Our students received acclaim and a feature in the main Chinese Bay Area Newspaper- “Sing Tao” “ Sing Tao” is the #1 NEWSPAPER for the Chinese, Cantonese, Mandarin etc speaking population- Chinese Press in the Bay Area, and has a HUGE readership. It is a HUGE boon to have a “lay” organization included, featured in this NEWSPAPER. It demonstrates the efficacy of our outreach to a wide and increasingly diverse audience. Details of the event are as follows. For the 2nd year in a row, over 200 students and staff participated in the Chinese Newcomers Service Center annual food drive in the heart of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Over 5,000 food bags were assembled and 3,500 elderly Chinese speaking clients were served at the Chinatown location. The trainees also helped the San Francisco Department of Environment to educate food drive clients on the Green Home Assessment Program. Job Corps students provided invaluable staff support in making the food drive a seamless success. The food drive was an extensive community service opportunity for the students and staff at Job Corps and provided a forum for them to nurture, support and practice cross-cultural and cross-lingual communication. When working with elderly, regardless of what language a student spoke, it was universally required that the student draw on their multi-generational experiences and use patience and gentleness while providing crowd safety and responding to questions. Prior to the food drive, in preparation for this multi-cultural and multi-generational event, the Security and Chinese speaking students participated in a cross-cultural diversity training to break the ice, practice ways to communicate with each other and to build team cohesion. Besides Job Corps, many community groups and businesses participated in the food drive. The Job Corps trainees received many accolades for their professionalism, engagement in the job they were doing and the easy flow between the trainees. It was noticed by community members that the trainees were multi-culturally mixed and the way the trainees were able to be with the Chinese elders as well as the seamless flow between the trainees across culture helped to redefine stereotypes sometimes held.