Addressing Domestic Violence Among Asian American & Asian Immigrant Communities (Webinar Series)

Webinar 3: Community-Based Interventions & Healing

Thursday, June 5, 2025
1- 2:30PM PT

Date & Time: Thursday, June 5, 2025
1- 2:30PM PT
Location: Zoom

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Registration is FREE

About

In this last webinar of the series, we will highlight key community-based programs that support the needs and healing of AAAI children, caregivers, and families impacted by domestic violence (DV), including Asian Women’s Shelter’s (AWS) Multilingual Digital Storytelling Project and Children’s Program based in San Francisco, CA. Drawing from community-based expertise and lived experiences of DV survivors, we will discuss culturally responsive and trauma-informed approaches for engaging AAAI DV survivors in healing, recovery, and advocacy. 

Learning Objectives

As a result of attending this webinar, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe at least two culturally responsive community-based practices and interventions for supporting the needs of AAAI children and families impacted by DV.

  2. Explain at least two strategies to overcome potential barriers to accessing and engaging in treatment for AAAI children and families impacted by domestic violence.

  3. Identify at least two positive outcomes of community-based programs and interventions on the mental health of AAAI children & families impacted by DV.

*Continuing Education: RAMS is approved by the California Psychological Association (CPA) to provide continuing professional education for psychologists. For this webinar, RAMS is offering 1.5 hours of continuing education for psychologists, LMFTs, LCSWs, and LPCCs. RAMS maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.

Moderator:

Cruz Chan, M.A., LMFT, RDT
Clinical Manager, Healing for Asians at Richmond Area Multi-Services, Inc. (RAMS), San Francisco

A Cantonese and Mandarin-speaking clinician, Cruz graduated from California Institute of Integral Studies (San Francisco), with a Masters of Arts in Counseling Psychology with a specialization in Drama Therapy.  In Cruz's new role as Clinical Manager, Cruz will be further developing the RAMS Healing for Asians program which provides trauma informed mental health services to limited English speaking Asian victims of crime. This RAMS program is part of San Francisco’s multi-system, initial answer and collaborative solution to the “Anti-Asian Hate”. Cruz is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist as well as a Registered Drama Therapist. Cruz's background also includes providing mental health services to children, youth, families and adults at RAMS outpatient and school-based programs. Prior to clinical work, Cruz has also participated in many drama performances and was a radio host and producer in Macau. Currently, Cruz is actively receiving training in psychodrama under the guidelines of the American Board of Examiner of Psychodrama, Group Psychotherapy and Sociometry (ABE), and presented in the 2020 North American Drama Therapy Association Conference.

Speakers:

Courtney Cheng
Children’s Advocate

Courtney Cheng has been the Children’s Advocate at Asian Women’s Shelter for three years. Through strengths-based, client-led family engagement, Courtney supports numerous families at the emergency shelter who recently escaped family violence and nurtures a non-judgemental space that empowers families to build strong, healthy parent-child relationships. On her days off, Courtney loves reading, taking care of her plants, and spending quality time with her partner and dog, Sesame.

Orchid Pusey, MA
Executive Director

Orchid Pusey is the Executive Director of Asian Women’s Shelter (AWS), where she has been on staff since 2002. Orchid led AWS’s national training and technical assistance program for ten years, focused on building organizational and community capacities to center marginalized survivors of violence in the effort to end gender-based violence. Orchid loves learning and creating tools to help others learn. With a background in Linguistics, Orchid founded AWS’s 40-Hour Community Interpretation Training Institute (CITI), Multi-Lingual Digital Storytelling Project, and other projects focused on violence prevention and intervention through a multilingual intersectional lens.