The Oakland, California-based community health center serves mostlylow-incomeAsian immigrants who speak limited English. As a community health worker, Kim now also practices lay counseling under a licensed therapist's supervision. She does not have a license, but as a Korean immigrant and strong-a...
A TANF Program for Southeast Asian Americans in Oakland, California]]>Welfare reformAsian American and Pacific Islanderrefugeeshard-to-servecultural competenceAchieving economic self-sufficiency through employment is the ultimate goal of recent changes to the welfare program. The Asian American and Pacific...
In the past year, there was always that feeling of no one really cares and no one's paying attention outside of the community. It was always really frustrating to see that major news outlets did not cover a lot of the violent incidents that happened to Asian Americans. That was really f...
National Finance Committee members and helped organize high-dollar and grassroots fundraising events. Lia is now an award-winning Deputy Media Director with an Oakland-based political consulting firm working with progressive candidates who are fighting for marginalized people and our future leaders of ...
Seagram and fellow rapper Gangsta P were both shot by an unidentified gunman while they were getting out of a van in East Oakland. P survived his wounds but Seagram died an hour after the shooting at Highland Hospital, having sufferedmultiple gunshot wounds. Police say Seagram released a song...
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How to support the Asian American Pacific Islander community right now amid the rise of hate crimes.
The man who sent the footage of the attack to Lim was Carl Chan, who represents the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce. Chan, who has spent the past 30 years trying to give a voice to his community, is currently working on installing even more surveillance cameras to deter further assaul...
Dr. Thu Quach from Asian Health Services in Oakland says the recent rise of hate crimes in the U.S. against Asians during the pandemic, has only added to the stress many people in the community were already feeling. "Many Asian Americans, particularly immigrants, they have come from...
community activists said was due in large part to concerns about public safety. In San Francisco, a conservative-led effort to recall the progressive DAChesa Boudinsucceeded in part because organizers appealed to Chinese American voters who were alarmed by the rise in violence. In Oakland and ...