Smoke-free Homes Campaign
Five Asian American Communities Come Together
For Smoke-free Homes Campaign
The Asian and Pacific Islanders Smoke-free Homes Campaign is a collaboration of five Asian community groups: Hmong, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Lao and Asian Indian to help ensure that through our campaign, API communities, stakeholders and the general public become more educated about the harms of tobacco use and secondhand smoke as well as showing their support for local/state tobacco efforts by pledging for a smoke-free home.
As part of the Asian community, we realize that work needs to be done in our own perspective communities in order to bridge the gap of disparities that exits in each group to do action intervention. This project will focus on culturally and linguistically relevant education and advocacy strategies to raise awareness about tobacco harms and second-hand smoke and to encourage and secure private policies, like smoke-free homes within the Asian community and the general public. In the process of creating tobacco-free spaces, relationships that were built will allow our respective Asian communities to actively participate as part of a larger whole, and to contribute our perspective, passion, and commitment to this cause in order to build collaborations and power in numbers to make progressive change.
To show our support for the Minnesota Freedom to Breathe Act and other local policies to protect the general public from secondhand smoke, the API Smoke-free Homes Project and leaderships will be attending cultural community events to address health related issues and concerns caused by tobacco use and smoking. Educational materials developed from this project will be distributed to API families to profile the danger and harmful effect of smoking, build leadership critical to policy advocacy on behalf of API communities, and encouraging and securing pledges from ethnic communities in support of efforts around secondhand smoke.
Asian and Pacific Islanders Smoke-free Homes Campaign is an initiative that is funded by Clearway MinnesotaSM and is an outgrowth of the Leadership and Advocacy Institute to Advance Minnesota’s Parity for Priority Populations (LAAMPP). The initiative was facilitated by Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment, Advocacy and Leadership (APPEAL) - a national organization based in Oakland, California.
Contact Information: Call for further information or how you can PLEDGE TODAY!
API Smoke-free Homes ProjectLead Agency, Vietnamese Social Services
1159 University Avenue #100
St. Paul, MN 55104
Vietnamese: Dung 651-641-7270
Hmong: Ayer 651-221-0069
Asian Indian: Raj 763-234-3491
Laotian: Chongchith 612-374-4967
Cambodian: Sinuon 651-336-6041
API Smoke-Free Homes Project is an initiative funded by ClearWay Minnesota and is under the fiscal agency of the Vietnamese Social Services of Minnesota. Its vision is to ensure that through Smoke-free Homes, API families become more educated about tobacco harms and secondhand smoke as well as support for local/state policies for the public community.
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