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Our Programs
The Education and Outreach team provides continuous outreach to Asian/Asian American communities across the state of Massachusetts and throughout New England with a focus on Greater Boston and Greater Lowell. Our staff distributes information about domestic violence, helpline information, and other necessary resources at community events, cultural festivals, community centers, places of worship, local restaurants, super-markets, and Asian/Asian American owned businesses to ensure that domestic violence awareness can be accessed where members of the Asian/Asian American community gather.
In addition to distributing materials about domestic violence, ATASK staff often provide short presentations on ATASK services and information to staff of community-based organizations, health care providers, immigrant-serving organizations, law enforcement, faith-based organizations, and community centers to ensure Asian/Asian American and immigrant communities are able to access domestic violence assistance through their perspective service organizations.
For short presentations about ATASK, or domestic violence information and materials in Khmer (Cambodian), Vietnamese, Chinese, Hindi, Korean and Japanese, please contact:
Dawn Sauma
Co-Executive Director
(617) 338-2350 x245
The Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence provides organizations, faith-based groups, universities, law enforcement, teachers, dentists, health care professionals, and more. Education and Outreach staff are available to provide consultations and trainings with respect to the provision of culturally responsive services in the field of domestic violence prevention.
For more information about Education and Training, please contact:
Dawn Sauma
Co-Executive Director
(617) 338-2350 x245
Community Engagement Project
The goal of the Community Engagement Project of the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence (ATASK) is to prevent domestic violence through education, policy change, community organizing, and awareness-raising about family violence, intimate partner violence, and dating violence.
ATASK seeks to engage our communities in preventing domestic violence by working with systems, providers, community members and families. We hope to alter the current desensitization to violence and oppression in our communities. We believe that change cannot come from educating one community or group of people. We must engage everyone.
The Community Engagement Project provides the following services:
- Conducts domestic violence and cultural competency training to Asian/Asian American, non-Asian communities and professionals working with victims of violence and trauma
- Hosts, sponsors, and facilitates outreach events to create and raise awareness of domestic violence in our communities
- Advocates with policymakers for the needs of Asian families affected by domestic violence
