Actions Panel
Recognizing Sexual Assault in AAPI Communities
Date and time
Location
Sakina Center
7211 Regency Square Boulevard Suite 101 Houston, TX 77036Description
Recognizing Sexual Assault in AAPI Communities is a training for service providers, advocates, and volunteers that work with Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities. Learn about what is sexual assault, what are unique challenges AAPI face in reporting or seeking services, and what are ways we can provide more culturally competent services for sexual assault survivors.
SPEAKER
Firoza Chic Dabby is the Executive Director of the Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence. She served as Director of the Asian and Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence from 2001-2013. Before that, she was Narika’s Executive Director and at the Psychological Services Center for 17 years.
Ms. Dabby has been in the field of gender-based violence for over thirty years acquiring expertise on domestic violence against Asian immigrant and refugee women; violence over the life course and its effects on health, mental health, economic security, and help-seeking; international and domestic sex trafficking; intimate homicide; child custody; strategies for advocacy, community engagement, systems change, and movement building; program design and implementation; forced marriage; trauma-informed care; elder abuse; battered mothers in the child welfare system; and sexual violence, particularly in conflict and disaster zones. She writes, trains, and presents extensively about these and many other issues.
SPONSORS
Daya provides culturally specific services to South Asian survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence (API-GBV) is a national resource center on domestic violence, sexual violence, trafficking, and other forms of gender-based violence in Asian and Pacific Islander communities.
An-Nisa provides support and resources to families in crisis, including domestic violence. An-Nisa provides a structured support system needed to regain self-sufficiency and a comfortable place in society.