NEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER
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Mission Statement
NMAFC provides culturally sensitive programs and services creating a Pan-Asian community that advocates for and supports itself.
About This Cause
We are a community-based organization rooted in social justice working to advance the visibility, rights, and equitable access to services of Asian, Pacific Islander, and Native Hawaiian (APINH) families across the state. Through a root-cause analysis centered on anti-racism, NMAFC has intentionally invested in survivor-led and centered direct social services, prevention programming and civic engagement work, nurtured spaces for youth and family leadership development, and sought to ground its services in the traditional modalities of healing through practices that have been with our families across generations. NMAFC was founded in 2006 by a circle of Asian women who came together to address the lack of culturally and linguistically tailored services for the state's Pan-Asian community. Having started by providing counseling and case management services in a house, NMAFC has now grown to be the largest and most comprehensive social service provider in the state of New Mexico tailoring its services to the APINH population. Our core values are founded on the belief that the solutions and answers we need lie within our communities' deep wisdom and experiences, and that our organizational leadership, as well as our programs and services, should reflect this. All programs are led by those most impacted and are designed in conjunction with our women and families, who help to identify needs within NM. The communities we tailor our services to include APINH individuals and families who are: • Immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, or other newcomers; • Survivors of gender-based violence and other crimes; • Speakers of APINH languages or speak English less than “very well;” and • Households of low to extremely low-income levels Development and implementation of all programs and services directly reflect and center the culturally-specific needs of the community. NMAFC maintains that all staff are directly connected to the communities impacted. Although our services are tailored to the APINH population, they are open to anyone. All of our services and programs offered in-house are provided free of charge and available in multiple APINH languages. We utilize telephonic interpretation and local community Language Access Liaisons (LALs) for languages not spoken in-house. Our ongoing programs and social services include: • Comprehensive, in-language case management (support for survivors, assistance with navigation of complex US systems, assistance with applications for public benefits, warm referrals); • Individual and family counseling for survivors and problem gamblers; • Legal consultation, representation, and aid for survivors; • Language-based peer support groups for survivors to gather, build community, discuss the impact of violence, and practice healing; • Somatic and traditional healing circles for survivors; • Prevention programming for APINH women and non-binary youth; • Basic translation and interpretation services; • Financial literacy and other community educational workshops; • Multigenerational leadership, navigation, and support programs for parents and child caregivers; • Annual youth storytelling program: "True New Mexico: Young Black & AAPINH New Mexicans looking to Discuss and Dismantle the Tri-Cultural Myth;” • Year-round civic engagement efforts including GOTV, in-language voter education workshops, and voter registration and access assistance; • Policy and advocacy work, particularly as it relates to language justice, investment in early childhood education, and services for survivors; and • Cross-racial movement building We believe that all children and families deserve equitable access to resources and opportunities in order to thrive.