Care During the COVID-19 Outbreak

We offer this searchable collection of online links and materials to help equip our diverse language communities with important information about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

To help in this effort, adults must model acceptance and compassion in their words and behavior.

With the COVID-19 pandemic neither behind us or solely ahead of us, this zine offers a way to make meaning of the coronavirus crisis through long-standing practices of care that come out of Asian American histories and politics.

Check these illustrations, sparks and stories submitted by Voices of Youth contributors around the world to spread kindness and support each other.

As the American Library Association (ALA) continues to track the development of the coronavirus, racial fears and anxieties have become a dominant frame in which people evaluate concerns over the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus infection.

1. How should I respond if I am harassed on the street?

2. What constitutes a “hate crime”?

3. What immediate steps should I take if I am the victim of, or witness to, a hate crime?

4. What about a “hate incident”?

6. What if I need legal advice or assistance regarding COVID-19 related discrimination?

8. How can I access mental health resources that will address my specific needs?

9. What if I want to report my experience to an advocacy/social justice organization, or share it through social media?

10. Other Resources

The worldwide COVID-19 crisis is far from over. Over 120,000 deaths have been attributed to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the U.S. alone and at least 26 states have recently shown increases in infections.

Major crises raise people’s concern for personal safety and heighten anxiety. One effect of this heightened anxiety is that it can intensify bias and discrimination as we start focusing our attention on our own well-being. Throughout the COVID-19 crisis many individuals, particularly those from East Asian backgrounds, are reporting more experiences of racism and xenophobia. We write to highlight ways to respond if you are experiencing bias and discrimination or if you are an ally who wants to support them.

Disturbed by the rise in xenophobia and anti-Asian racism during this global health crisis, we at CAPS stand in solidarity with all members of our community who experience marginalization and threat, based on their identity, ethnicity, and physical appearance. We condemn any form of prejudice, stigmatization, or racism.

In response to the alarming escalation in xenophobia and bigotry resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Asian Pacific Planning and Policy Council (A3PCON), Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), and the Asian American Studies Department of San Francisco State University launched the Stop AAPI Hate reporting center on March 19, 2020. The center tracks and responds to incidents of hate, violence, harassment, discrimination, shunning, and child bullying against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States.

Asian Women for Health (AWFH) is a peer-led, community-based network dedicated to advancing Asian women’s health and wellbeing through education, advocacy, and support. ​We are a diverse group of individuals working together across differences in age, ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, socio-economic and educational levels, to address individual, community-wide and systemic barriers that affect Asian women and their loved ones. Hear our stories and support our journeys to healthier lives.

This online community hub is born from the research project Responding to COVID-19 Anti-Asian Racial Violence through Community Care, Solidarity and Resistance.

It seeks to empower individual and community capacity to respond to racial violence by holding space – and acting as a hub – for networks of community care, resistance and solidarity.