CPAD

September 12, 2008

Dear Parents and friends:

Chinese Parents Association for the Disabled (CPAD) is a non-profit organization founded in 1990 by families dedicated to help individuals with developmental disabilities and their families by providing resources, guidance, assistance, and a sense of community. CPAD’s Saturday Programs which include music therapy, dancing, drawing and parent training are currently taking place in Alhambra, Los Angeles. CPAD members would like to extend its programs and services to parents who reside in Orange County. With the support of Orange County ARC (OCARC), CPAD is able to use their facility to start a parent support group, to provide support, information and most importantly sharing valuable experience among parents.

You are cordially invited to join us in the coming grass roots meeting on October 25, 2008 at OCARC. Please come to know about CPAD, in the meantime please bring in your interest, ideas, input and etc… to share.

TIME: Saturday, October 25, 2008, 2:00 P.M.

PLACE : Orange County ARC (OCARC )
225 Carl Karcher Way
Anaheim, Ca. 92801
Light refreshments will be served

R.S.V.P. and questions please contact Mimi Chou at (714) 267-6009, or call CPAD hot line at (626)-307-3837.

We are looking forward to meeting you on October 25, 2008!

Sincerely yours,
Rachel Chen
President

To view all the information in this issue, please open the following PDF file: CPAD in Orange County

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Parent Training

Health Care Services

Time: September 20, 2008, Saturday 1 - 3:00 pm
Location: Community Health Education Center (CHEC)
261 Junipero Serra, San Gabriel, CA 91776

On 9/20/2008 (Saturday) 1 pm to 3 pm, Mrs. Shan-Ru Huang, CPAD’s board member is our special guest speaker, she will explain the important of “Health Care Services”, how the services affecting our families. Her topics will include:

- Medicare, Medi-Cal and SSI (Supplemental Security Income)
How are they related to each others?
- Eligibility for Medicare (Part A, Part B, and Part D.)
- Benefits and Eligibility for Medi-Cal

We encourage our parents take this great opportunity to learn about what health care services are covered? How to apply…? Come to learn and plan for our children’s future.

To view all the information in this issue, please open the following PDF file: CPAD Newsletter (August 2008)

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C & C Property Investment Company $200
Chih Wei Wan $40

Thank so much to the above donors! CPAD is a non-profit, volunteer organization which depends solely on public donations to finance its ongoing activities. A donation of any amount is always appreciated and your contribution is fully tax deductible Please send check made payable to “CPAD”, and/or to Chinese Parents Association for the Disabled; mailing address: P.O. Box 2884, San Gabriel, CA 91778. Another way to support CPAD is buying the 99 Tawa Supermarket gift certificate, CPAD will have 6% refund. Please contact Mrs. Lee at (626) 287-1495 for details. Thank you.

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This Summer CPAD starts out a very busy schedule.
First “Be Your Own Leader” trainings. 15 transition
age youth (TAY) and 20 parents participated. Dr.
Rosenberg and Ms. Teri Chang are excellent
trainers. Followings are some comments from the
evaluations from trainings:

“I like the person-centered and social security training
the best”
“Very informative and comforting to find other parents
to share information”
“All sessions are good, especially “Person
Center”. Parents need to let go and think in their kids’
view”
“It’s a very interesting and useful training”…….

To view all the information in this issue, please open the following PDF file: CPAD Corner (August 2008)

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1. Monthly support group meetings on the 4th Tuesday of each month from 10 am to 12 noon. Next meetings are 9/23 and 10/28/2008. No meetings for November and December due to the holidays.

2. Saturday, October 18th, 2 – 4 pm, there will be a workshop led by Matt Pope from Office of Clients’ Rights Advocacy. The topic will be “How to Have Effective IPPs for Your Child”.

To view all the information in this issue, please open the following PDF file: CPAD Information (August 2008)

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