Here is a comprehensive report of CAPAA Commissioners’ activities between the months of March and June 2017:
Commissioner Dickinson
| Activity | Date | Issues & Recommendations |
| Judicial Reception: Bridging Justice | 9/17/2017 | Judges of Color Working between State Judges, Tribal Judges and the Community to act as a bridge to historically marginalized communities in the justice system. |
| National Asian Pacific American Bar Association | 11/1/2017-11/6/2017 | Continue to address discrimination against API and other communities. |
| Call to Action, meeting with Minami Tamaki Yamauchi Kwok & Lee Foundation | 11/3/2017 | Go to StopRepeatingHistory.org to sign on to Call to Action to support principles of fairness and opportunity for all, due process, and equal justice under the law (or strh.co) |
| Meeting at Supreme Court of US | 11/3/2017 | Event at US Supreme Court with Justice Sotomayor and API Judges and justices in attendance. Honoring API judges and justices for their service. |
Commissioner Dinh
| Activity | Date | Issues & Recommendations |
| SMART on Juvenile Justice Taskforce | 9/22/2017 | Follow up with future meeting |
| Meeting with community member | 10/8/2017 | Will reach out to other Southeast Asian mental health therapists to discuss mental health concerns in the community. |
| Community Meeting on Children with Autism | 10/24/2017 | This group will meet regularly to identify strategies to help Vietnamese families with children who have autism. |
| Join Summit on Gang Prevention and Intervention | 11/1/2017 | There will be more discussion on how government and community agencies can support this work. |
Commissioner Finau
| Activity | Date | Issues & Recommendations |
| UPRISE Conference | 10/14/2017 | Workshop for parents, presenting data on statewide chronic absenteeism on PI students and seeing the comparisons with various ethnic groups and school districts. |
| Meeting with UW Dr. Holly Barker | 10/19/2017 | Assist Dr. Barker with writing a grant for the Burke Museum to purchase compactor to properly store Tongan mats and artifacts making them easily accessible for display and education for students and community. |
Commissioner Gaur
| Activity | Date | Issues & Recommendations |
| Eastside Candidates forum | 10/5/2017 |
Propagate the importance to vote |
| AAPI National Week of Action | 10/9/2017 | Immigration issues are our struggle for a long time to come. We all need to work with our own communities to educate. |
| Volunteer at Ronald McDonald house | 10/22/2017 | Immigration issues need to be addressed and educated on for our communities. |
Commissioner Guerrero
| Activity | Date | Issues & Recommendations |
| The Filipino American Heritage Month event | 10/21/2017 |
The Filipino Association in SW WA would like to partner up more with CAPAA to do more education and awareness of the Filipino cultures in WA. |
Commissioner Gurung
| Activity | Date | Issues & Recommendations |
| AAPI National Week of Action on Immigration | 11/9/2017 | To stand for the rights of all immigrants and refugees, DACA recipients, for the 2017 Dream |
| Nepali Dashai Festival | 11/7/2017 | Need to preserve our culture and need to have culture/community center. |
| King County Behavioral Health Legislature Forum | 11/8/2017 | To stabilize behavioral health treatment to improve access and quality in the community. Create community-based capacity to prevent and/or shorten hospitalization. Expand medication-assisted treatment via low-babuprenorphine access. |
| Nepali Literature | 11/12/2017 | They will continue, with activities. |
Commissioner Nguyen
| Activity | Date | Issues & Recommendations |
| Washington State Immigrant Network | 10/23/2017 | Meeting to organize a network/resource group for immigrants currently working for Washington State government. |
| APIC Community Center Planning | 10/8/2017 | Meeting to plan for a multi-cultural center in Thurston County |
| Meeting regarding Tommy Le ADR | 11/9/2017 | Planning meeting for possible meeting with Sheriff’s Office and police union regarding the Tommy Le shooting. |
Commissioner Rojo
N/A
Commissioner Sisavatdy
| Activity | Date | Issues & Recommendations |
| AA& PI Health Summit | 8/9/2017 |
This was the first initial meeting with Dr. Sisombouth as we are the co-charis of this summit. |
| City of Des Moines summer concert at the park | 8/9/2017 | We plan to have quarterly meetings. |
| Asian Pacific Director’s Coalition: Summertime Social | 8/27/2017 | More social opportunities is needed o bring in next generation of APA advocates. |
| SEAeD Coalition: Beyond the Numbers | 8/25/2017 | Discussions and reporting on data disaggregation and the work of SEAeD. |
| Coffee with Tracie Friedman – Seattle Housing Authority and Lao Community Member | 8/31/2017 | Touching in with Lao Community Service Center, Pom Foundation, requesting support for SEA & PI Health Summit |
| SEA & PI Health Summit Meeting | 8/31/2017 | First initial meeting for SEA & PI Health Summit |
| UPRISE Meeting | 9/24/2017 | UPRISE Committee inquired about $500 CAPAA grant they requested. |
| Meeting w/ Jenny Choi: AAPI-EL D2 | 10/6/2017 | In preparation for Oct. 26th AAPI-EL D2 meeting. |
| UPRISE | 10/6/2017 | Final preparation for UPRISE Summit scheduled for October 14th at Highline College. |
| SEA & PI Health Summit Meeting | 10/24/2017 | Health Equity; Next meeting will be in December |
| AAPI-EL D2 Meeting | 10/26/2017 | Advised Evergreen, Spokane and Federal Way School Districts on family, student and community engagement strategies regarding work with PI communities. Next meeting will be scheduled during winter quarter. |
| Phone meeting with Zer Vue: former commissioner | 10/27/2017 | Will be attending Hmong New Years on November 4th. Zer would like to involve me in more Hmong community activities. |
| Hmong New year | 11/4/2017 | Learned about language credit opportunities to share out. |
Commissioner Sinclair
| Activity | Date | Issues & Recommendations |
| Diabetes Network Leadership | 9/20/2017 | Discussed ways to increase the accessibility of diabetes prevention program to under insured and uninsured populations of Washington. |
| Gathering of Pacific Islander Health Conference | 10/3/2017 | Health disparities persist throughout the Pacific and among Pacific Islanders residing in the continental U.S. |
| Engage for Equity | 10/23/2017 | Community-based participatory research workshop. |
| Pacific Northwest Cardio-metabolic Disparities Symposium | 10/26/2017 | A strategic planning meeting with Washington stakeholders to identify research and policy recommendations to reduce cardio-metabolic disparities among Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and American Indians residing in Washington. |
| Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs | 11/1/2017 | Administered comprehensive health survey to 194 Native Hawaiian participants of the 58th annual national meeting of the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs. |
| Focus groups with NHPI about hypertension | 10/21/2017 | NHPIs need information and support in managing high blood pressure. |
Commissioner Tufono
N/A
Commissioner Wada
| Activity | Date | Issues & Recommendations |
| Crisis Standards of Care committee meeting | 10/31/2017 | Soliciting input from community members and community gathering to include voices of under-served communities on health equity issues in emergency situations including pandemic. |
| Economic Disparity Stakeholder meeting | 11/2/2017 | Disparity in government contracting. There will be a follow up meeting. |
| Medicare outreach | 11/14/2017 | Provided one-on-one counseling for Medicare eligible individuals. No follow up. Coordinated the event in partnership with the Office of Insurance Commissioner. |
| Senior University | 11/9/2017 | Many seniors in Korean community are not aware of Medicare benefits and enrollment requirements.Based on initial meeting, I scheduled a follow up event partnering with the Office of Insurance Commissioner to provide assistance in personalized individual needs. The follow up event is scheduled for Nov 14, 2017, 10 am – 2 pm. Registration is required. |
