Monthly Updates and Resources from API-GBV |
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Domestic Violence Awareness Month is around the corner! |
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The need for social distance has changed how many of us do community engagement. With Domestic Violence Awareness Month 2020 around the corner, we are interested in learning about how your outreach strategies will change or move online, and understanding how we can be of support. We would love to help amplify your messaging, outreach, stories, program accomplishments, and promising practices to challenge the myth that domestic violence doesn't happen in Asian households. During October, we also plan to launch regular connect-calls for AAPI advocates to network and dialogue, and will be ready to share more info soon. |
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With everything that's been going on in the world, we hope that you are taking needed time out of the very important work that you do to take care of yourselves and your loved ones. Our thoughts are with those who have been affected by the fires in northern California and by Hurricane Laura. |
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Immigration policy updates:
The Alliance for Immigrant Survivors (AIS) has been working in collaboration with over 100 other organizations to create the 2021 Immigration Action Plan, a set of concrete, actionable and fully articulated proposals for the next administration that address every stage of immigration policy and processing.
The 2021 Immigration Action Plan recommends 10 actions towards protecting the health, safety, and economic security of immigrant survivors of domestic-, sexual-, and other forms of gender-based violence.
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Part 3 of our series on trauma-informed care for AAPI survivors series. If you missed parts 1 and 2, recordings and materials will be available here.
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And save the date for a webinar on advocacy for API LGBTQ survivors and communities! 9/30/20 at 10am PST. Info to come soon.
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Although back to school season is looking very different nowadays, the reality is still that more than 50% of college sexual assaults happen in August-November, the first 6-10 weeks of school. Many universities are still operating out of victim-blaming narratives that de-legitimize survivors' experiences and re-trigger trauma.
Visit the 2020 #ReclaimRedZones campaign, a collaboration between End Rape on Campus and The Every Voice Coalition to learn more about reclaiming the parts of daily life that sexual violence trauma interrupts. |
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NNEDV's DV Counts 1-day survey opens on 9/11/20 at 8am ET
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Asians are least familiar with the census and the least likely to fill out the census form, out of any other racial group, according to a recent survey from CBAMS. Let's change that and make sure that federal funding for important things like schools, roads, and hospitals reaches our communities. We need to make sure we are accurately represented in the 2020 Census, the last chance for the next 10 years to get counted!
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How is the pandemic affecting low-families? Share your story
NY Times reporter Jason DeParle is collecting stories about the economic hardships of COVID-19, particularly on communities of color.
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News and Updates from the Field:
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Analysis: The Impact of COVID-19 on Immigrant Survivors of Gender-Based Violence (Tahirih Justice Center): For immigrant survivors, loss of employment, lack of access to benefits, and isolation, among other conditions, make the pandemic a particularly difficult time.
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COVID-19 has Gifted Us a Chance to End Gender-Based Violence. We Must Take It (The Guardian): If the world can unite to beat coronavirus, it should apply the same energy to rooting out abuse
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Femicide is a Growing Issue in the United States (Teen Vogue): The killings of Vanessa Guillén, Oluwatoyin Salau, Nina Pop, and many more are part of a global problem
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How COVID-19 is Affecting Assault Survivors Seeking Care (The Appeal): In New York, fewer people who have experienced sexual assault or rape have sought forensic exams at hospitals during the pandemic. But advocates suggest that's not evidence of declining SV.
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The Recent Rise in Asian American Hate Crimes could have Impacts beyond the Pandemic (Popular Science): Anti-Asian hate crimes can generate a "network of trauma" that spreads throughout an entire community.
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Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence
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