Healing Resources for AAPI Communities

Healing practices, resources, and service provider directors compiled for the Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community in the wake of a spike of anti-Asian hate crimes and violence

AAPI-led Virtual Healing Opportunities

• Subtle Asian Mental Health Listening Spaces *not a replacement for therapy (Asian Mental Health Collective)

• Circle of Healing for AAPI folks (Minka Brooklyn)

Resources

Asian American mental health and healing

• Open in Emergency (Asian American Literary Review) - An arts and humanities intervention to decolonize mental health, a community effort, led by guest-editor Mimi Khúc, to collectively ask what Asian American unwellness looks like and how to tend to that unwellness.

• Care in the Time of Coronavirus (Asian American Feminist Collective)

Healing racialized trauma

• My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies (Resmaa Menakem)

Anti-racism in clinical practice

• Moving from Cultural Competence to Anti-racism

• Race, Racism, & Clinical Practice (Community Technical Assistance Center of NY)

Combatting Anti-Asian violence and transformative justice

• Anti-Asian violence resource compilation

• Creative Interventions: Resources for everyday people to end violence (Mimi Kim)

Bystander intervention resources

• Hollaback! Free Bystander Intervention Training

• Safety Tips for Those Experiencing or Witnessing Hate

• Don't be a Bystander: 6 Tips for Responding to Racist Attacks

Mutual aid

• Pods and Pod Mapping Worksheet (Mia Mingus)

• Transformative Mutual Aid Practices (T-MAPs Community)

Service Provider and Organization Directories

• APISAA Therapist Directory (Asian Mental Health Collective)

• Asian Canadian Therapist Directory (Asian Mental Health Collective)

• Organizations Directory (Asian Mental Health Collective)

• Inclusive Therapists

Articles

• People of color create their own mental health services online (CNN)

Organizations to Support

• Asian Mental Health Collective

• Red Canary Song

• Butterfly - Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Network 

• Asian American Feminist Collective

• Asians Do Therapy

• Project Lotus

Accounts to Follow

• @asiansformentalhealth

• @asianmentalhealthcollective

• @asianmentalhealthproject

• @kaichengthom 

• @asians4abolition

• @asians4antiracism

This list is being updated on an ongoing basis. Please email us at contact@idha-nyc.org if you have recommended resources for us to add.