YEP (Youth Empowerment Project)

02/25/2021

📣 Hey YEP Alumni! We need your help spreading the word!📣

Now through the end of the month, support our Light for Hope campaign:

-Light a candle, lantern, or similar
-Take a photo
-Post it to Facebook or Instagram
-Tag a friend and encourage them to do the same

Help us spread the word to survivors of domestic and intimate partner violence that

Please share and if you can, donate to atask.org/hope

Help prevent domestic and intimate partner violence in Asian families and communities, and provide hope to survivors. Your Donation Provides Hope to Survivors For many, the Lunar New Year represents a chance for a fresh start and new beginnings. For domestic violence survivors, we want them to know....

04/17/2019

Would you like to help improve the services for LGBQ/T survivors of partner abuse in MA? Are you part of the LGBQ/T communities? Have you ever questioned your safety in your relationship(s)? Take this quick survey and receive an Amazon gift card! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TNLRCNA

04/09/2019

Dear YEP Alumni,

You are invited to join a focus group on April 17 on health/unhealthy relationships. See below for more info.

One Love Overview
One Love Foundation was created in 2010 in honor of Yeardley Love who was tragically killed by her college boyfriend. One Love’s mission is to teach young people the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships through engaging workshops and online video that opens people’s eyes to the presence of unhealthy and abusive behaviors in their lives. This content sparks conversations and gives people guideposts on how to talk about unhealthy and healthy relationships with the aim of preventing teen dating violence one conversation at a time.

Project Description
At One Love Foundation we are always looking to improve our content so that it addresses relevant issues for all youth and ultimately is more effective at teaching healthy and unhealthy relationships. We want our new content to be more diverse by representing all youth’s experiences and we would like input from YOU to help with this process.

We are looking to conduct a focus group with 6-8 YEP alumni and friends. Please feel free to bring a friend along. We will discuss topics such as what you would like to see in new videos, how you understood healthy and unhealthy relationships in high school, how you dealt with conflict, what stereotypes you want filmmakers to avoid when depicting your community and more. Please join us on April 17th, 2019 4pm-6pm @ 500 Boylston Street Boston MA 02116. Dinner will be provided and gift cards for your time.

The focus groups will review and discuss two short One Love videos- Behind The Post and Love Labyrinth. You should set aside 90 minutes - 2 hours for the total time (including dinner). Thank you for your interest and we look forward to hearing from you.

RSVP to Charlotte Miller [email protected] by April 16th, 2019. If you can’t make it for the in-person group but would like to share your thoughts and opinions, please RSVP anyway. We may be able to do a virtual group if there is enough interest.

03/25/2019

Please join us at ATASK's Annual Meeting today, Monday, March 25, 6-7:30pm, at the Pao Arts Center, 99 Albany St., Boston. Come and hear about our accomplishments last year and our vision for the future. And enjoy some Filipino food by Akinto + Travel Water! To register,

Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence 2019 ANNUAL MEETING 6:00 - 6:30pm Light Refreshments 6:30 - 7:30pm Meeting Featuring: Highlights from 2018 ATASK's vision for the future ATASK Board ATASK Honorees: Individual Honoree: Vivian Hsu of Hsu & Associates, LLC Corporate Honoree: Ernst & Young Sta...

04/12/2018

The Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth is currently drafting annual policy recommendations to state agencies - and they need our help! We want to make sure that state policymakers hear from us. If you have experiences to share - either positive or negative - please let them know, so that they can make Massachusetts a place where all youth thrive.

The Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth is a state agency dedicated to recommending policies and programs for LGBTQ youth. Each year, we make recommendations to state agencies on education, foster care, juvenile justice, health, career services, housing, public assistance, refugee services, tran...

03/22/2018

We're taking applications for our Summer Program! Sign up today!!

REPORTS TO: Education & Outreach Coordinator PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: The Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) of the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence (ATASK) is a project designed to engage teens in addressing issues of dating violence through leadership skills, community organizing, and awareness...

09/28/2017

"I nodded and listened, as I should have the day before. My son takes great care to live as a young principled man with strong character. And he felt I didn’t acknowledge that."

It is important to meet a young person where they're at. Ask them what they know, they want to show you and always teach you a thing or two.

As a mother of four vulnerable young people, I have to be strategic in how I approach hard discussions with them. But I need to trust myself that I’m doing a good job

09/27/2017

Be brave, be bold, be beautiful. Be unapologetically you!

One mom is inspiring parents across the internet with this powerful letter that she wrote to her five-year-old daughter.

09/20/2017

All hands on deck. This is really crucial stuff!
All in with Chris Hayes on MSNBC just revealed that Mitch McConnell will allow 90 SECONDS of debate on the Senate floor for the Graham-Cassidy "healthcare" bill. That's not a misstatement. Light up the phones if you don't want to see the end of coverage for pre-existing conditions, funding for Planned Parenthood, Medicaid as we know it, and so much more. They will not even wait for a CBO score before pressing the vote forward. This is dire. PLEASE make some calls to your Senators and all your Congressional delegation. Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121.
(Copy/paste this. If you just share it then only our mutual friends can see it.)

09/06/2017

ATTENTION MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDERS:
"This is a call for all mental health providers who are interested in providing pro bono services mental health support for DACA recipients...
We are looking for mental health providers to volunteer their time to meet the urgent needs of immigrants who are in need of mental health support..."

Dear all, As you might know, the DACA program is at risk of being terminated soon. We are expecting the Trump administration to make an announcement soon. Many DACA recipients and their families will be in crisis as they try to cope with the devastating impact that this announcement will have on the...

08/15/2017

In these sour times, let me vouch for mine.