David Chen Retires After 35 Years of Service to CPC
CPC Board of Directors Chair Jenny Low (left) with CPC CEO David Chen (right)
A Letter from CPC Board of Directors Chair, Jenny Low:
Dear CPC staff, supporters and friends,
This week, David Chen announced to the Board that he will be retiring in May 2015, after 35 years of service to the Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC).
David joined CPC’s Project Reach in 1980 and became the Assistant Executive Director for Youth Programs by 1986, two years later he was promoted to Deputy Director of CPC and in 1992 was appointed to Executive Director/CEO of CPC. Under his leadership for the past 22 years, CPC has grown to become the largest Asian American social service provider on the East Coast.
Under David’s leadership, CPC has expanded its services to include 50 programs in 30 locations, meeting the needs of 8,000 plus residents throughout New York City each day. Below are highlights of CPC’s achievements.
- Creation of 12 after-school and in-school programs for underserved youth and teens, including: Youth Employment and Internship Programs (Ladders for Leaders, SYEP), Beacon after school community centers, and Project Gateway college options program
- Increasing the number pre-school and after-school childcare centers to 14
- Transformation of CPC’s workforce development division to enable individuals to successfully find careers in a variety of industries including hospitality, building construction, retail, and luxury retail
- Building the state of the art Open Door Senior Center at 168 Grand Street, one of three CPC senior centers
- Expansion of CPC’s multi-social service walk-in centers to Queens and Brooklyn
- Driving the growth of CPC’s Home Attendants Program that serves over 2,400 clients
Trained as a social worker, David is among the top practitioners in the Asian American community. His breadth and depth of the social service needs in our community is well recognized by those across the social service arena.
Quoted in a retrospective piece written about CPC, David shared that “the paradigm for social service organizations is shifting once again. Dedication and sincerity is no longer enough- what is also demanded is professionalism. In order to serve the community, we ourselves must grow, as an organization, and as individuals.”
As a testament to his belief in making CPC stronger, he led our Board through a proactive and thoughtful 9-month strategic planning process around CPC’s future. Thanks to this work, CPC is well positioned for its next phase of leadership. The Board is currently taking steps towards its succession plan, and will conduct a national search for David’s successor. We look forward to sharing updates with you on that process.
CPC is planning a celebration for David’s retirement. Invitation will be sent as soon as the details are available.
Please contact Mabel Long at mlong@cpc-nyc.org or Edgar Pereira at epereira@cpc-nyc.org who will forward all informational requests to the Board.
Sincerely,
Jenny Low
Board Chair
親愛的華策會工作人員，支持者和朋友們：
在美國華人埠策劃协會(華策會)服務了三十五年的陳受權先生於本週向董事會呈辭並將於二零一五年五月榮休卸任。
陳受權先生於1980年加入華策會青少年輔導服務，並在1986年成為助理總裁主管青年服務，兩年後，他被晉升為華策會副總裁。1992年被任命為華策會總裁。
在過去的22年裡，在陳受權先生的領導下，華策會發展成為美國東岸美籍亞裔最大的社區服務機構，擴展到擁有三十個服務中心，服務項目達到五十項。每天為超過八千個大紐約區的市民提供服務。下面是華策會服務成績的重點：
為待助的青年和少年創建了十二項課後和在校服務，包括：青年就業和實習項目（Ladders for Leaders，暑期青年工作計劃），社區課後輔導中心，龍門大學選擇服務項目
學前幼兒園和課後托兒中心增加到十四所
將華策會的職業培訓部門進化到讓每個求職人士都能夠成功地在各行各業，包括酒店，建築，零售和高級零售中找到職業。
在格蘭街168號建立了最完善的人瑞中心，是華策會三個老人中心之一
將華策會的多元化社會服務中心擴展到皇后區和布魯克林區
令華策會為超過二千四百個服務對象提供家庭服務計劃
作為一個訓練有素的社會工作者，陳受權先生是亞裔社區之中寥寥可數的頂尖人物。他對我們社區社會服務需求的了解和認識的廣度和深度得到整個社會服務領域的高度認可。
引用在一篇關於華策劃會的回顧中，陳受權先生分享了：“社會服務機構的模式再次轉營。單有奉獻和誠意已經不夠 - 更需要的是專業性。為了更好地服務社會，作為一個組織，乃至個人，我們自己必須成長。”
為了證實他那個華策會可以更強的信念，他帶領我們的董事會經過了一個爲期九個月，圍繞著華策會的未來而進行的積極和深思熟慮的戰略規劃進程。受惠於這項工作，華策會完全有能力在下一階段繼續發揮領導作用。董事會目前正在按步就班地實行接班計劃，並在全國各地物色華策會新總栽任者。我們期待著與您分享這個進程的新發展。
華策會正在籌備陳受權先生的榮休歡送會。邀請函將會於詳情確定後發送。
欲知詳情，請與龍筱梅 (Mabel Long) (mlong@cpc-nyc.org) 或 Edgar Pereira (epereira@cpc-nyc.org) 聯絡。
此致，
劉林劍虹
華策會董事長