Weijing Shi, MSW
VP of Community Building
646.744.2951
wshi@cknyc.org
Linkedin
Ms. Weijing Shi has abundant and diverse work experience as an educator, social worker, and community leader. She has worked with many community organizations within New York City and abroad over 20 years.
Since 1998, Weijing has been dedicated in doing Chinese education, social work clinical work; community engagement, outreach and leadership work in the Boroughs of NYC Chinese community. She was a clinical social worker at Sunshine Mental Health Project of Lower Eastside Service Center, CCM Long Term Home Health Care Program and Charles B. Wang Community Health Center (CBWCHC); was a clinical coordinator of NYC DOHMH Mental Health Hotline Asian LifeNet; was a director of Chinese American Planning Council (CPC) Brooklyn Branch and a Chinese Liaison of NYU Langone Health Brooklyn (Lutheran Health System). Her experiences include conducting intake and psychosocial assessments, collaborating with a professional team to formulate and implement multi-disciplinary treatment plans, providing individual and family counseling and psychotherapy to clients who have mental health and psychosocial issues, host a variety of support groups, carrying out case management service, benefit entitlements, health and housing support, crisis intervention, domestic violence services, older adult service, community education, outreach and advocacy.
Weijing also has had many opportunities to learn and improve her community outreach and education skills and build a substantial network of colleagues and partners within the NYC Chinese community. She has approached all her previous positions as chances for career advancement and learning. Weijing is a certified social work field instructor, who has provided supervision services for the MSW interns from New York University School of Social Work, Columbia University Social Work School, CUNY Hunter College, University of Washington School of Social Work and Fordham University School of Social Work. Through her hard work, she has earned a good reputation from the Chinese community as a community leader, organizer and educator.
Weijing is currently a VP of Community Building of CaringKind, The Heart of Alzheimer’s Caregiving. With her extensive background in social work, education, and keen understanding of the Chinese community, she delivers CaringKind’s mission and services by promoting its unique approach to care for Chinese individuals and their families affected by Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia. She provides active awareness, outreach and engagement activities particularly to Chinese community and important constituents training and community education by using best practice and culturally sensitive approaches. Conducts outreach activities and education sessions to share information on brain health, memory changes and available services and supports with community members, organizations and providers serving older adults and families impacted by dementia; promotes healthy living and enhances the well-being of older adults; uses grass roots methods within Chinese community, and best practices to address challenges like trust, access, and language barriers; provides dementia capability training for important constituents and ensures all CaringKind programs and services are delivered with seamless and efficient execution to the Asian community.
