Kilusan Wellness Healing Justice Clinic
The Kilusan Wellness Healing Justice Clinic is a program of the American Rescue Plan Support for Survivors Program that supports culturally-specific, community-based projects supporting survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault from Asian and Pacific Islander Communities in the United States and the Pacific. The Clinic serves adult LGBTQ+ Filipinx survivors of sexual assault and their dependents with wellness treatments, like acupuncture and neurofeedback. In addition, frontline non-profit workers who provide direct service for this population will also be eligible for these services. Other programming includes our community engaging in activities that create opportunities for meaningful connection and nurturing relationship, like storytelling/talk story events, open mic nights, arts and crafts workshops, or documentary film screening with discussion. With all the uncertainty that exists in the world, we can find the answers we seek in the dialogue we have with one another.
This funding is provided through the Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Initiative (API-GBV) and the National Organization of Asians & Pacific Islanders Ending Sexual Violence (NAPIESV).
This funding is provided through the Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Initiative (API-GBV) and the National Organization of Asians & Pacific Islanders Ending Sexual Violence (NAPIESV).
Kapwa Ko
Kilusan Wellness is proud to be one of the lead educators in the Kapwa Ko caregiver/domestic worker support group with Filipino Advocates for Justice’s Worker Organizing program. Kapwa Ko provides wellness support and workforce training to unlicensed Filipino caregivers. Caregivers face an inordinate amount of stress, burnout, exhaustion, and isolation due to the heavy demands of the work they do in the world. Too often, caring for others takes precedence over their own health and well-being. Kilusan Wellness provides wellness workshops and trainings on nutrition and digestion, stress management, sleep hygiene, managing pain, incorporating daily movement, and other self-care topics to help encourage, guide, and inspire unlicensed caregivers to also nurture their own health and care for their bodies, hearts, and minds.
This work is funded through Filipino Advocates for Justice by the California Department of Aging Cal-Grows program.
This work is funded through Filipino Advocates for Justice by the California Department of Aging Cal-Grows program.