The Asian Center's mission is to achieve a diversified, caring, just, and democratic global community by assisting individuals, families, groups, and communities to improve the conditions and meet the needs through self and collective actualization. The Center searches, develops, organizes and carries on policies, programs, and projects to accomplish the foregoing purposes, including, but not limited to: (a) the equalization of education, employment, and housing opportunities and the improvement of related conditions; (b) the enhancement of family life, cultural heritage, and the elimination of disruptive social influences; (c) the encouragement, stimulation and guidance of youth in the pursuit of excellence in life-long career development and responsible global citizenship; (d) the recruitment, establishment, and development of interracial, interfaith, interclass, and international leadership network for achieving these mentioned goals.

Description:
The Asian Center has worked with other ethnic groups through the Multi-cultural Network to use QiGong, Acupuncture, and other Asian Cultural Assets to provide various important natural health alternatives, particularly for smoking cessation, cancer, cardiovascular and stroke prevention and recovery.
We have various educational flyers for victory over smoking in different Asian languages including educational materials and holistic health alternatives to share with you. Qigong has been proven to be effective in smoking cessation and cardiovascular disease prevention and recovery.

We also offer family counseling, crisis intervention, research, employee assistance programs, and educational workshops.

History:
The Asian Center was established in 1994 in order to respond to the needs of culturally sensitive human services among the Asian Americans in West Michigan, as well as in the United States. The Asian Center is designed to be the head office while The Asian Center of West Michigan has been established as a local chapter responding to local needs. Grants have been received both from local and state agencies for it’s operation. The Asian Center is a non-profit organization with a 501c3 status.

Contact people:

Douglas Chung, Executive Director, (phone), (email) Sissi Luo, Volunteer Coordinator, (phone), (email)

Address:

1444 Michigan Street. NE Grand Rapids, MI 49504 (See a map)