API Population Report Release

May marks Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month as well as Mental Health Awareness Month.  It is only appropriate then that the API Population Report, authored by Dr. C. Rocco Cheng on behalf of
55 community members, be released earlier this month.  The report highlights mental health disparities and promising practices, as defined by the Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) community within California.

The Asian Pacific Islander Strategic Planning Workgroup (API SPW) of the California Reducing Disparities Project is grateful to Assemblymember Paul Fong's (see photo above) office for having the API Legislative Caucus co-sponsor a legislative briefing on May 21st, 2013 in Sacramento, CA.  (see photo of the panel below)

During this time, Assemblymember Ed Chau, Assemblymember Adam Gray, (see photo below) and Senator Jim Beall remarked how this important publication could help to inform the direction of how to reduce mental health disparities among Asian Pacific Islanders in the years to come.

The report can be accessed by following the link below.

http://crdp.pacificclinics.org/resources/crdp/document/crdp-api-population-report-our-own-words.  Please feel free to offer your valuable feedback.

100 Mothers & Daughters Project

In the Asian culture, it's typically not common to share stories of one's families.  However, two organizations recently joined forces to chronicle some "Chicken Soup for the Soul"-style responses to question/answer survey.  

During the month of Mother's Day 2013, NATWA II and TaiwaneseAmerican.org released the product of the co-collaborative 100 Mothers & Daughters project (curated by project coordinator Emmy Pierce in 2012). Mother's Day 2013, which coincides with the start of Taiwanese American Heritage Week and the middle of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, stories of Taiwanese American mothers and daughters are shared.

Explore the project here: http://taiwaneseamerican.org/100people/100-mothers-and-daughters/ 

Please note that the posts were originally shared last year through the NATWA II project site thanks to Emmy Pierce's hard work: http://natwamothersanddaughters.tumblr.com/ .