Chinese Social Services - Daily Social Services and Referrals

Many recent Chinese immigrants face huge obstacles to becoming fully integrated into American society and assuming their roles as fully participating and contributing citizens. Becoming established in this new homeland requires interacting with many new, unfamiliar, and often confusing systems. While such social systems are designed to assist new arrivals, navigating them and the accompanying mass of paperwork can be difficult without assistance.

CSSC is a front-line organization providing such support and assistance; and CSSC is the only agency, working with Chinese immigrants, that fully understand their culture, and who can offer help in their own language.

CSSC can help Chinese families, including their children and seniors, with the following areas:

Applying for Supplemental Security Income(SSI);
Enrolling in Medicare, Medical Assistance, or MN Care;
Applying for and securing public housing;
Arranging for child care assistance, enrolling children in WIC, Headstart programs;
Counseling parenting skills in order to more effectively support their children in this new culture;
Help community members how to search for and obtain employment;
Addressing personal difficulties, such as problems with gambling;
How to handle the stress encountered by new arrivals, and identifying resources for psychological support and counseling;
Providing translation services when meeting with officers and applying for various programs, interacting with medical personnel, and other areas where language limitations complicate activities; and
Providing transportation in order to keep appointments with government, school, health and other offices.

For more information:

Please call (612) 529-2602 and ask for Yi Li You, Program Coordinator