"Building a Dream Community: Expand Our Dream" chronicles the remarkable growth of Friends of Children with Special Needs (FCSN) during the years 2021-2025 and celebrates the organization's 30th anniversary. As a sequel to "Friends of Children with Special Needs: Building a Dream Community," this volume continues the story of how a small support group founded by Chinese American parents in Silicon Valley evolved into one of the largest nonprofit organizations serving individuals with speci...

"Friends of Children with Special Needs" is a compilation of narratives, speeches, reports, articles, and other firsthand accounts that tells the history, work, and current activities of Friends of Children With Special Needs (FCSN). FCSN is a ground-breaking organization run by many dedicated workers and volunteers who hope to fill the emotional, physical, social, and any other needs of families who have children with special needs. These special needs can run the gamut of topics, the spe...

In 1922, San Francisco Daily News investigative journalist, Max Stern, posed as a down-on-his-luck cannery workers to uncover corrupt hiring practices and deplorable labor conditions employed by Chinese contractors and Alaska salmon canners. Stern's collective articles spotlighted the discrimination, exploitation, profiteering, and mistreatment of cannery crews and exposed the corrupt, abusive practices of the labor contract system. In thirty-seven articles published daily between Septembe...