2018 Community Service Award (Chinese American Council of Sacramento and CACS Foundation)
2017 Medical Community Service Award (The Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical Society)
2016 Sleep Train Community All-Star (Sleep Train Arena/Sacramento Kings)
2015 API Champion Award (API Democrats of Sacramento County and California Young Democrats API Caucus)
2014 Civil Rights Social Justice Award (OCS – Asian Pacific American Advocates)
2013 Social Welfare & Community Activism Award (Exceptional Women of Color)
2012 100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the United States (Filipina Women’s Network)
2011 Community Service Award
2011 Allied Professional Award (Congressional Victims’ Rights Caucus)
2009 Top Food and Shelter Award (Great Food and Shelter Program)
2009 Future 5 Award (Outstanding Non-profit – Sacramento Asian Chamber of Commerce)
2008 Community Service Award (Asian Bar Association of Sacramento)
2008 Soroptimists of South Sacramento Award
2007 Philippine Fiesta Community Best Award
2007 Uplifting Human Values Awards (Art of Living)
2006 Sacramento Housing Alliance Award
What We’ve Accomplished
Our 6-bed Safe Haven shelter opened in 2003. In ten years, we have:
With support from the California-Office of Emergency Services and WEAVE, Inc. My Sister’s House will be operating a 6 bed shelter focused upon massage parlor and brothel trafficked victims which we are calling the “Lotus House.”
Provided more than 52,000 bed nights of shelter to Asian & Pacific Islander and other underserved women and children;
Responded to over 21,500 calls to our 24-hour multilingual Help Line;
Served more than 4,000 domestic violence survivors of all ethnicities in our award-winning Women to Work program
Legal assistance to more than 800 clients
Made more than 800 presentations on domestic violence and human trafficking to local school, businesses, organizations, and places of worship and participated in more than 250 community fairs, educating more than 50,000 people about domestic violence and human trafficking;
Hosted twelve annual conferences to train over 500 service providers from communities across the Central Valley on cultural competency and working with battered immigrant women
