Community Organizing

Supporting Survivors. Cultivating Healing. Building Accountable Communities.

We know that when survivors face abuse, they first turn to their close networks. Through Community Organizing, we train these networks to prevent and respond to violence through support, leadership and skill building programs that are language and culture specific. This creates supportive environments for all survivors in their daily lives - in their homes, at their places of worship, in their schools, their workplace, and neighborhoods.

Interested in API Chaya’s Community Organizing programs? Fill out our participant interest form and our lead program staff will follow up with you!

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Our Community Organizing Programs

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    Natural Helpers Program

    With the long-term vision of creating a world that better supports survivors, our Natural Helper program is a leadership development and education program that supports community members in learning about human trafficking, domestic and sexual violence, the societal forces that create conditions for violence, as well as in skill building around how to respond to harm, injustice, and how to support survivors.

    To learn more, email Pacheena at pacheena@apichaya.org

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    Disability Justice Program

    Launched in 2015, the Disability Justice Program (formerly known as Disability Liberation Project) seeks to illuminate the brilliance of d/Deaf and disabled people as they break isolation and navigate tensions within gender-based violence and disability in their community.

    To learn more, email Jessie at jessie@apichaya.org

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    RISE!

    RISE aims to center the experiences of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) survivors of sexual assault and abuse and is grounded in the healing power of art for the purpose of healing and transformation.

    To learn more, email Angeli at angeli@apichaya.org

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    Community Solutions

    Community Solutions is a pilot program which offers paid skill building, mentorship, and a safer place for reflection and growth for people interested in creating options outside of the criminal legal system to respond to sexual harm.

    To learn more, email DeAnn at deann@apichaya.org

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    Peaceful Families Taskforce (PFT)

    The Peaceful Families Taskforce (PFT) aims to raise awareness of gender-based violence and its prevention within faith-based communities, and to support community members who may be experiencing harm.

    To learn more, email Neelam at neelam@apichaya.org

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    Queer Network Program (QNP)

    Queer Network Program aims to nurture and empower Queer and Trans Survivors of Color and the broader intergenerational QTBIPOC communities using storytelling, collective learning and healing, and caring labor to turn towards each other.

    To learn more, email LeMing at leming@apichaya.org

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    This program is currently undergoing changes! We will update this program description soon.

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    Youth Organizing (paused)

    This program is currently undergoing changes! We will update this program description soon.