Know Your Rights During COVID-19 COVID-19 is affecting all aspects of our society, including how, when, and where we live and work. Now more than ever, being informed about our rights is critical as immigrants and workers. Please review and practice Know Your Rights and Know Your Worker Rights and have active safety plans. And please remember, if you are concerned about ICE activities or deportation, you can call the HANA/NAKASEC 24-hour Korean language hotline at 1-844-500-3222. Read HANA Center’s statement in English, Korean, and Spanish
HANA Center – Citizenship, Immigration, Housing & Legal Services Visit the HANA Center website for more information on all of their citizenship, immigration, housing & legal services: https://www.hanacenter.org/ihls As a DOJ recognized organization, the HANA Center assist immigrants at varying stages of the immigration process, providing a wide array of application services: citizenship, adjustment of status, Consular processing, family petition, re-entry permit, and the smaller steps in between (passport, interpretation and “Green Card” renewal and replacement. As a Housing and Urban Development-certified housing counseling agency, HANA Housing Services address barriers to affordable housing faced by Korean and other immigrants through one-on-one counseling, information, and referral services. We also host workshops in related areas. The goal of the program is to aid immigrants with limited English proficiency (LEP) to access affordable housing resources and understand tenant-landlord rights & fair housing law. HANA Housing Services help low to moderate income families remain in their homes via financial planning or even post-purchase education. Our housing program also assists LEP seniors in exploring housing options through public housing lists and aids in completing their senior housing applications. HANA Center administers the IDHS’s Welcoming Center’s Housing and Utility Assistance Project, which was established to provide temporary emergency assistance to immigrants, refugees, and Limited English Proficient (LEP) individuals who have experienced a COVID-19 related financial hardship between March 1, 2020 and December 30, 2020. FREE LEGAL CLINIC – Our free legal clinic volunteer attorneys provide initial direction and advice in Spanish, Korean, and English. Immigrants have great difficulty in accessing or understanding the United States legal system. In addition to the significant monetary barrier for low income families, immigrants also face difficulties in securing legal services that are linguistically and culturally competent. They are often left with no option but self-representation, despite having no legal training or support. This situation too often results in individuals unable to communicate with court officers, and being unable to read and interpret court documents/notices. To address this base language barrier, they often bring friends or their children to provide translation. Nevertheless, because these translators are also unfamiliar with legal terminology, interpretations are often fraught with errors. While low-income immigrants have a great need for legal services (particularly in the areas of immigration, housing, credit and finance, domestic violence, and employment law), they are unable to meet these challenges.
COVID-19: Breaking the Chain of Infection – UCLA Fielding School The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting all of us in Los Angeles, California, and the world. There’s a lot of information out there, but it can be complex and confusing. The following pages outline helpful facts and tips. We are still learning about the virus so, as we get new information, the recommendations on what to do may change and theses page will be updated. View the page here: https://ph.ucla.edu/news/fsph-news/covid-19-breaking-chain-infection Click here to view this information: en Español, 한국어로, Tiếng Việt, 中文（简体），中文（繁體), Հայերեն
Letters for Black Lives Letters for Black Lives is an open letter project on anti-Blackness. “Letters for Black Lives is a set of crowdsourced, multilingual, and culturally-aware resources aimed at creating a space for open and honest conversations about racial justice, police violence, and anti-Blackness in our families and communities.” “We began as a group of Asian Americans and Canadians writing an intergenerational letter to voice our concerns and support for the Black community. We have since grown to include other immigrant groups and communities of color. Our goal is to listen, support, and amplify the message of Black Lives Matter within our communities.” “We encourage people from all communities to adapt and build off of these resources.” Visit the website at https://lettersforblacklives.com/
CPACS | COVID Multilingual Community Resources This resource was created to provide information about COVID-19 (coronavirus) to Georgia’s AAPI and immigrant communities. Resources have been collected from various national, state, and local agencies and organizations and reviewed by CPACS staff to provide in-language and culturally competent information. Check out the resources Google Drive here If there are any issues and concerns, please contact [email protected]. We thank you for your support during this time. CPACS is a nonprofit located in Atlanta, Georgia. Our mission is to promote self-sufficiency and equity for immigrants, refugees, and the underprivileged through comprehensive health and social services, capacity building, and advocacy.
NAKASEC | Community Resources for COVID-19 From NAKASEC: On March 4, 2020 the World Health Organization declared “coronavirus (COVID-19)” as a global pandemic. We know it’s been a hard couple of weeks for our community. We are surrounded by uncertainty and fear not only over COVID-19, but the ugly truth of racism against our communities that’s coming to harsher light along with this pandemic. Our hearts go out to you, we hope you’re doing okay, and we want to assure you that we’re doing everything we can to make sure we’ll get through this safely together. Now is the time for our immigrant AANHPI community to hold onto each other tighter than ever. We must remember that many of us cannot work from home and are not covered by government aid packages. To address these gaps, we’ve created this COVID-19 community resources page. This list of resources is not meant to be exhaustive, but a good starting point to point our folks in the right direction so that they can get to the resources that they need. Visit the resources page here In addition to keeping this list updated, we will also include policy updates in English and Korean that our communities can find on this page below (include posts with the tag corona). If our folks would like more immediate updates and action alerts, join our listserv and follow us on social media (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram).
NAPAWF*NYC | Multilingual BLM Materials As a pan-Asian organization, NAPAWF*NYC understands the complications in communicating with our family and friends who have different language abilities, represent different generational identities, and have varying understandings of racial analysis. This is a crowdsourced repository of materials in Asian & Pacific Islander diasporic languages we can all use to navigate difficult discussions about Black Lives Matter, anti-blackness, American history, and police/state-sanctioned violence with our families and communities. Visit their document here
Sujata Strategies | Anti-Racism Resources for South Asians and AAPI Community Compiled by Sujata Tejwani of Sujata Strategies, this document is a list of stand-alone resources and other compilations of many resources to guide work on Anti-racism, Racial Justice and Abolition – especially for the South Asian diaspora and in the region itself. Included are short articles, long articles, graphics, books, movies, TV and podcasts. Many may also focus on ending casteism, colorism, Hindutva and Islamophobia in our communities and in India as these are tightly connected to being Anti-Racist and ending anti-blackness. View the resources document
APANO | COVID-19 Resource Hub Since mid-March, APANO has shifted and re-aligned their work to address and advocate for community needs during these challenging times. They have tried to respond to the most pressing needs by hearing from our community, while also leaning into our core area of advocacy work to shape our collective response to COVID-19. The resources on APANO website include: Guide to COVID-19 Resources including food, mental health, general updates, and more Resources and agencies related to housing, food, legal aid, financial services, and others for WA County Resources in multiple languages for current health advisories on COVID-19 Courage During COVID is a series of stories of APIs in Oregon showing courage in this time APANO’s Small Business Support and Advising Program Oregon Worker Relief Fund Visit the APANO COVID-19 Resource Hub here
KRC | EDD Application Guide in Korean Provided by the Korean Resource Center, this resource is a video to aid in the EDD application process for access to financial support and other support services. [긴급] 코로나 실업, 실업보험 신청법 / 캘리포니아 EDD 신청법 / 온라인 강좌 / 혜택은 디테일에 숨어 있다 /