CARE -- Chinese Age-well Research and Education
CARE History
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, Professor Weiguo Zhang, from the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto, launched a WeChat group chat named 'Senior Virtual Teahouse'. Based on this online community, CARE (Chinese Age-well Research and Education) was registered and established in Ontario on October 6, 2021.
CARE's Vision
To become a research base for professionals studying and working with Chinese Canadian elders, and to provide a wellness hub for Chinese-speaking elders to pursue lifelong learning and well-being in Canada.
CARE's Mission
Serving the Canadian Chinese elder community, committed to caring for and developing the physical and mental health of the elder Chinese-Canadians, improving the quality of life of the Chinese elders, creating a harmonious age-friendly community, implementing the goal of lifelong learning, and researching and exploring the pathway to happiness for elder Chinese-Canadians.
CARE's Objectives
Through academic research and effective services to Chinese-speaking elders in Canada, to strengthen their total capacity, promote civic engagement among them, and improve the community's overall well-being.
Values of CARE
Inclusion, Justice (Fairness), Respect, Cooperation.
+ Federal government
Eliminate elder abuse
+provincial government
anti racism, anti hate
+Ministry of Cultural Heritage of the Federal Government
Political Institutions and Civic Participation
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Our team(in alphabetical order by surname)
Guo Wei
Holds a master's degree in social work from the University of Windsor, Ontario. I am a registered social worker in Ontario.Serving non-profit organizations in Ontario for more than 10 years. Provided services to new immigrant students and parents in the primary and secondary schools of the York Region Public School Board. Now providing support to the elderly and family caregivers in the community.
Guo Xibo
Graduated from the Department of Mathematics of Nankai University in 1962, Professor of Mathematics, School of Science, Beijing Information Technology University
Li Li
Ontario Registered Social Worker
From Enshi, a small town in Hubei, graduated from the Department of Social Work (Gerontology) at the University of Toronto in 2018. Currently working in the mental health field.
Li Yuxin Sunny
Ontario Registered Community Worker. Since 2008, he has been working in non-profit & community mental health institutions. Part-time engaged in female growth training & consulting. In his spare time, he also participated in the translation of three mental health books, and served as the translation and proofreading of the application form and training materials of the Sino-Canada joint college student mental health project "Heart Connection".
Lucy Liu
Bachelor of Economic Law, Capital University of Economics and Business, Master of International Relations and International Law, University of Amsterdam.
Founded a consulting firm in Botswana, Africa. Worked as a research assistant for a university professor in Canada, engaged in investment and financial management. Long-term volunteers for CRA (Federal Tax Administration.) and other Chinese organizations.
Tian Jingwen
Workers, peasants and soldiers students, college graduates. Work in a Chinese company. After immigrating to Canada, I started a company with my brother. Back to work in China. Back to Canada in 2019. Now retired.
Xie whistle
Skilled immigrants came to Canada in 2000, worked as a teacher in China for ten years, and worked as an administrative representative in a non-profit organization in Toronto.
Yang Qiliang
The Radiology Department of Xiangya Hospital retired.
After retiring, I went to Africa to open a clinic for 20 years. Later immigrated to Canada.
Zhou Jianming
The Hunanese worked in Xiangya Hospital before retiring.After retirement, he went to Africa and immigrated to Canada in 2016.
Zhang Weiguo
President of Canada Elderly Research and Education Center
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto. In 1998, he obtained a doctorate in development from the Hague School of Social Research, the Netherlands. He has taught at the UNFPA Global Population and Development Training Program in Botswana.
The main research directions are social demography, gerontology and family sociology.
Youth Work Department
Kwon also for Patricia
Quan Yiwei (Patricia) is a master student (2023, Social Justice and Diversity) at the Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Canada.Her research interests are structural barriers to international students and temporary workers in Canada, anti-Asian racism, and community organizing and community-based research.Her master's thesis was based on a case study of a Chinese student-led campus initiative in Canada, supervised by Professor Izumi Sakamoto. She is also a research assistant for the pilot study "Looking Back to 2020: Intergenerational Conversations on Anti-Asian Racism During the COVID-19 Pandemic" and is completing her internship at Toronto Metropolitan University's Children and Youth Rights Transnational Collaborative Program (RCYP) .
Yi Jingjing
Graduated from the Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia, and is currently studying for a master's degree in education at the University of Toronto. She once worked as a student services assistant in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, and is currently working as a research assistant at the Voluntary Research Project of Sociology and the Anti-Asian Discrimination Project at the University of Toronto.
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