Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment, Advocacy and Leadership

PROMISE Network Webinar Highlights Strategies for Promoting Smoke-free Multiunit Housing Policies in Diverse Communities

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:00:00 GMT

To share strategies that community-based organizations have used to engage diverse communities in tobacco control, on March 21, 2013 the APPEAL PROMISE Network hosted a webinar on promoting smoke-free multiunit housing policies with guest speakers Christine Araquel from the People’s Community Organization for Reform and Empowerment (People’s CORE) in Los Angeles, California and Ekta Prakash from CAPI USA in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Show the Impact of Tobacco on Diverse Communities!

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:00:00 GMT

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the second round of their tobacco education campaign last week, Tips from Former Smokers (Tips). The campaign aims to continue raising awareness of the negative health effects caused by smoking, encourage smokers to quit, and encourage nonsmokers to protect themselves and their families from exposure to secondhand smoke through advertisements, public service announcments, and social media outreach. With a national spotlight on tobacco education, now is a critical time for APPEAL and our network members to help in delivering key information and resources to our Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities.

APPEAL Challenges Youth to Promote Health with Video Contest and Activity Challenge

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:00:00 GMT

In late February, APPEAL launched “Health Starts…Where We Live, Learn, Work, and Play,” a video contest and activity challenge for youth and young adults. The contest and activity challenge is part of our national effort to promote tobacco-free living, healthy eating, and active living (HEAL) in Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) communities.

APPEAL Welcomes New Staff to the Team

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 07:00:00 GMT

APPEAL is pleased to welcome new staff to the team.

CDC Continues National Tobacco Education Campaign with a Special Effort to Target Asian American Smokers

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 07:00:00 GMT

Oakland, CA - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is making a special effort to reach out to Asian American smokers as part of their “Tips from Former Smokers” campaign. The CDC will place ads that include a “tip” to encourage smokers to call the Asian Smokers’ Quitline in various Asian-language newspapers across the country. The Asian Smokers’ Quitline is a free nationwide program offering a variety of services: self-help materials, a referral list of other cessation programs, one-on-one counseling over the phone, and a free two-week starter kit of nicotine patches. In-language services are available to those who speak Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese languages.

New "Gangnam" Cigarette Brand Markets a Deadly Product to Consumers, Youth

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:00:00 GMT

OAKLAND, CA - Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment, Advocacy and Leadership (APPEAL) calls upon Canadian Tobacco and Global, Inc. (CT&G) to end its marketing of a new brand of cigarettes, named "Gangnam" after the upscale district in South Korea, which benefits from the popularity of the similarly-named song by famous South Korean rapper Psy.

Creating Resources for a Healthy Eating and Active Living Movement for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:00:00 GMT

Recent years have seen widespread attention in the mainstream press and efforts in the public health sector to address the obesity epidemic and its critical relationships to food and physical activity. Despite this, the effects of obesity in Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) communities are rarely, if ever, included in the larger narrative. The common myth that obesity is not a problem impacting the health and well-being of the AA and NHPI community creates barriers, making it more difficult for our communities to effectively address the issue, such as limited data collection and knowledge of the breadth of the disease burdens related to food and physical activity among AAs and NHPIs.

LAAMPP Alumni Continue to Impact Tobacco Control Policy Change in Minnesota

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 08:00:00 GMT

Though the Leadership and Advocacy Institute to Advance Minnesota's Parity for Priority Populations (LAAMPP Institute) runs for 18 months, LAAMPP alumni draw upon skills and connections gained through their participation in their ongoing work serving marginalized communities through tobacco control. With support from ClearWay MinnesotaSM, Vicki Sanders (a current LAAMPP consultant) organized a January 10 quarterly meeting for former alumni and other members of the LAAMPP community to network and to learn from a dynamic speech by political analyst Todd Rapp from the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota.

APPEAL kicks-off 2013 video contest & activity challenge

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:00:00 GMT

Oakland, CA – The Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment, Advocacy and Leadership (APPEAL) is excited to announce the launch of a video contest and activity challenge for youths and young adults entitled “Health Starts…Where We Live, Learn, Work, and Play.” This contest and challenge is part of our national effort to promote tobacco-free living, healthy eating, and active living in Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) communities.

Tobacco Control State Highlights Report Shows Limitations in Existing Data and Reporting on AA and NHPIs

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 08:00:00 GMT

APPEAL commends the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for its new report, released January 25, which shows how each of the 50 states and DC is doing in implementing proven strategies that reduce tobacco use and reports state-specific data on prevalence rates by race/ethnicity. The CDC’s Tobacco Control State Highlights 2012 shows an effort to report data on Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) communities. However, what the report reveals is that there continue to be severe limitations in data on Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders and Asian Americans.