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...
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 What is Gendered Islamophobia? 2021 WebinarBuilding upon a history of...
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...
Community-Based Participatory Research, Gender-Based Violence, LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence, Teen/Youth Dating Abuse
With You: Queer and Trans Koreans Surviving Violence (2018) is a community-based research report about queer and trans Korean Americans and abuse [family violence, intimate partner violence]. It is also an effort to document and reflect on our own experiences. It is...
Asian Pacific Islander Demographics and Census Data, Asians and Pacific Islanders
These factsheets provide a detailed look at 10 groups of Asian Americans by national origin, including data on educational attainment, income and poverty, civic participation, language diversity, immigration and nativity, labor-force participation, and access to...
Gender-Based Violence, Sexual Violence
Throughout the years that KAN-WIN has been serving Asian American and immigrant sexual assault survivors, staff have uncovered numerous obstacles such as extreme shame felt by survivors and language barriers when dealing with law enforcement. Furthermore, while...
Asian Pacific Islander Demographics and Census Data, Asians and Pacific Islanders, Domestic Violence, Gender-Based Violence, Research and Data, Sexual Violence
Domestic and gender violence manifest differently across communities: prevalence and incidence rates, attitudes to domestic violence and help-seeking, culturally rooted types of abuses, and traditional norms for women and men, vary. This factsheet on violence and help...