The Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence is a national resource center and clearinghouse on gender violence in Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities. It serves a national network of community-based-organizations; advocates and professionals in legal, health, mental health, and social services; government agencies; state coalitions; national domestic and sexual violence organizations; and activists from communities and social justice organizations working to eliminate violence against women. Its goals are to strengthen advocacy, promote community organizing, and influence systems change. It identifies and addresses critical issues, provides technical assistance and training, conducts research, and engages in policy advocacy.
What We DO
- Analysis of critical issues, trends and policies affecting Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander victims/survivors of gender-based violence;
- Capacity-Building and leadership development in established and start-up programs;
- Interpretation Technical Assistance & Resource Center Advocacy, training and technical assistance on implementing Title VI, manuals and briefs on spoken language interpretation, working with and obtaining certified court interpreters;
- Policy Advocacy on custody, funding for culturally & linguistically specific services, language access for domestic violence victims with limited English proficiency;
- Publications Bibliographies, directories, fact sheets, reports, technical assistance briefs;
- Research Compiling ethnic-specific data; primary research on criminal justice responses, help-seeking behavior, domestic violence related homicides;
- Resource Center Funding opportunities, glossaries, policy briefs, promising practices, research reports, translated materials;
- Technical Assistance on domestic violence, sexual violence, trafficking; and
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Training advocates and social and legal service providers at national, regional, state-wide and metro-area conferences on culturally-relevant intervention and prevention models and community engagement strategies.
