Happy 50 Plus
The one-stop resource hub that helps 50-plus Chinese/AAPI Americans navigate the way to aging happily and successfully.
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Happy 50 Plus Foundation is honored to announce our presentation at the 2023 On Aging Conference in Atlanta
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CEO and Co-Founder of Happy 50 Plus, Amanda Lee, led a 60-minute session on “Supporting Older AAPI/Chinese Americans to Achieve Social, Information and Health Equity”, moderated by AARP’s Senior Advisor, Susan Wang.
The ASA On Aging 2023 is themed “Advancing Health and Well-Being”, and held from March 27-31, 2023.
On Aging is the nation’s largest aging conference. Each year, thousands of experts and professionals from multidisciplinary aging fields attend the conference to learn about the latest trend related to older Americans and their families in innovation, social impact, economic security, housing, livable communities, justice, equity and all-important topics.
Although an integrated part of the American society, older Chinese Americans have always been considered a “hard to engage” population. It is largely due to language, cultural, or structural barriers, resulting in inequity to access information, resources, or aging care. Consequently, many monolingual or limited-English proficient older Chinese Americans who experience less social network support suffer from social isolation, mental health issues, or poorer physical health.
“We are grateful that Happy 50 Plus has grown to a 10,000+ AAPI/Chinese-American community in four years. We are excited that our organization and community members will be highlighted in this important aging conference,” Lee said. “We would like to invite any of you who may attend the conference to join this session and hear what we will share. We would also love to hear from you about your efforts and challenges in engaging the older AAPI/Chinese Americans in your communities”.
Ms. Amanda Lee shared effective strategies to reach and engage older Chinese/AAPI Americans. Specifically, how a community-based organization uses innovative and cost-effective methods to reach and engage older Chinese Americans. Ms. Lee also shared powerful culturally and language-appropriate tools, and how cross-sector engagement methods can help achieve the social determinants of health and equity for older AAPI/Chinese Americans.
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About Happy 50 Plus
Happy 50 Plus was founded in 2018 as a social-mission community organization that serves the underserved 50+ Chinese Americans /AAPIs with language barriers and limited accesses to valuable information for healthy aging, and has dedicated to providing timely and reliable resources and information from government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, nonprofit organizations, academia, philanthropists, and community development investors that wish to reach the 50+ Chinese Americans/AAPIs in the United States.
The mission of Happy 50 Plus is to be a one-stop reliable resource hub to help 50+ Chinese Americans/AAPIs and keep them connected to avoid social isolation. Most of the programs and materials we share are in-language and culturally relevant.
To date, we have registered 10,000+ AAPI older adults as members, and reached 150,000+ attendees/audience through community-based, life-enhancing educational virtual and in-person workshops, interviews and fun events.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Happy 50 Plus successfully pivoted our members and followers who are over 50 years old from in-person reach out to virtual and digital platforms. We educated and helped the older adults to learn how to keep connected through Zoom, YouTube, FB, IG, Twitter, WeChat, website and e-newsletters via emails. We successfully built a supportive and empathetic community for AAPI older adults.
Closing “digital divide” for AAPI older adults is an important mission carried by Happy 50 Plus.
90% of Happy50Plus members are California residents and 85% out of them are from Southern California, including LA County, Orange County, San Bernardino County, Riverside County and San Diego.
-We have the ecosystem knowledge—we know the languages, the communities, the culture and the target demographic;
-We are the thought leader organization working specifically in the aging Chinese American/ AAPIs landscape in the U.S.;
-We can effectively reach and engage the 50+ AAPI older adults through both virtual and in-person (when available) events, workshops, social media (WeChat, Line, IG, FB, Twitter), eNewsletters, and community partners with culturally-relevant messages;
-We successfully built a nationwide community for 50+ Chinese Americans/AAPIs older adults, whether they are acculturated, bilingual, monolingual or socially isolated.
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Happy 50 Plus Foundation has been approved by the Internal Revenue Services(IRS) as 501(c)(3) public charity non-profit organization. Your donation to the Foundation will be tax deductible. Our EIN # is 92-0367082.
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