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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE - UNDERSTSANDING API AND HMONG
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Understanding API and Hmong domestic violence --
Asian & Pacific Islander (API) Institute on Domestic Violence provides a
host of information including
An overview:
http://www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute/default.htm
A fact sheet:
http://www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute/GenderViolence/factsheet.htm
A description of distinct features of domestic violence in API
populations
http://www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute/GenderViolence/analyze_c.htm ,
and
Facts and resources on domestic-related homicides in API populations:
http://www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute/CriticalIssues/Homicides.htm
Further information
http://www.hmongstudies.org/
http://hmongstudies.org/Hmong-AmericanandLao-AmericanStudiesPresentation.pdf
Services
Facts and translated resources specific to domestic violence in Hmong
population:
http://www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute/GenderViolence/Hmong.htm
Some services listed, including translated resources, are provided by
the Hmong American Friendship Association of Milwaukee and its Southeast
Asian Family Strengthening Project:
http://www.hmongamer.org/
Community Responses
Local Initiatives -- Everest Men Respect Women, a Weston, WI initiative
to address domestic violence in the area; initiated after two highly
publicized cases in which Hmong wives were killed by their estranged
husbands:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q21gOYU9XcY
See also Westons Feb. 2008 and Oct. 2007 Focus newsletters (
www.westonwisconsin.org ).
A posting from Weston Village Administrator, Dean Zuleger, describes the
program
(
www.westonwisconsin.org/government/blog.php ):
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