Resilience in Response to
Anti-Asian Harassment Training To Be Offered in Thirteen Asian Languages
Advancing Justice - AAJC
and Right To Be Work With Community-Based Organizations To Bring Training
Directly To Impacted Communities
WASHINGTON D.C. – As we enter into Asian Pacific American
Heritage Month, Asian Americans Advancing Justice –
AAJC and Right To Be (formerly
Hollaback!) have announced a new initiative to equip twelve community-based
organizations across the country to bring their “How to Respond to Anti-Asian
Harassment and Practice Resilience When Experiencing Anti-Asian Harassment”
training directly to impacted communities. Trainings will be delivered
in-person and in thirteen Asian languages in addition to English, including
Cantonese, Dari, Hindi, Hmong, Karen, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Mandarin, Nepali,
Pashto, Tagalog, and Vietnamese.
Since launching joint trainings in the spring of 2020 on
how to safely respond to anti-Asian hate and harassment, Advancing Justice –
AAJC and Right To Be have reached over 100,000 people through free online
training sessions on bystander intervention, conflict de-escalation, and how to
respond when experiencing anti-Asian harassment.
“We felt it was important to move beyond the online format
and offer training in-person and in Asian languages,” said
Marita Etcubañez, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Advancing
Justice – AAJC. “By equipping community-based organizations to deliver
the training in different Asian languages, we aim to bring this training to
audiences we have not yet reached, including members of our community who may
not have found the online format easily accessible. We also hope
that offering training in-person will create opportunities for dialogue about
the harassment that Asian Americans continue to face and the solutions that the
community feels are needed.”
The new initiative was born out of a desire from local
organizations to build resilience in their communities in response to the surge
in anti-Asian hate in recent years. Partner organizations will be adapting the
core training to reflect the specific needs of the communities they
serve.
“As Asian Americans continue to experience anti-Asian hate
and harassment, we wanted to find more ways to directly support the community,
especially our elders here in Houston, to learn about how to address
harassment, both in the moment and how to begin healing afterwards,” said
Jannette Diep, Executive Director of Boat People SOS Houston. “We are
so pleased that our staff are now able to provide anti-harassment training and
are excited to host in-person trainings in Vietnamese, and in partnership with
OCA Houston, in Chinese.”
“AJSOCAL is thrilled to bring this updated How to Respond
curriculum in-person to Asian and Asian American communities in southern
California,” said Christina Yang, General Counsel and Pro Bono Director
for Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California. “We
have been providing the bystander intervention training since 2021, but that
training focuses more on allies of the community, so it’s exciting to now also
offer the How to Respond training, which more directly addresses how folks of
Asian descent can take care of themselves if they experience harassment.”
Under this new initiative, partner organizations anticipate
hosting a combined one hundred training sessions in 2024.
"I am both grateful and inspired by our collaboration
with Advancing Justice – AAJC to make our anti-harassment training more
accessible and relevant to Asian communities across the nation,” said
Jorge Arteaga, Vice President of Movement Building at Right To Be. “By
delivering these crucial trainings in-person and in thirteen different Asian
languages, we are not just educating people on how to respond to anti-Asian
harassment; we are empowering them to reclaim their right to be respected and
safe in their communities. Our hope for this next phase of our work is to
deepen our impact and reach even more folks who can benefit from these
resources, fostering resilience and action against hate and harassment in every
form."
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