unduplicated students four days a week afterschool in addition to assisting 30 high school students with facilitating Arab culture clubs at their high schools. Youth were also offered additional group activities on a monthly basis such as family day at the beach, a day trip to Google headquarters, and multiple field trips.The cultural program included the publication of a Racial Equity toolkit for educators. The toolkit meets California Common Core standards and is a compilation of lesson plans, teaching guides, and resources for educators to integrate into their current curriculum. Subjects include Restorative Justice for Arab and Muslim Students, The Arab Uprisings, Contemporary Arab Art and Culture, Addressing Racially Motivated Bullying and Discrimination, and many more relevant topics.