OUR AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Contact us to inquire about any of the following areas, we can provide technical assistance

• Culture, Cultural Defenses: how culture is used to justify violence against women, using cultural defenses in the courtroom, issues about testifying, cultural competency, analysis of patriarchy and gender
• Community Organizing: planning campaigns and strategies around issues and events, assessing community strengths
• Custody, Mediation: issues affecting API families, analyzing gender bias
• Forced marriages: intervention strategies particularly for teenage and/or young women
• Homicides: API contexts, honor killings, mother-child suicides, research, legal advocacy issues, prevention, community organizing
• Innovative Strategies: services and outreach for Asian and Pacific Islander communities, specialized programs - e.g., serving queer women, religious minorities, rural women.
• LBT Domestic Violence: intervention, prevention and community organizing for Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender women in abusive relationships
• Mental Health: effects of gender violence, trauma-informed services, issues for API abused women, programs for men who batterer, training issues for mental health service providers, suicidality
• Organizational Issues: development and capacity building, confidentiality and safety, developing training manuals and charts
• Over reliance on the criminal legal system
• Sexual violence: issues and contexts for API girls and women, affirmative aspects of sexuality, inter-generational conflicts over sexual orientation
• Research: participatory action research models, collaboration between researchers and advocates, data collection tools, contextualizing data
• Trafficking: recommendations for domestic violence programs serving trafficked women and girls, socio-political issues
• Training: designing and providing training for staff and volunteers re: API domestic violence and services, community organizing, and cultural competency training for trainers

The Institute's Resource Center has other materials of interest to domestic violence providers and advocates serving Asians and Pacific Islanders.  We welcome your inquiries and look forward to providing technical assistance.