KATIVA-NOLA Community Outreach

In addition to the scholarly contributions, KATIVA NOLA has also contributed to the Vietnamese American community in many other ways:

  • We documented and interpreted many of the challenges that the community has overcome since its establishment in 1975.
  • We provided essential pre-Katrina and post-Katrina data on the community’s health needs to support the opening of the community’s health clinic in 2008.
  • We organized, funded, and implemented a series of life history interviews of the Vietnamese community’s elderly, while training Vietnamese youth in interviewing and filming techniques in 2008.
  • We developed a mental health resource guide with Common Ground Health Clinic to produce a guide to mental health and health behavior services in the area available in Vietnamese in 2010.
  • We created a Home Health Care Book to increase health literacy in the community, introducing common health ailments - including symptoms, consequences, prevention, and treatment in 2012.
  • We prepared an up-to-date report on the health needs of the community in 2015.
  • We sent artfully designed Happy New Year cards (the 2018 card attachment below) to the participants of the study every year .