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Supporting Survivors. Cultivating Healing. Building Accountable Communities.

We know that when survivors face abuse, they first turn to their close networks. Through Community Organizing, we train these networks to prevent and respond to violence through support, leadership and skill building programs that are language and culture specific. This creates supportive environments for all survivors in their daily lives - in their homes, at their places of worship, in their schools, their workplace, and neighborhoods.

Interested in API Chaya’s Community Organizing programs? Fill out our participant interest form and our lead program staff will follow up with you!

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    Natural Helpers Program

    With the long-term vision of creating a world that better supports survivors, our Natural Helper program is a leadership development and education program that supports community members in learning about human trafficking, domestic and sexual violence, the societal forces that create conditions for violence, as well as in skill building around how to respond to harm, injustice, and how to support survivors.

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    Youth Program

    The youth organizing team is led by young leaders who aim to grow youth leadership, transform intergenerational trauma into intergenerational power, and mobilize young people to address systems of oppression by cultivating skills, learning, connections, and strategies for healing together.

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    Queer Network Program

    Queer Network Program aims to nurture and empower Queer and Trans Survivors of Color and the broader intergenerational QTBIPOC communities using storytelling, collective learning and healing, and caring labor to turn towards each other.

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    Community Education Series

    In 2016, we launched the Community Education Series to make our training more accessible to more people in our communities. This training series takes place every 4th or 5th week of the month and rotates between four core topics twice a year: domestic violence, sexual violence, human trafficking and community organizing & bystander intervention. Natural helpers who are interested in co-facilitating these trainings meet monthly. For more information, contact volunteer@apichaya.org.

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    FYRE

    Filipino Youth Reunite to Elevate (FYRE) is a leadership development program for young people to grow their community organizing skills (such as peer facilitation) and take action in response to issues (including gender-based violence) that impact Filipino youth, in order to nourish our intergenerational relationships as well as make positive change happen within our homes, schools, and communities. For more information please contact nikki@apichaya.org.  Facebook.com/YouthOnFYRE. Instagram: 206FYREflies

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    RISE!

    RISE aims to center the experiences of survivors of sexual assault and abuse and is grounded in the healing power of art for the purpose of healing and transformation.

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    Disability Justice Project

    Launched in 2015, the Disability Justice Program (formerly known as Disability Liberation Project) seeks to illuminate the brilliance of d/Deaf and disabled people as they break isolation and navigate tensions within gender-based violence and disability in their community. Contact jessie@apichaya.org if you're interested in getting involved (especially if you're a LGBTQ and/or immigrant or person of color with a disability)!

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    Community Solutions

    Community Solutions is a pilot program which offers paid skill building, mentorship, and a safer place for reflection and growth for people interested in creating options outside of the criminal legal system to respond to sexual harm. To get involved, contact priyan@apichaya.org.

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    Peaceful Families Taskforce

    The Peaceful Families Taskforce (PFT) aims to raise awareness of gender-based violence and its prevention within faith-based communities, and to support community members who may be experiencing harm.