Organization 2: NAPAWF

While Stop AAPI Hate targets more of a general, large group of people, NAPAWF mainly focuses on women and girls. The National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, also known as NAPAWF, is the only organization that supports and encourages AAPI women and girls to influence critical decisions that can impact and affect our lives, our families, our communities, and our society.

According to the NAPAWF website, the organization "works to build a movement for social, political, and structural change for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women and girls." Additionally, NAPAWF focuses on three areas - reproductive health and rights, economic justice, and immigrant rights and racial justice - to ensure the beliefs, opinions, and values of AAPI women and girls are "seen, heard, and reflected in policy and structural change at the local, state, and federal levels."

Because NAPAWF is organization with unique missions, below is in a flyer with several goals they hold.

While there isn't a chapter in California, there are other ways to take action with the support and guidance from NAPAWF. For example, you can send a message to your members of Congress urging them to support the HEAL act. What even is the HEAL act? The HEAL act stands for the Health Equity and Access under the Law.

According to NAPAWF's HEAL Fact Sheet, HEAL can impact immigrant families by "restoring enrollment to full-benefit Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to all federally authorized immigrants who are otherwise eligible, by removing the unjustifiable exclusion of undocumented immigrants from accessing health insurance coverage on the Affordable Care Act's Health Insurance Exchanges, and by ensuring access to public and affordable health coverage for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients."

Why should you support HEAL? There are a myriad of reasons for why you should support HEAL. For starters, health shouldn't depend on immigration status nor should vaccines and health opportunities be discriminated based on race, ethnicity, or national origin.

For more information about HEAL, please visit https://www.napawf.org/assets/download/heal/HEAL-Fact-Sheet-2021.pdf

For more information about the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, please visit https://www.napawf.org/