All Californians should access necessary health care regardless of their immigration status or where they were born.
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SEARAC Unites With California Partners to Celebrate Our Right to Heal
SEARAC joined our California-based advocacy and health services partners to host the third annual “The Right to Heal: Centering Mental Health Multi-Racial Equity in California.”
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“Everyday I woke up crying because I gave birth to him but couldn’t do anything about his medical bills. I cried every time I looked at the medical bills because I couldn’t afford them. I didn’t even want to take my son into the hospital if it was going to be that expensive.”
as featured in our video “A Mother’s Love”
“Before the Medicaid expansion, I was without health insurance for a long time and was only able to access the free health clinics in the East Bay to address this recurring stomach issue that I had. I would be in immense pain. With the Medicaid expansion, I have been able to see a doctor and receive regular check-ups regarding my illness. I know that having Medi-Cal has prolonged my lifespan.”
Southeast Asian Americans Speak Out to Protect the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid Expansion report
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This toolkit provides a standardized, evidence-based, and field-tested set of facts and messaging resources for AAPI community organizers and advocates and will be updated as new data becomes available.
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Have you already taken action to ensure AANHPI students are seen and supported?
SEARAC, NCAPA, and more than 50 organizations are calling on Congress to cosponsor the All Students Count Act. The bill would provide more detailed education data to help schools better understand student outcomes and direct resources where they are needed most.
Join us in urging your representative and senators to act. Take action at the link in our bio.
#AllStudentsCount #AANHPI #EducationEquity #DataEquity #BackToSchool
Aug 28
SEARAC and AAPI Data’s latest fact sheet, Southeast Asian American Deportations: Trends and Policy Implications, makes one thing clear: we must act now to keep our families together.
Southeast Asian American communities are being targeted at an alarming rate, with 42% of ALL Southeast Asian deportations since 1998 happening in just the last two fiscal years, including a more than 20x increase in deportations of our elders. People who have called the United States home for decades, many since childhood, are being sent to countries they no longer have connection to. We need policy solutions that ensure dignity for our communities and respect for human life. Read the fact sheet and our policy recommendations at the link in our bio or bit.ly/seadeportationtrends2026
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Aug 27
As students head back to school, AANHPI students deserve to be seen and supported.
SEARAC, NCAPA, and more than 50 organizations are calling on Congress to cosponsor the All Students Count Act. The bill would provide more detailed education data to help schools better understand student outcomes and direct resources where they are needed most.
Join us in urging your representative and senators to act. Take action at the link in our bio.
#AllStudentsCount #AANHPI #EducationEquity #DataEquity #BackToSchool
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SEARAC`s Rising Up report confirms what our communities have known all along: when Southeast Asian American students have access to culturally relevant curricula, heritage language learning, mental health supports, and educators who see them, they thrive.
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Read SEARAC`s report and the full story from @asamnews at the link in our bio!
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