Dear Community,
We at NAAPIMHA want to emphasize at this moment that you are not alone and we stand with you.
We acknowledge the heavy mental health toll of this past year and election season. We feel the anxiety, uncertainty, and fear surrounding the election results and the likely difficult conditions in the years ahead. We want to emphasize the importance of being in touch with your body, mind, and spirit at this time, giving ourselves grace as we process whatever we are feeling.
We know many of us are struggling and hurting right now and it is more important than ever to honor our mental health and build a community of care rooted in intersectional justice, solidarity with all marginalized peoples, anti-Blackness, decolonization, and global liberation. This includes our sustained commitment to calling for an end to the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
At times like these, we are particularly called upon to honor our ancestors and recognize the inherited resilience we carry forward from them, as well as the organizing of BIPOC, queer, & trans-led movements on which our work stands.
We at NAAPIMHA will continue to champion the mental health and well-being of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities, our youth, our elders, LGBTQ2SIA+ folks, neurodivergent and disabled folks, immigrant communities, pregnant-capable persons, and our fellow communities of color.
We reaffirm our commitment to uplifting Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander mental health through training, programs, and policy & advocacy, centering those with lived experience and fighting against stigma and for access to care for all.
(We invite you to visit naapimha.org/vote-for-wellness to view and register for our mental health support space offerings during this post-election season time)
In the coming days, months, and years, we must lean into both self and collective care, AANHPI joy, creative ways of healing, and traditional cultural knowledge. We must sustain our push forward by embracing cycles of being, where we grieve, radically rest, gather, mobilize, and repeat.
We hope you will join us in our ongoing work to address racial violence and discrimination, ensure community safety, and uphold humanity.
In community and solidarity (and no small amount of hope),
-The NAAPIMHA Team
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