Resources
Social Services
Our New Americans Program celebrates the diverse cultures of Queens residents and helps newcomers understand and adjust to life in the United States.
Resources and how to report hate incidents.
A toolkit for addressing anti-Asian bias, discrimination, and hate.
Stop Anti-Asian Violence: A Conversation about Discrimination towards the AAPI Community
Watch this 2021 virtual conversation hosted by Queens Public Library.
Right To Be (formally Hollaback)
A key organization that creates Bystander Intervention Trainings to teach people how to stop harassment.
Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs: Resources for Immigrant New Yorkers
This Resource Guide is available in over 50 languages and can be translated as needed by the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs.
Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote)
APIAVote is the nation’s leading nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to engaging, educating, and empowering Asian American and Pacific Islander communities to strengthen and sustain a culture of civic engagement.
Asian American Federation (AAF)
With a mission centered on amplifying the influence and enhancing the well-being of the pan-Asian American community, AAF is committed to driving change through research, policy advocacy, public awareness, and support for nonprofits.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC)
AAJC is an affiliation of five organizations advocating for the civil and human rights of Asian Americans. Since 1991, Asian Americans Advancing Justice has fought for Asian Americans in the national conversations that determine policies that shape their lives.
Through community development, AAFE advances racial, social, and economic justice for Asian Americans and other systemically disadvantaged communities.
Asian Pride Project celebrates the journeys, triumphs, and struggles of LGBTQ individuals and their Asian and Pacific Islander families and communities, by using the arts — film, video, photography, and the written word — as a medium for social justice and advocacy in the LGBTQ realm.
Chinese American Planning Council
CPC’s mission is to promote the social and economic empowerment of Chinese American, immigrant, and low-income communities.
Chinese Community Center of Flushing
CCCF is a grassroots community organization dedicated to promoting, inspiring, and enriching the lives of Chinese children, adults, and families through programs addressing their social, spiritual, and educational needs.
A volunteer organization that helps deliver care packages and meals to Asian elders.
Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York
This organization serves as a bridge for Korean immigrants and the wider Asian community to fully integrate into society and overcome any economic, health, and linguistic barriers.
MinKwon Center for Community Action
The MinKwon Center for Community Action empowers the Korean American community and works with the wider Asian Pacific American and immigrant communities to achieve economic and social justice for all.
New York Tibetan Service Center
NYTSC is a New York-based nonprofit organization dedicated to the social and economic mobility and academic success of NYC immigrants primarily from Tibetan, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian communities.
South Asian Council for Social Services
This organization empowers underserved South Asians and other immigrants and integrates them into the civic and economic life of New York.
SAYA aims to foster a strong sense of belonging in youth and provide them with tools to thrive academically, professionally, and personally.
Healthcare & Mental Health
The AA & NH/PI Web Hub offers a variety of demographic and research information, resources, and tools to support Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander community health research and knowledge sharing.
Apicha Community Health Center
Apicha Community Health Center is a federally qualified health center based in New York City that provides comprehensive primary care, preventive health services, mental health, and supportive services to Asians, Pacific Islanders, and other people of color. They also specialize in serving individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, as well as people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS.
Asian American and Pacific Islander Mental Health Resources
This list of resources is provided by The Mental Health Coalition.
Asian Mental Health Collective
AMHC aspires to make mental health easily available, approachable, and accessible to Asian communities worldwide.
Bridges connects Asian, Pacific Islander, and South Asian Americans with culturally-affirming therapy and mental health care.
Charles B. Wang Community Health Center
The Charles B. Wang Community Health Center is a nonprofit and federally qualified health center offering comprehensive primary care services in Manhattan and Queens, with a focus on the Asian American community.
Chinese-American Family Alliance for Mental Health
CAFAMH aims to promote self-empowerment and mutual support among Chinese-American caregivers of mentally ill individuals. They provide education about and raise community awareness of mental illness, and strive to improve the quality of services necessary for mental health patients, family members, and caregivers.
National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association (NAAPIMHA)
NAAPIMHA is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote and redefine the mental health and well-being of the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander individuals and communities in the United States through training, programs, policy, and advocacy, centering those with lived experience.
New York Coalition for Asian American Mental Health (NYCAAMH)
NYCAAMH strives to improve the quality of mental health care services in Asian American communities throughout the New York metropolitan area.
Arts and Culture
The Amp (Asian American Arts Alliance)
The Amp is an online magazine from the Asian American Arts Alliance that celebrates the vibrant, multifaceted, and rich AAPI cultural community in NYC and beyond.
The Asian American Book Club strives to connect Asian American readers and communities to books and stories that reflect their world and make them feel seen and heard.
Asian American Writers' Workshop
AAWW is devoted to creating, publishing, developing and disseminating creative writing by Asian Americans, and to providing an alternative literary arts space at the intersection of migration, race, and social justice.
The Blasian March is a solidarity action between Black/African, Asian, and mixed Blasian communities, abolishing boundaries through joy, art, culture, and education.
CTW's mission is to preserve and promote traditional Chinese performing arts (including opera, shadow theatre, puppetry, dance, and music) and foster understanding and appreciation of Chinese culture in audiences, artists, students, scholars, and educators around the globe.
Ernest Concepcion is a Filipino painter based in Manila, Philippines. Ernest combines the motif of classical landscape with contemporary caricatures and representations that take one into the framework of warfare while uncovering the effects of a larger 20th-Century, Postwar existence.
Flushing Town Hall presents multi-disciplinary global arts that engage and educate the communities of Queens and New York City in order to foster mutual appreciation.
GAPIMNY is an all-volunteer, membership-based community organization with the mission to empower queer and trans Asian Pacific Islanders to create positive change. They provide a range of political, social, educational, and cultural programming and work in coalition with other community organizations to educate and promote dialogue on issues of race, sexuality, gender, and health.
Located in downtown Flushing, Glow Cultural Center is a community-focused organization that offers easily accessible cultural, educational, and social programming for the public. With year-round programming tailored to the Chinese community, presented in both Mandarin and English, GCC focuses on fostering positive cultural exchange and addressing health disparities experienced by Asian Americans.
The India Center is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization launched in 2003 to promote Traditional Indian Arts.
Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL)
The Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning is a multidisciplinary arts center based in Southeast Queens, devoted to offering quality visual and performing arts and providing accessible education programs to encourage participation in the arts.
Kinding Sindaw is an NYC-based nonprofit dance theater company whose mission is to assert, reclaim, preserve, and re-create the dance, music, martial arts, storytelling, legends, myths, and unwritten history of the Philippines.
Korean Cultural Center New York
KCCNY supports Korea-U.S. relations and promotes Korean culture in New York City.
Korean Traditional Music and Dance Center of New York
KTMDC specializes in teaching and performing Korean traditional music and dance, to preserve Korea's rich and vibrant culture and share it with Korean Americans and other members of our community.
MOCA celebrates the living history of the Chinese experience in America by preserving and presenting the 200-year history, heritage, culture, and diverse experiences of American communities of Chinese descent.
Q-Wave is a grassroots organization of LBTQ women, trans men, and gender non-conforming/non-binary/trans folks of Asian and Pacific Islander descent. They seek to build a strong and belonging community, create awareness around social justice issues, increase queer Asian visibility, and uplift marginalized voices through their programming.
Operating in Queens, Sadhanalaya School of Dance is an institute for performing, teaching, and promoting Kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam classical dance forms and South Indian folk dance.
Serving the desi queer community of New York City, SALGA NYC offers community and safe spaces for all South Asian queer and trans people.
Third State Books is an independent publishing house focused on bringing Asian American and Pacific Islander voices, stories, and issues to audiences that cherish them.
TranscendAsianPride Collective
TranscendAsianPride Collective aims to create a welcoming space for the gender expansive Asian community.
