Commission of Asian & Pacific Islander (CAPI) Affairs
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Office of Asian & Pacific Islander Affairs
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HEALTHCARE: Intersectional Stress Study
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Cultural Events & News: CR Independent Film Festival; Women of Excellence Awards; World of Cultures Celebration
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Career Fair: Build My Future
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ECONOMY: Minority Buying Power
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EDUCATION: API School Discipline Study
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- Global Human Rights Reviews
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HEALTHCARE: Heart Disease
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- DHR Human Rights Youth Chapters
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HEALTHCARE: Mental Health
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Applications Now Accepted: IYC & SIYAC
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CAPI - Medicare 101 Education
In partnership with Mary J. Treglia Community House, a nonprofit providing resources and services to area immigrants and refugees, CAPI Commissioner Peggy La convened a Medicare 101 education event in Siouxland for area API elders and caregivers. The event helped to bring a very confusing topic and process into focus. CAPI thanks Lisa & Jimmy Ung of World Financial Group for teaching us the ins & outs of Medicare, and sincere appreciation to our volunteer multi-lingual interpreters who donated their time and energy on a Sunday afternoon for the benefit of API senior citizens.
Please contact the Iowa Office of API Affairs for resources that were provided at this event. Medicare is a federal program administered by the US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) - Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Additional resources may be found at www.medicare.gov
ELDERCARE: Webinar
When: Wed, Apr 10, 2019 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Central Time)
An upcoming webinar hosted by Center for Medicare Advocacy with Medicare Rights Center and Justice in Aging will examine several current issues facing Medicare beneficiaries. Presentations by Center for Medicare Advocacy Associate Director David Lipschutz with special guests Lindsey Copeland, Federal Policy Director of Medicare Rights Center and Justice in Aging Deputy Director Jennifer Goldberg.
REGISTER: http://bit.ly/2KbWqmS
ELDERCARE: New App.
New Medicare “What’s Covered” App
The new “What’s Covered” app lets people with Original Medicare, caregivers and others quickly see whether Medicare covers a specific medical item or service. Consumers can now use their mobile device to more easily get accurate, consistent Original Medicare coverage information in the doctor’s office, the hospital, or anywhere else they use their mobile device. In addition to the “What’s Covered” app, through Blue Button 2.0, the agency is enabling beneficiaries to connect their claims data to applications and tools developed by innovative private-sector companies to help them understand, use, and share their health data.
SOURCE: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
ECONOMY - Minority Buying Power
Selig Center’s Multicultural Economy Report shows minority groups have a combined buying power of $3.9 trillion
The Multicultural Economy Report calculates the consumer buying power—or total income after taxes—for minority markets in the U.S.: African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans.
Asian Americans command an estimated 6.2 percent of the nation’s total buying power, roughly $1 trillion. The 267 percent increase since 2000 makes the Asian market the fastest-growing minority market in the country, with a buying power greater than the gross domestic product of Turkey.
SOURCE: Multicultural Economy Report - Selig Center (University of Georgia)
Related Article: Atlanta Business Chronicle
EDUCATION - School Discipline
Schools lack a clear view of Asian and Pacific Islander discipline disparities
The University of Washington and Lewis & Clark College in Oregon released findings showing that discipline outcomes varied considerably among Asian and Pacific Islander subgroups. Students from Southeast Asian countries, like Vietnam and Cambodia, had suspension and expulsion rates that were 2 to 3 times higher than those from China, Japan and other East Asian countries, according to the study.
SOURCE: Ethnic Discipline Gap: Unseen Dimensions of Racial Disproportionality in School Discipline
Related article: Ed Source
HEALTHCARE - Heart Disease
Filipino, Vietnamese heart disease death risk higher than other Asian-American groups;
Asian-Indian, Filipino, and Vietnamese populations experience the greatest years of life lost from heart attacks and stroke.
Source: American Heart Association
Related Article: UPI
HEALTHCARE - Mental Health
Exploring Challenges in Conducting: E-Mental Health Research Among Asian American Women
Challenges of conducting e-mental health intervention research among Asian American women are explored. A proposed model for addressing these barriers included. Based on an extensive literature review, two main types of barriers to conducting e-mental health intervention research among Asian American women were identified: recruitment barriers and adherence barriers
Source: University of Hawaii
Discussion Paper: API Nursing Journal
HEALTHCARE - Intersectional Stress Study
Empirical research has largely ignored the potential links between immigration-related stress and disability as well as immigration-related stress and health service utilization despite increasing scholarship on the association between acculturative stress and health. This study examines the associations between acculturative stress, disability, and health treatment utilization among Asian and Latin American immigrants in the United States.
Data were from the National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS), a nationally representative survey of Asians and Latinos living in the United States. The analytic sample contained 2653 immigrants.
Study Conclusion: Acculturative stress may be an important yet overlooked correlate of disability among immigrants in the United States. Non-health care services may provide an effective pathway for intervening for these individuals.
SOURCE: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Cultural Events & News
Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival
Film: Do We Belong?
An Indian immigrant in Kansas is shot and killed in a senseless hate crime, leaving his wife to grapple with the question of whether America is truly her home. After this tragic event his widow, Sunayana Dumala, was faced with not only the loss of her husband, but complications that arose with her own immigration status now that he was gone. This film explores these events and the subsequent attempts to find healing. Following the screening, Sunayana along with a panel, including her husband’s co-workers and local diversity consultants, will participate in a discussion about the film and efforts that are being made to address these issues. They will share their viewpoints on immigration, advancing diversity awareness, inclusion, and related educational training in trying to establish better relationships and increase understanding among the many populations that are interacting with each other in the workplace and everyday life.
The film screening and panel discussion is a part of the CRIFF Saturday Afternoon Session and included as part of a full-event pass that takes place on Saturday, April 13 at 2:30 p.m. More details at https://www.crifm.org/
35th Annual Women of Excellence
Hong Cuc Nguyen of Sioux City was awarded The Marilyn Murphy Lifetime Achievement at the 35th annual "Women of Excellence" ceremony hosted by Women Aware, a nonprofit that honors women working to improve the community.
SOURCE: KMEG 14 News
World of Cultures Celebration - Des Moines Public Schools
Construction Trades Career Fair
for High School Youth
Sponsors include Future Ready Iowa, Iowa Department of Education, Iowa Workforce Development, National Association of Home Builders and Skilled Labor Funds. A similar event was held in Missouri - watch the video here.
"Build My Future" seeks to raise awareness of career and apprenticeship opportunities in the construction trades among high-school youth. Event time: 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM with lunch provided. Organizers ask that all registration forms be submitted no later than April 12.
IOWA FLOODING RESOURCES
Global Human Rights Reviews
Countries have different priorities when they review each other’s human rights records
Under a peer-to-peer evaluation process established in the late 2000s, every member state in the United Nations faces a periodic review of its human rights record by countries on the UN Human Rights Council. But the issues raised in these reviews can vary substantially depending on which countries are doing the reviewing, according to a Pew Research Center analysis.
SOURCE: PEW Research Center
DHR HUMAN RIGHTS YOUTH CHAPTERS
DHR YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS
Iowa Youth Congress & State of Iowa Youth Advisory Council
We are now accepting applications
 
For more information regarding IYC and SIYAC or the application process, contact Claire Yocom at Claire.Yocom@iowa.gov or 515-725-2836, or go to https://humanrights.iowa.gov/cas/siyac
The Iowa Department of Human Rights offers more opportunities for youth engagement. For more information, please visit website https://humanrights.iowa.gov/
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