This curriculum is designed to guide advocates serving API survivors to violence over the lifecourse, dynamics of domestic violence against API women, and cases involving multiple batterers. It aims to help advocates understand the impacts of these dynamics on survivors and push and pull factors, along with the implications for leaving the batterer(s).
Related Resources
Domestic and Family Violence in Hmong Communities, 2019
Demographic data, statistics, and resources on domestic violence, sexual assault, and other forms of abuse in Hmong communities
Evidence-Informed Practices to Serve Asian/Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Survivors, 2018
To address the domestic violence dynamics and trends in API communities, advocates have designed programs based on an intimate knowledge of their communities and the needs of API survivors. This webinar identifies the differing dynamics and current domestic violence trends API immigrant and refugee survivors are facing. It will describe the A-Z Advocacy Model’s inventory of evidence-informed practices and the foundational principles that anchor this unique model.
Fact Sheet: Pacific Islanders and Domestic & Sexual Violence, 2018
A compilation of statistics on domestic violence, sexual violence, trafficking, and help-seeking.
Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault in the Pacific Islander Community, 2017
Erin Thomas, Asian/Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project (DVRP)
An overview of the geographical, historical, ethno-linguistic, and cultural diversity of Pacific Islander communities; historical trauma; and GBV trends.
