ISPS Presentation AAPI ppt 2022 conference

Presentation by Asian Americans Sandra Cheng, Pamela Inaba, and Dr. Pata Suyemoto on Peer Support, with notes on Asian American history, and current statistics and resources on violence against Asians since Covid.

1. LACCC, Inc. & NAAPIMHA
present
@ iSPS-US 2022
Peer Support for
Asian American,
Native Hawaiian,
& Pacific Islanders
Sandra Cheng, Pam Inaba,
& Dr. Pata Suyemoto

2. Sandra Soe-Chin Cheng
Sandra Cheng is a Taiwanese American artist,
a peer mentor, and website designer for the
Los Angeles County Client Coalition,
Wildflowers' Movement, & other organizations.
Lately she is obsessed with the video game
“Animal Crossing New Horizons”, Mosaic
Crochet, and freshly shucked oysters.
from New Jersey & Southern California

3. Pamela Aiko Inaba
Pamela Inaba, is a Japanese-American Consumer
Advocate, Counselor, and
Grassroots Organizer for over 50 years who's
assisted people from ages 2-92 years through
Holistic Recreation Therapy and Psycho-Social
disciplines to achieve Resilience and Wellness.
from Marina Del Rey, California

4. Dr. Pata Suyemoto is a feminist scholar, writer,
educator, curriculum developer, equity trainer, mental
health activist, artist, jewelry designer, and avid
bicyclist.
She is the Training Director for the National Asian
American Mental Health Association (NAAPIMHA) and
the director of the National Asian American Pacific
Islander Empowerment Network (NAAPIEN).
She is also the Associate Director of Equity for the
Massachusetts Coalition for Suicide Prevention (MCSP)
Her claim to fame is that she rode her bicycle across
the country in 2012
Dr. Pata Suyemoto
Woburn, Massachusetts.

5. The first Asian-origin people
known to arrive in North
America after the beginning
of the European colonization
were a group of Filipinos from
Manila known as "Luzonians"
or "Luzon Indians” from 1587
-1850.
The first Large –Scale Asian
Immigration to California was
in 1848
Immigration

6. 01
Governmental Discrimination
1876 Pigtail ordinance
1882 Chinese Exclusion Act
1900 Plague
02
Massacres
1871 Los Angeles (17 killed)
1885 Hells Canyon (34 killed)
1887 Rock Springs (28 killed)
03
Expulsions
1885 Eureka CA
1886 Seattle WA
04
Riots
1907 Bellingham WA
1930 Watsonville CA
Asian Americans survived at least three
sources of trauma

7. Wing F. OngKamala Devi Harris
1854
1946
Yung Wing
Asian Firsts
1886 1933
2021
Dr. Anandabai JosheeKiyoshi Patrick Okura

8. Second Bubonic Plague
In 1899, Honolulu officials quarantined and
burned Chinatown as a precaution against the
bubonic plague
Pandemics
CoronaVirus
The number of hate
crimes and hate
incidents increased
over 300%
nationally since
covid began.
First Bubonic Plague
Dating back to the
nineteenth century,
the bubonic plague
was framed as a
“racial disease”
which only Asian
bodies could be
infected by whereas
white bodies were
seen as immune
Third Plague
1855-1945
18-20th c.
541-750
6-8th c.
1347-1840
14-19th c
2019
21st c.
Sasanian Empire
Justinian

9. 1942-1945 EXEC Order 9066
If you have a great-great-grandparent who's
100% Japanese, you might expect to have
1/16th (about 6%) Japanese ethnicity.
WWII -Japanese American Internment Camps
Anyone who was at least 1/16th Japanese
was evacuated, including 17,000 children
under age 10, as well as several thousand
elderly and disabled residents.
82,219 survivorswould
receive reparations in 2019,
about 66%
1862 deaths
125,284 people
were imprisoned.
There were about 260,000
AAPI at the time.
46% of all Asian
Americans were
imprisoned for3 years.
Reparations in 2019
From all causes
in camps

12. Forty-Seven by Pata Suyemoto

13. Intergenerational
Trauma
Intergenerational
trauma can be passed
down through
epigenetics
as well as
psychological impact

14. Pam Inaba
I am "sansei" which is third generation
Japanese American. I was on a transfer
from South Central LA to Marina del Rey
Jr. High. My fellow Asian students didn’t
seem to like my set of Black friends and
they shunned me. I was outcast by my
own race so I ended up feeling like an
outsider. This made me very confused
about my self-image and left me feeling
very depressed. I only just realized that
this was a type of bullying that I suffered
throughout my adolescence.
Sansei in Marina del Rey, CA

15. Model Minority Myth
Individuals who identify
as Asian American may
feel pressured to meet
these cultural
expectations

16. Acts of Racism: 1982 Vincent Chin (Michigan)
Beating him to death
Ebens and Nitz blamed
Chin for the success of
Japan's automotive industry.
Their light sentence of a fine
without jail time galvanized
a civil rights protest.
“Japan bashing”
Against the backdrop of
high anti-Japanese
sentiment in the USA
Chin was Japanese and
witnesses described them
using anti-Asian racial
slurs as they attacked
him...

17. Acts of Racism: Recent Covid Hate Crimes
2021 Spa Shootings
Soon Chung Park, age 74
Hyun Jung Grant, age 51
Suncha Kim, age 69
Yong Yue, age 63
Delaina Ashley Yaun, age 33
Paul Andre Michels, age 54
Xiaojie Tan, age 49
Daoyou Feng, age 44
(Georgia)
Christina Yuna Lee, age 35
Michelle Go, age 40
(New York)
2022 Manhattan
Shootings

18. Laguna Woods May 15, 2022shooting
The Accused,
Chou (69)
considers
himself and
Taiwanese as
"all Chinese"
of a single
country
without
border.
The victim,
Cheng (52)
was killed
after trying
to stop the
shooter.
Taiwanese
Church
hate crime
Orange
County,
California

19. https://stopaapihate.org/

20. Asian American
Groups
Having collected over 9,000
reports since March 19, 2020,
Stop AAPI Hate tracks and
responds to incidents of hate,
violence, harassment,
discrimination, shunning, and
child bullying against Asian
Americans and Pacific
Islanders in the United States.

21. Report aHate Crime Anonymously
Dial 211 to submit an
anonymous report
Online:
https://211la.org/la-vs-hate

22. 5Ds of Bystander Intervention
Distract -ie. Pretend to be lost and ask for directions.
Delegate -Ask someone to assist you with the encounter
Document -Ask the victim what they want you to do with it
Delay -Check back in with the victim later.
Direct -Are you and the victim safe?
-Will the situation escalate?
-Does the victim want someone to speak up?
https://iheartmob.org/

23. Sandra’s Activism & Peer Supports
Wildflowers’ Movement
http://wildflowersmovement.com
Crisis Response Team
http://lacrt.org
Mental Health America Jumpstart fellowship
https://www.mhala.org/training-and-education/jump-start/
Los Angeles County Client Coalition, Inc.
https://lacclientcoalition.org
NAMI In Our Own Voice
https://www.nami.org/Support-Education/Mental-Health-Education/NAMI-In-Our-Own-Voice

24. Pam’s Activism
California Depressive and Manic Depressive Association, now
Depressive and Bipolar Support Alliance: https://dbsalliance.org
Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Committee, now
Asian American Pacific Islander Equity Alliance: https://aapiequityalliance.org
ACCESS Ambassador, Cal Voices, ACCESS California: www.calvoices.org
Los Angeles County Client Coalition, Inc.: https://lacclientcoalition.org
Wildflowers Movement: https://wildflowersmovement.com
South Bay Asian Coalition: [email protected]

25. Pata’s Activism
NAAPIMHA:
Director of Training
Director of NAAPIEN
MCSP:
Associate Director of Equity
Widening the Lens Toolkit
https://www.naapimha.org
https://masspreventssuicide.org/widening-the-lens/

26. Thank you!
Contact us anytime
Growing Liberty by Budi Aryo @tokofoss, adapted by Sandra Cheng @ W is for Web
Pam Inaba [email protected]
https://lacclientcoalition.org
Dr. Pata Suyemoto [email protected]
https://naapimha.org
Sandra Cheng [email protected]
https://wildflowersmovement.com

27. See this list online with this visme link