CACF Resources
This World Mental Health Day, Discover How Collective Healing Supports Community Mental Health
On World Mental Health Day 2024, CACF released a new brief on the importance of funding collective healing programs.
Collective Healing: Mental Health For The Community, By the Community (2024)
In October 2024, CACF and Access Health NYC released “Collective Healing: Mental Health For The Community, By The Community,” a policy brief focused on how policymakers and government officials can support collective healing, a non-traditional form of mental health care that includes options like youth mental health workshops, culturally responsive wellness programs, and linguistically accessible social groups for seniors.
CACF Celebrates 20 Years of the Asian American Student Advocacy Project (ASAP)
When CACF founded the Asian American Student Advocacy Project (ASAP) in 2004, none of us could have envisioned the powerhouse of youth advocacy and community building it has since become.
Coalition for Asian American Children and Families Response to FY 25 NYC Budget
The Coalition for Asian American Children and Families (CACF) issued the following statement on Monday, July 1, 2024 on behalf of its over 90 AAPI-led and -serving member organizations in response to Sunday’s vote by New York City Council on the New York City Budget.
CACF’s Asian American Student Advocacy Project Youth Leaders to Host Community Briefing Highlighting Current Advocacy Campaigns
Now celebrating its landmark 20th year, ASAP was first founded in 2004 by CACF to create a space for young AAPI New Yorkers to discover how they can be self-aware and informed advocates for themselves, their communities, and their fellow public school students.
AAPI Groups Rally in Front of Queens Borough Hall for Fair and Equitable Budget
The Coalition for Asian American Children and Families’ (CACF) 18% And Growing campaign and dozens of their Queens-based members and partners gathered outside Queens Borough Hall on Tuesday to call on New York City Council to support a fair and equitable budget that centers the needs of New York’s most marginalized.
Brooklyn AAPI Advocates Rally for Equitable Budget in Leif Ericson Park
The Coalition for Asian American Children and Families’ (CACF) 18% And Growing campaign and dozens of their Brooklyn-based members and partners gathered in Leif Ericson Park on Thursday to call on New York City Council to support a fair and equitable budget that centers the needs of New York’s most marginalized.
Bronx-based 18% and Growing Campaign Partners Rally in Parkchester for Renewed Investment in AAPI Community
The Coalition for Asian American Children and Families’ (CACF) 18% And Growing campaign and dozens of their Bronx-based members and partners gathered in Parkchester on Wednesday to call on New York City Council to support a fair and equitable budget that centers the needs of New York’s most marginalized.
CACF and 18% and Growing Campaign Rally for Fair and Equitable NYC Budget on Steps of City Hall
The Coalition for Asian American Children and Families (CACF) and the 18% And Growing Campaign gathered nearly 200 community members, service providers, community leaders, advocates and elected allies on the steps of City Hall on Thursday morning to call on New York City and City Council to support a fair and equitable budget that centers the needs of New York’s most marginalized.
CACF Celebrates Restoration of Historic $30 Million Investment in our Communities in New York State Budget
After months of advocacy by the over 130 AAPI-led and -serving community-based organizations that make up the CACF co-led Equity Budget Coalition, we are proud to share that the historic $30 million of NY State funding to our AAPI communities that our coalition has been pushing for has been restored in this year’s State Budget!
CACF Statement on New Race and Ethnicity Standards from the Office of Management and Budget
On March 28, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its much-anticipated new standards for how the federal government collects data on race and ethnicity. These new standards are historic — as their release marks the first time in 27 years that the U.S. government has changed the way it categorizes people by race and ethnicity.