ASIA Latest News & Events

ASIA is pleased to be partnering with Recovery Resources to build the capacity to provide linguistic and culturally accessible gambling addiction services to Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Northeast Ohio.  Gambling addiction is an often hidden and under-recognized issue in the AAPI community and ASIA is eager to provide support services.

ASIA program staff  Allison Arsouzy will be spending time at Recovery Resources to gain hands-on training while providing additional support to their gambling addiction program.  Recovery Resources is a non-profit agency in Cleveland that delivers outpatient mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment programs.

To learn more about Recovery Resources, click here.
For more  information on ASIA’s gambling addiction services, please contact allison@asiainc-ohio.org

ASIA is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Literacy Cooperative Americorps program.  The Literacy Cooperative is a local organization that received a grant from Americorps to bring volunteers to Northeast Ohio to address the area’s acute need for literacy advancement.

NEO Literacy Corps members will work with area agencies like ASIA to advance financial, health, youth, and family literacy in the community.  ASIA’s Literacy Corps member will work to provide literacy tutoring to students in the after school program and adult ESOL classes.

To learn more about the Literacy Cooperative and the NEO Literacy Corps, click here.

ASIA’s 2008-09 Annual Report is now available!  Click here to learn more about ASIA’s projects and outcomes from the past year.

Every day nearly 4,000 kids under 18 try their first cigarette and 1,000 children under 18 become daily smokers. In high school, 7% of Asian American students smoke.

The FDA just announced new rules, which went into effect on June 22,2010 to limit the sale and marketing of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco by:

.       Prohibiting the sale of cigarettes or smokeless tobacco to people younger than 18;
.       Prohibiting the sale of cigarette packages with less than 20 cigarettes;
.       Prohibiting distribution of free samples of cigarettes;
.       Restricting distribution of free samples of smokeless tobacco; and
.       Prohibiting tobacco companies from sponsoring any athletic, musical or other social or cultural events, among other things.

ASIA is pleased to promote the FDA’s Break the Chain campaign.  To learn more and  spread the word, click here.