Asian Resource Hub
Rising incidents of hatred against the AAPI communities lead to creation of a comprehensive national resource database.
Asian Resource Hub
The Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC) The Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC) and the Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California (AJSOCAL), two among America’s leading advocacy organizations serving the AAPI communities, have come together with tech giant Microsoft to create the Asian Resource Hub. This is the first national searchable digital directory of resources and data relating to the AAPI community to support survivors of hate incidents.
The launch of the Asian Resource Hub was announced on February 29 at a news briefing by Ethnic Media Services (EMS). The resource hub offers searchable information on AAPI community-serving organizations that offer legal aid, social services, mental health support, policy advocacy, and civic engagement opportunities.
Salient Features of the Asian Resource Hub
The Asian Resource Hub provides:
- Nationwide resources for culturally competent services in languages like Korean, Vietnamese, simplified and traditional Chinese; plans to expand to Hindi, Teymur and Tagalog (Filipino)
- Emergency and Crisis Hotline link
- Community Reporting Tools for AAPI hate incidents
- Data on hate crimes combined from FBI and local law enforcement agencies, as well as public and nonprofit sources
- Timelines of key policies, events, and personal narratives related to anti-Asian discriminatory and hate incidents, from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act and Stop Asian Hate community protests nationwide
- The impact of hate on Asian populations is amplified through photographs, charts, maps, pop-up text stories, and other visualizations
- Storytelling format used to illustrate facts about the AAPI people and the hate they face
- A national directory of community-based organizations…
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