APPEAL is hosting its first Leadership Summit dedicated only to young adults! Help spread the word.
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Join us on #WorldNoTobaccoDay 5/31/18 for a free webinar on Tobacco Cessation in Asian American communities! Hear from Asian Smokers’ Quitline and Center for Pan Asian Community Services!
Register Here: https://cc.readytalk.com/r/7bjgczx57h48&eom
The first day of Lunar New Year is on Feb 16, 2018 and it’s fast approaching! Some of our Asian community members may be busy with getting ready for the Lunar New Year and thinking about a resolution for the year of the dog. ASQ has prepared a pack of lucky red envelopes which will be given to each caller who calls ASQ to inquire about materials on how to quit smoking or to complete an online enrollment to receive a quit smoking service. Red symbolizes good fortune in Chinese and Vietnamese cultures, which is why red envelopes are widely used during Lunar New Year and other celebratory events. To celebrate the year of the dog and to wish everyone will have a healthy start of the New Year, red envelopes will be given out to Chinese and Vietnamese callers from now till February 20th while supplies last!
Refer to the ASQ website for more information. Language services available in Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Korean, and English!
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
This has been a challenging year for our communities and our country. Immigrant communities, communities of color and LGBTQ people have been under attack led by the growing xenophobic leadership in our country. And if that is not enough, the problems of tobacco and unhealthy eating have increased in many of our Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. We, at APPEAL, believe that these injustices against our communities require a strategic, comprehensive approach that builds community power and community leadership especially among the younger generation. For nearly 25 years, APPEAL has helped to build community leadership and power to help fight injustices through a nationally-renowned community leadership program resulting in the training of over 1,100 leaders and advocates in the U.S. and the Pacific.
Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment, Advocacy and Leadership (APPEAL) is a national non-profit health justice organization dedicated to eliminating tobacco use and obesity in the Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities and other communities of color through public health education and advocacy.
We hope that you will join us in supporting APPEAL’s important leadership development work by making a donation of $500 or more. If you would like to make a donation, please click here. This will help us launch our “Youth for Equity and Justice” leadership initiative for 10 young adult leaders in 2018. We have raised $6,500 so far out of our goal of $10,000. Thank you to those of you who have generously donated to this campaign.
APPEAL’s leadership model has been the pillar of our movement on tobacco control and healthy eating and active living. By training and nurturing local leaders, APPEAL is ensuring the sustainability of advocates who can organize their communities to address critical health justice issues. Your contribution is an investment in the long-term health and well-being of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities. Now more than ever we need you to consider a contribution to ensure continued progress in 2018. Your generous and timely contribution is greatly appreciated.
Sincerely yours,
Rod Lew, MPH
Executive Director Board Chair
Kaying Hang, MPH
APPEAL’s Making Waves summit provided an opportunity to discuss strategies to advance health equity for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities and other communities of color to eliminate tobacco use and obesity for future generations.
Summit Agenda: 2017 APPEAL Making Waves Agenda
Presentation slides from panelists will be uploaded soon:
Day of Community and Strategy: Thursday, September 21, 2017
Tobacco and Obesity Data on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders: Data and Community Approach
Paula Palmer, PhD
Claremont Graduate University, School of Community & Global Health
The Changing Landscape of Tobacco Control: Considerations for Policy, Planning, and Practice
Brian King, PhD, MPH
Office of Smoking and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Critical Issues in Tobacco and Obesity for AANHPIs
Electronic Nicotine Delivery Devices
Irene Linayao-Putman, MPH
County of San Diego Health & Human Services Agency
Healthy Eating and Active Living (HEAL)
Fahina Tavake-Pasi
National Tongan American Society (NTAS)
Youth and Young Adult Engagement
Jake Ryann Sumibcay, MPH
Claremont Graduate University, School of Community & Global Health
Successful Strategies on Tobacco and HEAL
Capacity Building
Jin Lee Johnson, MPH
MN Association of Community Health Centers
Community Policy
Alisi Tulua
Community Advocate
Mainstream Policy
Sambo Sak
Families in Good Health
Legislative Policy
Wat Sintharattana
Center for Pan Asian Community Services (CPACS)
Roundtables
Table 1: Tobacco 101
Joann Lee, DrPH
APPEAL
Table 2: HEAL Food Campaigns
Cathy Vue, MPH
Asian Services in Action (ASIA, Inc.)
HaRi Kim
Koreatown Youth and Community Center
Table 3: HEAL in the Community
DeHorne Sia
HOPE Clinic
Joseph Gonsalves
Hui No Ke Ola Pono, Inc.
Table 4: ENDDs/Marijuana
Elaine Ishihara, MPA
Asian Pacific Islander Coalition Advocating Together for Healthy Communities (APICAT)
Table 5: Tobacco Cessation
Janice Tsoh, PhD
UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
Kamahanahokulani Farrar, MHRM
Na Pu’uwai Native Hawaiian Health System
Table 6: Other Tobacco Products
Arnab Mukherjea, DrPH, MPH
California State University, East Bay
Plenary Panel: Growing Our Movement
Michael Byun, MPA
Asian Services In Action (ASIA, Inc.)
Shra Alik
Pacific Partners for Tobacco Free Islands (PPTFI)
Elaine Ishihara, MPA
Asian Pacific Islander Coalition Advocating Together for Healthy Communities (APICAT)
Day of Equity: Friday, September 22, 2017
Carol McGruder, APPEAL Health Equity Award Recipient
General Session Panel:
Getting to Equity in Tobacco and Obesity in a Challenging Environment
Claradina Soto, PhD, MPH
University Of Southern California Keck School Of Medicine
Gloria Soliz, M.Div, TTS
Coalition of Lavender-Americans on Smoking and Health (CLASH)/The Last Drag
Rebecca DeLaRosa, MPA
Latino Coalition for a Healthy California
Tana Lepule
Pacific Islander Community Health
What’s Next for Tobacco Control?
Marijuana
Phillip Gardiner, DrPH
UC Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP)
Health Care Systems
Elisa Tong, MD, MA
UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center
What’s Next for HEAL?
Soda Taxes
Kula Koenig
American Heart Association
Food Justice
Shaniece Alexander, MSW
Oakland Food Policy Council (OFPC)
Successful Tobacco/HEAL Policy Strategies
Community Leadership Development and Policy Change
Jaime Martinez, M.Ed
ClearWay Minnesota
Maximizing Retailers’ Responsiveness to FDA Regulatory Authority in Minority Communities
Jimi Huh, PhD
Institute for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention, University of Southern California
HEAL Policy Change
Xavier Morales, PhD, MRP
The Praxis Project
Opportunities for Equity
Measures of Change: Institutionalizing Health Equity within Tobacco Control
Rhodora Ursua, MPH
APPEAL
Voices from Health Department Equity Leaders
Lloyd Nadal, MA
California Department of Public Health
Office of Health Equity Advisory Committee
Paj Nandi, MPH
Washington State Department of Health
Tobacco is the single-greatest, preventable source of death and disease among racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. Tobacco companies continue to target communities of color and, in particular, youth with menthol and other flavor additives. Let’s chat about that, shall we?
Kick Butts Day is a national day of activism that empowers youth to stand out, speak up, and seize control against Big Tobacco. This Kick Butts Day on March 16, 2016, 1-2 p.m. (Pac) APPEAL is gathering groups dedicated to fighting the effects of tobacco for a Twitter chat (#KickButtsChat) aimed at bringing the key goals of Kick Butts Day to our diverse communities of color:
- Raise awareness of the problem of tobacco use in our communities;
- Encourage youth to reject the tobacco industry’s deceptive marketing and stay tobacco-free; and
- Urge elected officials to take action to protect kids from tobacco.
We hope you’ll join us and some of the key networks working toward the health of communities of color for #KickButtsChat on Twitter, March 16, 1-2 p.m. (Pac).
Some of the questions we’ll ask are:
- How does tobacco use affect our communities? Youth prevalence? (Stats, disease prevalence, etc.)
- Do menthol and other flavorings pose a threat to youth in the general population and youth in our communities in particular and, if so how?
- What are the most commonplace and/or events where tobacco product marketing occur to reach youth/teens frequently in your city, town, or community and are incentives associated with tobacco use?
- What are some of the most relevant spokespersons, celebrities, or figures (e.g. relatives, peers) who use some form of tobacco that youth/teens identify with or influenced by?
- Effective resources for cessation?
- Any upcoming tobacco control events to promote by us and/or the other networks?
We’re hoping that responses will be specific to each community and really draw out resources and strategies that are culturally/linguistically appropriate for particular communities of color.
Featured participates for the chat include:
@KeepItSacred – National Native Network
@nationalcouncil – National Council for Behavioral Health
@SelfMadeHealth – Self Made Health Network
@AAHC_HOPEClinic – HOPE Clinic, Houston
@Health4Americas – Nuestras Voices Network – National Alliance for Hispanic Health
@LGBTHealthLink – LGBT Health Link, a program of Center Link
@NAATPN – NAATPN, Inc.
@GeoHealthAlliance – Geographic Health Equity Alliance
@tobaccofreekids – Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
Thhank you to our presenters and to all those who participated in the webinar!
For those who missed the webinar, a recorded version is available here.
Please join us for an important webinar featuring the tobacco control work underway in Hawaii and the Pacific Islands. These are two regions with unique challenges in eliminating tobacco-related health disparities. The region’s youth are vulnerable to targeted marketing by the tobacco industry and multiple jurisdictions across the Pacific make creating consistent tobacco control policy uniquely difficult. In 2015, Hawaii became the first state to raise the age of purchase of tobacco products to 21 years old. Join us as we discuss current tobacco control efforts and future plans to surmount challenges facing the region.
Date: March 9, 2016, 2:30pm PT/March 10, 2016 8:30am Guam
Featured speakers:
May Rose Dela Cruz, DrPH – ‘Imi Hale Native Hawaiian Cancer Network
Elizabeth Guerrero – Pacific Partners for Tobacco Free Islands
Register at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/tobacco_control_HI_PI
Deadline to register: March 8, 2016
We’re excited to invite all of our partners, friends, and neighbors to our Open House to celebrate APPEAL’s recent move to new offices!
The Open House is scheduled Tues., March 1, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m., 424 3rd. St., Suite 220, Oakland, CA, 94607 – in the Jack London Warehouse District.
Stop by to chat and check out our new digs, as well as light snacks and refreshments.
Please RSVP to [email protected] or (510) 844-4147.
#APIWorldCancerDay Twitter Chat was a huge success with an incredible amount of information shared by the RAISE Partners about programs and strategies proven to address cancer in AANHPI communities. Thank you to everyone who participated. If you missed the chat, please visit the Storify and check it out!
World Cancer Day, coming up on February 4, is a day to raise awareness and get as many people as possible talking about this terrible killer and changer of lives. Cancer, of course, affects millions from every ethnicity, but Asian Americans, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPIs) are the first ethnic group to experience cancer as the #1 cause of death. So, the members of the RAISE Network will focus the discussion toward our vulnerable communities through a Twitter chat under the hashtag #APIWorldCancerDay from 1-2 p.m., Pacific Time.
RAISE is a network of national and local organizations working together to prevent and reduce tobacco use and other cancer-related health disparities in the diverse AANHPI communities. The partners that comprise the network use evidence-based public health models and strategies that are culturally competent and population specific.
The #APIWorldCancerDay Twitter chat will feature RAISE Partners answering key questions around the issue of cancer in AANHPI communities and sharing proven strategies that have demonstrated success in the fight against cancer in our communities. Below are some the questions we plan to address during the chat:
- What cancers affect AANHPI communities the most?
- Most successful program to boost screening & which cancer does it address?
- How do you reach out to different AANHPI communities and what barriers do you face?
- What types of support/resources do you provide to help those with limited English proficiency?
- What types of support/resources do you provide to help those going through/surviving cancer?
- What resources are need most in addressing cancer in AANHPI communities?
Please join us for #APIWorldCancerDay, Feb. 4, 1-2 p.m., Pacific.
Featured RAISE Partners for the chat include:
@aapchotweets & @hepbpolicy Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO)
@AAHC_HOPEClinic HOPE Clinic, Houston
@appealhealth Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment, Advocacy, and Leadership
Find out more about the RAISE Network and the partners here.