Stop asian american and pacific islander (AAPI)hate proposes to implement stop AAPI hate community-based approaches to prevent and address hate crimes and/or hate incidents

The purpose is to develop a holistic, multi-disciplinary, trauma-informed, community-based approach to documenting AAPI hate incidents and provide crisis response, care and healing to those individuals and communities affected by hate incidents. Key areas for activities include: data and research on AAPI hate incidents in partnership with AAPI communities; policy advocacy to educate, inform, and provide technical assistance to prevent anti-AAPI hate; community care to partner with communities to center healing and improve crisis response including further work on a landscape analysis of existing resources and models; and strategic communications & digital media to sustain public education and conversations on anti-AAPI hate and scapegoating. Expected outcomes include the formation of a multidisciplinary team to develop and evaluate community-based strategies for affected individuals and communities including: the establishment of partnerships with AAPI/black, indigenous, and people of color organizations engaging in community care/healing work; the expansion of community healing pilots; and increased awareness through media and social media engagement around AAPI hate incidents.