Thanks to Pastor Jin Lee (of Mustard Seed Generation and Catalyst Coalition) for joining DJ Chuang for this lively Erasing Shame conversation; and, hosting a lunch meeting in Atlanta on Monday 8/28 for AAPI church leaders, mental health professionals, nonprofit leaders, people with lived experiences, and YOU! Yes, there’s such a thing as a free lunch! Please RSVP at tinyurl.com/aapi828.
Get Out the Prayer: please pray with us for the grant inquiry we’ve submitted for a 3-year project to launch national and local partnerships for AAPI churches, mental health professionals, researchers, and nonprofits.
Show Notes
Subscribe to email updates from CAMH (Christian Asian Mental Health) at https://camh.substack.com
‘’The evidence summarised in this report shows that People with Lived Experience (PWLE) are the key change agents for stigma reduction’’ from “The Lancet Commission on ending stigma and discrimination in mental health” (2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01470-2
“Cross-national comparisons of increasing suicidal mortality rates for Koreans in the Republic of Korea and Korean Americans in the USA, 2003–2012” in Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. (2018) https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS2045796016000792
61% of the suicides in the world occur in Asia, cf. “Suicide and mental disorders in Asia” in International Review of Psychiatry (2005) https://doi.org/10.1080/09540260500074735
New book by Dr. Anita Phillips – The Garden Within: Where the War with Your Emotions Ends and Your Most Powerful Life Begins
Community of Asian American Therapists in Chicagoland (CAATCH) www.caatch.info
Asian American Christian Network of Atlanta (AACNA) https://www.facebook.com/groups/aacna/