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Act To Change: An Awareness Campaign to Address Bullying

Every seven minutes, there is an occurrence of bullying. Every day, youth of all ages experience bullying in schools across the country. Bullying may inflict distress on the targeted youth including physical, psychological, social or educational harm. Youth are at a higher risk of being bullied if they are socially isolated, if they have a disability, if they are LGBTQI or if they are questioning their sexual identity.

For Asian Pacific American youth, this problem is often compounded by cultural, religious, and linguistic barriers that can make it harder for youth to seek and receive help. Recognizing the importance of keeping a dialogue around this topic, last month, AALEAD youth in the DC Middle & High School Program attended the #ActToChange APAHM Celebration event to talk about how we can fight bullying in our community at the Google DC office. 

As we go on, we remember

By Ha Nguyen, Development and Communications Associate Photos courtesy of Ban Tran and Ha Nguyen   This past Saturday, AALEADers gathered together at the 2nd annual AALEAD Day in Silver Spring Civic Building to recognize and celebrate the achievements of our youth in 5th, 8th, and 12th Grade as they get ready to transition to their […]

Stress Less Week at Poe Middle School

By Pallavi Rudraraju, VA Middle School Program Coordinator Photos courtesy of Ha Nguyen You may not know it, but May, in addition to being APAHM – Asian Pacific American Heritage Month – is also Mental Health Awareness Month. Thanks to the support of Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board, for the first two weeks of May, Poe Middle […]

It Takes a Circus To Raise a Child

By: Vi Bui, Youth Mentoring & Volunteer Programs Coordinator Photos courtesy of AALEAD Staff After a week of rainstorms around DC, the Mentoring Programs end of the year barbecue scheduled for this past Saturday had to be canceled. To our luck, we had the chance through charity Tickets For Kids to attend Cirque du Soleil Luzia at […]