Innovative intervention and prevention strategies by programs serving Asians, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders have arisen as accommodations and alternatives to traditional service models, crafted by necessity, vision and intentionality. As advocates grapple with problematic issues within their communities, they engage in resistance - countering cultural justifications, developing innovative prevention and intervention strategies, organizing to confront community complicity and systems failures.
Abused women, children and their community allies resist gender violence in the covert or overt ways and spaces available to them. Their struggles occur in the contexts of additional structural oppressions, be they racism, anti-immigrant sentiments, homophobia, class elitism, etc. Cultures are not merely sites where multiple oppressions are enacted; but where so many of us - abused or not, survivor and advocate - engage in resistance and change through radical or reformist agendas, through negotiation and subversion, within and without existing state and community institutions.
Blanketed By Blame
A simple skit to show the complicated ways communities blame domestic violence survivors instead of supporting them. A popular community organizing tool used nationally!
Engendering Change: Transforming Gender Roles
By Chic Dabby & Grace Poore
Framing Batterer Accountability in the Context of our Work as Advocates
By Grace Poore
Innovative Strategies to Address Domestic Violence in Asian & Pacific Islander Communities: Emerging Themes, Models and Interventions
By Mimi Kim
The Community Engagement Continuum: Outreach, Mobilization, Organizing and Accountability to Address Violence Against Women in Asian & Pacific Islander Communities
By Mimi Kim
Training Curriculum: Community Engagement
By Mimi Kim
Training Curriculum: What does Cultural Competency Mean & Why should I Care?
By Sujata Warrier
Power Point Slides: 15 minutes version, 45 minutes version, 60 minutes version.
