Help Hyphen make an important magazine issue on AAPI health go to print! | #APIHealthTalk
Hyphen Magazine, the nation’s premiere Asian American magazine needs your help to help fund their next print issue, which will…
Tag: Mental Health
LA hosts free API Hope & Recovery Conference for #AAPI #MentalHealth clients, family & caregivers
On October 29th of this year, the Los Angeles County’s Department of Mental Health (LACDMH) is sponsoring the 9th Annual…
World Suicide Prevention Day: Asian American & Pacific Islander #MentalHealthMatters | #WSPD14
Today is September 10th, and it is World Suicide Prevention Day, part of this week’s National Suicide Prevention Week. On this…
LA play explores mother-daughter relationships & stigma of mental illness among AAPI
Artists at Play is a relatively new Asian American theatre collective in Los Angeles, and they are proud to announce…
Obama advisor & director of WH Initiative on #AAPI shares family history of mental illness | #MentalHealth
The statistics on mental health in the Asian American community are staggering, if well-known to regular readers of this blog: Asian…
LGBTQ Native/Pacific Islander youths (aged 13-18) most likely to self-harm, attempt suicide
A new study published two months ago in the American Journal of Public Health delves for the first time into the…
Report shows San Francisco’s AAPI residents experience high poverty, chronic disease rates
Jessica Kwong (@JessicaGKwong) of the San Francisco Examiner summarizes a recent report issued by the Asian Pacific Islander Council titled “Asian and Pacific…
May 10 is #AAPIMentalHealth Awareness Day: Let’s talk about on-campus depression & suicide | #APAHM2014
Jiwon Lee was a fourth-year dental student at Columbia University and president of Columbia’s American Student Dental Association. This past April, she took…
Suicide rate of Bhutanese Americans twice national rate, highest among any refugee population
Despite the precepts of the Model Minority Myth, not all Asian American & Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in the United States…
For those looking to run an on-campus workshop on #AAPI mental health: my ITASA presentation
I just got back from a great workshop I ran for ITASA ECC 2014 on Asian American mental health and…
Chinese Canadian Comp Sci Prof. asks students to write a program: “Will a rape victim commit suicide?”
Dr. John S. Shieh, a computer science professor at Newfoundland’s Memorial University, is in hot water after asking his student’s…
Register NOW for ITASA 2014 East – includes a workshop run by me!
ITASA (Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association) 2014 (East) is happening in just 3 short weeks at Yale University, and I’m honoured…