Aapi Montclair Inc

Cultural and community - we create days and spaces where aapis can share, learn, celebrate, build community, and access direct services, including major celebrations of diwali, lunar new year, holi/songkran, and aapi heritage month. The annual lantern festival for justice and remembrance, and over 80 smaller events throughout the year with total annual participation of 10,000+ youth and adults. We offer culturally relevant mental and physical wellness workshops, healing sessions, and referrals to address new jersey aapis community needs and reduce stigma, access, and other uptake barriers. We also offer capacity-building subgrants to strengthen and support emerging aapi organizations across new jersey.

Education and youth - through our teach asian american stories initiative, we ensure that new jersey's educators have access to high-quality resources and training to incorporate aapi history and contributions into their everyday lesson plans. We served teachers in 100+ districts with professional development workshops, books, and lesson plans created especially for new jersey, including the state's first illustrated map of asian american history.