Overview:

The Pacific Education Advocacy Research & Learning Institute of New York, Inc. (P.E.A.R.L.), is excited to announce its 4th annual Opportunities & Challenges conference. As a community of scholars, researchers, educators, and practitioners, we strive to reduce health and behavioral health disparities by increasing access to culturally relevant models of care. In light of the continued violence and inequities we see, social justice is central to what we do and why we do it.  We also want to honor the strength and resiliency of the A/AAPI community. 

Stop AAPI Hate reported (8/12/21) tracking over 9,000 Anti-Asian incidents in the US. Multiple factors contribute to these incidents.  While health and structural inequities deepen, racism and xenophobia has proliferated. The US, as a White supremacist state, is undeniable. We see state-sanctioned violence towards Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) and a rise in anti-Asian hate that connects back to a history…