The following materials are available from Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center's Community Development & External Affairs. For more information, contact Maile Arvin at 415.292.3420 x362.

This communications toolkit is designed to guide our growing base of supporters in the fight against HIV/AIDS-related stigma in their communities. In essence, it provides a roadmap and tools for developing community campaigns to promote acceptance of, and reduce discrimination against A&PI individuals affected by HIV/AIDS. The toolkit includes sections on "Designing your campaign", "Working with the Media", and "Tools for your Campaign", along with an appendix of resources and templates.

This interactive toolkit is designed to provide guidance to new and established counseling, testing and referral (CTR) programs for Asian & Pacific Islanders. This step-by-step format encourages how to transform basic CTR services into holistic and culturally relevant program for your constituents. This toolkit provides information and resources on: HIV-related stigma in A&PI communities, CTR program planning and implementation, logic models, core element and key characteristics of A&PI CTR programs, defining program goals and outcomes, understanding and selecting HIV testing options, client recruitment and clinic flow, bilingual/bicultural staffing, referrals and linkages, and quality assurance and evaluation.

This manual is to be used in training service providers on cultural awareness and sensitivity in regards to Asian & Pacific Islander transgender clients.

This manual is a training guide for teaching basic facilitation skills to novice group facilitators.

This manual is a basic workshop curriculum for a 1 or 2 day Basic Peer Counseling Training.

This manual is a basic workshop curriculum for a "Coming Out" Workshop.

This manual explains how to run the "Hot, Healthy, and Keeping It Up!" workshop, a safer sex discussion group for gay/bisexual/queer Asian and Pacific Islander men. The workshop includes culturally-relevant activities, risk assessment & decision making exercises, as well as eroticizing and sexual negotiating techniques and discussion. This Safer Sex 101 group is 3 hours long.

This manual is a guide for participants and facilitators on improving the running of meetings for community based groups.

This manual explains how to produce and run "one session HIV Interventions" groups and presentations. Presentations in this manual include: "Asian Gay Sexuality", "Can This Relationship Be Saved?", "How to Meet Men", and "Love Hurts: the Tragic Dating Game". These venues are quite entertaining while still promoting HIV education and discussion as well as covering other related topics. These one session, 2 hour groups, can be presented at general meetings.

This manual explains how to develop, produce, and run a street fair booth. Street fairs are excellent opportunities for your group's visibility. It is a good venue for promoting your group, for doing outreach, for education. This manual includes information and ideas on collaboration, HIV/AIDS educational interventions, as well as attention getters and entertainment.

This manual explains how to run the "Sex, Dating, and Relationships in the Age of AIDS" workshop, a four session group for gay/bisexual/queer Asian and Pacific Islander men who have "been there." This group explores sex and sexuality, intimacy, self esteem, dating, and other related topics for men who know the basics of safer sex but may still engage in risky activities. This Safer Sex 201 group is 8 hours long in 4 sessions. (2 hours each).

This manual explains how to develop, produce, and run a special event. These special events are really one time theme dance parties. These community events are excellent outreach venues. This manual goes through the basics of collaboration, HIV/AIDS educational interventions, entertainment, site, publicity, and evaluation.

This manual explains how to start an A&PI Gay/Bi Men's Support Group. Chapters include, Who Are Asian And Pacific Islanders, Obstacles to Group Development, Topics and Basic Facilitation Suggestions for Meetings/Discussion Groups, and A Selection of Meeting Topics.

This manual provides important strategies in supervising staff, as modeled by Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center. Topics include philosophy of supervision, building a supervisory alliance, confronting problematic behaviors and giving praise, boundaries, transitions, and staff development. Also available on our Publications page.

This Clinician's Guide is a practical resource for medical providers who are confronted with basic cultural challenges presented by Asian & Pacific Islander (A&PI) patients living with HIV infection. Information is based on the direct experience of patients and the experience reported by providers who have worked with these patients.

Fun, sexy and informative! This multi-lingual safer sex guide is an Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center's original creation. Our innovative prevention brochures are available in four languages: Chinese, Japanese, Tagalog as well as English.

One of the kind, A&PI Transgender (MTF) HIV Resource Guide developed by Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center. This colorful and empowering educational material is very popular and we have a difficulty keeping them in stock! Available In English.

This is a film which explores the joys and difficulties of coming out across cultural and language barriers among Chinese and Chinese-American lesbians, gays and bisexuals. The first video to examine the lack of vocabulary to explain issues of identity in Chinese languages, it introduces 21 individuals in various stages of coming out and how their family and friends have responded to them. Directed by Ming-Yuen S. Ma, Cianna P. Stewart and Jessica Yu, the film's running time is 49 minutes. This film has Chinese and English subtitles. Won "Best Documentary Award" at Chicago Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival in 1997.

These two films both feature Asian and Pacific Islander families in their struggle to overcome cultural stigma to accept and support sons and daughters who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender & queer.

Coming Out, Coming Home is a film showcasing a variety of families of lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual Asians and Pacific Islanders as they describe their efforts to find support, overcome homophobia and transphobia, and to improve their family relationships. Directed by Hima B., the film runs 44 minutes. Hima B. is an independent director/producer whose work has been shown internationally and nationally. An Indian-American femme-dyke, her work includes the documentary, Straight for the Money, shown at the 1995 Whitney Biennial. Through her independent communication company, Himaphiliac Productions, she creates documentaries, narratives, and experimental work that explore the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and economics, especially as it relates to queer women.