Community-Based Participatory Research, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Featured, New, News and Events, Research and Data, Uncategorized, Updated
This report explores and contextualizes the results from API-GBV’s 2023 needs assessment on AANHPI-serving GBV community organizations. The findings support a sustained need for culturally responsive programming and research; specialized training opportunities...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Featured, Gender-Based Violence, LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence, New, News and Events, Uncategorized, Updated
This factsheet summarizes the layered needs and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and more (LGBTQ+) Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) survivors and communities in the U.S., based on the current literature available. Although...
Featured, New, News and Events, Uncategorized
May 25, 2023 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kaylee Wong, kwong@api-gbv.org Today the Biden administration published its long awaited U.S. National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence: Strategies for Action. The National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence (National Plan)...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Directories, Featured, News and Events, Updated
Now updated for 2023 to include service categories such as mental health services, online/virtual services, and more! Asian and Pacific Islander activists in the anti-domestic violence movement are extraordinary, constantly building programs and organizing communities...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Featured, Gender-Based Violence, New, News and Events, Research and Data, Sexual Violence, Teen/Youth Dating Abuse, Uncategorized
AANHPI communities tend to be collective in nature, as well as hierarchical, to varying degrees. Both contexts complicate the concepts of consent and boundaries, especially for AANHPI youth and young adults, who often do not have opportunities to learn about the taboo...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Featured, New, News and Events, Pacific Islanders, Research and Data, Uncategorized
This research report addresses the scarcity of data regarding Pacific Islander communities and presents research on the diaspora in the U.S. It seeks to understand who is the Pacific diaspora in the U.S., where they came from and where they are located; to examine the...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Featured, New, News and Events, Pacific Islanders, Uncategorized
The Samoan Community Project builds on API-GBV’s Pasifika Power & Control Wheel Translation Project, which sought to adapt the well-used tool to Pasifika languages and cultural/community contexts. This report highlights the needs to unpack the Samoan words...
Featured, News and Events, Uncategorized
3/16/2023 Today marks two years since eight people, among them six Asian massage workers, were killed at spas in the Atlanta area. This heinous act of racial and gender-based violence resulted in terrible loss that devastated our communities, and its impact is still...
Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Featured, New, News and Events, Uncategorized
3/29/23 at 12:00pm PT/3pm ET Join this 45 minute virtual event to learn about the Asian Foster Family Initiative (AFFI) from Korean American Family Services (KFAM). AFFI is the U.S.’ first and only AAPI-focused foster family agency; it addresses the critical need for...
Featured, New, News and Events
Updated January 24, 2023 Just days after the tragedy in Monterey Park, we are shocked and extremely saddened to learn of the mass shooting in Half Moon Bay. We mourn the loss and injury of eight victims and share our condolences with their loved ones. Our hearts break...
