Domestic Violence, Featured, Gender-Based Violence, Homicide, Lifecourse Violence and Help Seeking, News and Events, Research and Data, Updated
The 2020 updated and expanded Facts and Stats Report contains new statistics on domestic violence, community attitudes, health and mental health impacts, help-seeking behavior, domestic violence related homicide, and more. The Facts & Stats Report, consistently...
Featured, New, News and Events
Survivors of gender-based violence in AANHPI communities often face numerous barriers to meaningfully participating in elections, including safety and privacy concerns, laws that disenfranchise many voters, language barriers, and for survivors who are homeless or...
Featured, Gender-Based Violence, LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence, New, News and Events
This report summarizes and synthesizes discussion from a roundtable on GBV in Asian, Middle Eastern, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander LGBTQ communities, convened by API-GBV in September 2019. Attendees discussed how gender manifests as a site of oppression for...
Featured, Gender-Based Violence, LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence, New, News and Events
Domestic violence and intimate partner abuse have often been understood in terms of men’s violence against women. However, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer-identified individuals consistently experience intimate partner violence at similar rates as...
Featured, Gender-Based Violence, LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence, New, News and Events
This report summarizes a presentation by Grace Poore, Regional Program Coordinator for Asia and the Pacific Islands at Outright Action International. The presentation and following Q&A set the context of struggles and activism for LGBT rights in Asian countries,...
Culturally-Specific Community & Systems Engagement, Featured, Innovative Strategies, New, News and Events
This tipsheet 1-pager, developed by Korean American Family Services (KFAM) describes some suggested practices for working with faith leaders on DV/SV response and prevention. Related Resources Facts & Stats Report: Domestic Violence in Asian and Pacific Islander...
Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Culturally-Specific Community & Systems Engagement, Featured, Innovative Strategies, New, News and Events
Almost 70-80% of Korean immigrants in the U.S. reports that they attend church regularly. Korean American Family Services (KFAM) has encountered so many survivors whose faith play a very important role for their journey to healing. Because of this reason, KFAM has...
Featured, Innovative Strategies, New, News and Events, Trauma Care Practices, Trauma-Informed Care
Presented in collaboration with four AAPI community organizations and shelters, this webinar series explores the impacts of trauma on AAPI survivors and communities. Presenters share insight about working with survivors in shelter and through immigration and legal...
Community-Based Participatory Research, Featured, New, Research and Data
After the success of the first Survivor-Centered Advocacy Project (SCA1) and the rich findings of each team, Institute staff envisioned a way to take the work to the next stage and develop a way to build on the knowledge that was generated in SCA1 by centering the...
Community-Based Participatory Research, Featured, New, Research and Data
The Survivor-Centered Advocacy Project (SCA Project) was developed under a deliberate vision for “research justice” that seeks to: Explicitly address the imbalances of power and privilege in traditional research relationships and dominant positivist...
