VCH - Vietnamese Community Health at UCLA

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VCH - Vietnamese Community Health at UCLA

We are a student organization at UCLA working to improve the health needs of at-risk, low-income communities in Southern California.

In Fall 2006, Vietnamese Community Health (VCH) was initiated by five UCLA students to assess the health problems of the Vietnamese-American community that had not been addressed by any other organization on campus. Through extensive research and personal interviews with health care providers throughout Orange County, VCH discerned several health problems in the Vietnamese community in the Garden Grove and Westminster areas, including high cholesterol, diabetes, hypertension, hepatitis B, and cervical cancer; we found that an underlying cause of these issues is the lack of culturally sensitive health information and programs. VCH aspires to improve community health in the Vietnamese-American community through education, free services, and screenings throughout the Vietnamese community in Southern California. Equipped with a brand new staff for 2021-2022, VCH is excited to continue our traditions and expand our services. Just as the diversity in Orange County is growing, so are the health disparities within surrounding communities. This year, we aim to go beyond the Garden Grove and Westminster areas and provide our services in Santa Ana as well.

04/16/2026

This past weekend, we had our first health sites of the spring quarter at Asian Garden Mall and Anaheim Indoor Marketplace! Thank you to all our patients and volunteers who gave their time to make our site both engaging and successful!! 🫶

04/13/2026

Need to buy a polo, practice our health services, or just need someone to talk to? This week, we are starting our community chats! Come over to Kerckhoff 408, or find us on our Discord! Can’t wait to see you all soon! 😇💙

03/30/2026

Hope everyone had a fun and restful spring break! Pull up to our first GM of spring quarter on Wednesday, April 1st, from 6-7 PM at Haines Hall A18! Come to meet our new leadership team, learn more about our committees, and get a quick health site rundown! We have lots of exciting things planned for this quarter, so we hope to see you there!

(Note that the time and location have changed from last quarter!)

03/26/2026

As our Winter 2026 quarter comes to an end, we wanted to reflect on our success of the quarter, particularly at our Health Sites and Health Fair! We served 157 patients at our health sites and 197 patients at our health fair, providing glucose, cholesterol, vision, and many more screenings.

Thank you to all our volunteers, patients, and supporters who helped make our mission possible--we couldn't have done it without you, and we hope you enjoyed your time with us as much as we did. Here's to making more memories in Spring quarter!

03/19/2026

Congratulations to our Volunteer of the Quarter, Ylan Liu, for all her hard work and effort in all the different components of VCH this past quarter. Swipe to hear what she has to say about her time in VCH so far!

03/16/2026

We wanted to shout out our Winter 2026 VCH Internship class for all their hard work this past quarter in learning more about VCH operations and planning GMs and fundraisers. But that's not all--take a trip down memory lane to see all the fun things our interns did together! 📷🫶

03/15/2026

Read all about what our Patient Outreach Committee did this past quarter from our committee heads, Vy Vy Tran and Minh Vo!

"Patient Outreach strives to develop meaningful and long-lasting relationships within all communities that we serves. This quarter we were able to reach over 500 patients with our healthcare and lifestyle newsletter, 375 patients with our mailing system, and over 657 patients with our patient contacting project, keeping them informed of VCH’s upcoming events! We are truly grateful and proud of our PO community, and cannot wait to accomplish even more in future quarters!!!"

Swipe to hear from PO's member spotlight, Nathan Tram, and to learn more about their special site at Midway City Community Center!

03/14/2026

Read all about what our Patient Education and Wellness Committee did this past quarter from our committee heads, Jasmine Nguyen and Jordan Tran!

"This quarter, PEW organized a creative project that allowed members to explore different healthcare providers’ perspectives on their careers and approaches to patient care. Additionally, we strengthened connections with our members while promoting new ideas and fostering a supportive and engaging community."

Swipe to hear from PEW's member spotlight, Ylan Liu, and to learn more about their special site at Black History Month x Brain Power Health Fair!

03/13/2026

Read all about what our Nutrition Committee did this past quarter from our committee head, Kaylyn Ngo!

"This quarter, the Nutrition Nuts created PSAs on fiber and communal eating to address the rising prevalence of colon cancer and the nutritional deficiencies associated with eating alone. They also explored nutrition on the Hill, where they concluded that UCLA’s Feast dining hall is both nutritious and delicious."

Swipe to hear from Nutrition's member spotlight, Ngoc Nguyen, and to learn more about their special site at Black History Month x Brain Power Health Fair!

03/12/2026

Read all about what our Navigators did this past quarter from our committee heads, Nhi Pham and Andrew Nguyen!

"Once again, Navigators have helped run a successful Health Fair by guiding patients through the venue, checking in our providers, assisting patients with parking, and collecting feedback from patients! This quarter, we also assembled the Health Fair layout, created posters for stations, wrote thank you cards for providers, created more language buttons, and put together registration packets for our patients. Additionally, Navigators had a chance to learn more about Health Fair through our HF Pictionary and HF Scavenger Hunt!"

Swipe to hear from Navigators' member spotlight, Johan Ha!

03/11/2026

Read all about what our Language Learning Committee did this past quarter from our committee heads, Anson Pham and Natalie Bui!

"This quarter L² moved onto our "intermediate" portion of our curriculum where we focused on more health site/health fair oriented lessons. We focused our lessons on Viet that members could actually use at both sites and HF as well as overall more healthcare oriented terminology and usage. Our final project focused on making cheat sheets that members could use at Health Fair and since Tết was this quarter, we also had a very fun Tết lesson which incorporated the cultural aspect of L²!"

Swipe to hear from L²'s member spotlight, Tan Nguyen!

03/10/2026

Read all about what our Language Development Committee did this past quarter from our committee head, Mindy Nguyen!

"This busy quarter, LD had our Stations in Vietnamese and Health Site in Spanish workshops to help our members feel more comfortable interacting with all patients during site and at Health Fair. In addition to reviewing and learning new language vocabulary, our members worked hard on LD’s Special Site, learning about the effects and stigmas of cognitive/mental health that we may find in the Vietnamese community. Our members planned and produced materials for a variety of fun cognitive-building games and translated different texts from short stories to tongue twisters in addition to meeting and talking to new people in their teams!!"

Swipe to hear from LD's member spotlight, Jasmine Le, and hear more about their special site at Alta Gardens Senior Home!

Address

308 Westwood Plaza 411 Kerckhoff Hall
Los Angeles, CA
90095

Telephone

+17147025539

Website

http://www.vchbruins.weebly.com/

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In Fall 2006, Vietnamese Community Health (VCH) was initiated by five UCLA students to assess the health problems of the Vietnamese-American community that had not been addressed by any other organization on campus. Through extensive research and personal interviews with health care providers throughout Orange County, VCH discerned several health problems in the Vietnamese community in the Garden Grove and Westminster areas, including high cholesterol, diabetes, hypertension, hepatitis B, and cervical cancer; we found that an underlying cause of these issues is the lack of culturally sensitive health information and programs. VCH aspires to improve community health in the Vietnamese-American community through education, free services, and screenings throughout the Vietnamese community in Southern California. Equipped with a brand new staff for 2019-2020, VCH is excited to continue our traditions and expand our services. Just as the diversity in Orange County is growing, so are the health disparities within surrounding communities. This year, we aim to go beyond the Garden Grove and Westminster areas and provide our services in Santa Ana as well.