DEI Resources

Afghan Refugee Assistance

• Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service is asking for volunteers to help refugees upon arrival with airport pickups, meal assistance, mentorship, tutoring and more. 

• How One Nonprofit Is Attempting to Help LGBTQ Refugees Fleeing Afghanistan

• Pashto and Dari interpreters are needed to assist Afghans arriving for resettlement at Dulles International Airport in Virginia. Please email: hdmrc@fairfaxcounty.gov with subject line “Afghan Interpreters” 

• Women for Women International helps women survivors of war and conflict rebuild their lives by providing training programs and support.

• The Afghan-American Women’s Association is focused on newly arrived Afghan families who are desperately in need of emotional support from the community, helpful guidance, and referral services. 

• The International Rescue Committee has been working in Afghanistan since 1988 delivering urgent humanitarian aid. IRC also offers volunteer options.

   

General antiracism resources:

• List of Anti-Racism Resources

• Additional List of Anti-Racism Resources

• Teaching Tolerance – Black Lives Matter

• Talking About Race – NMAAH

• Woke Kindergarten

• Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup

• Talking About Race and Privilege book list

• George Floyd. Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. What do we tell our children?

• How to Teach Kids About What’s Happening in Ferguson

• How do I make sure I’m not raising the next Amy Cooper?

• Anti-Racism Resources

• Building Community Power and Resisting Police Violence – a resource list

• 75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice

Stop AAPI Hate

Learn more about what is happening and why

• [Read] "America’s long history of scapegoating its Asian citizens" (National Geographic)

• [Read] Reports and data on AAPI violence (Stop AAPI Hate)

• [Read] "The 'Model Minority' Myth" (NPR)

• [Watch] “Asian Americans” documentary (PBS)

• [Watch/Teach-In] Sign up for the Asian Pacific Public Health Network’s Zoom teach-in on the history of the API community and State Sanctioned Violence next week.

Talk to your children about racism

• How to Talk to Children about Difficult News

• Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup

Report and/or interrupt racism when you see it

• Report anti-Asian hate incidents at StopAAPIHate.org

• Attend a bystander intervention training (Hollaback | Asian Americans Advancing Justice)