Asian Women for Health

Asian Women for Health is a non-profit organization based in Massachusetts, United States, that is dedicated to advancing the health and well-being of Asian women and their families. The organization focuses on addressing the unique health challenges and disparities faced by Asian women through various programs, education, advocacy, and community engagement. 

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Asian Women for Health offers a range of programs and services to support Asian women in improving their physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Some of the key initiatives include: 

1. Health Education and Outreach: The organization conducts educational workshops, seminars, and community events to raise awareness about various health issues affecting Asian women. Topics covered may include cancer prevention and screening, mental health, nutrition, reproductive health, and chronic disease management. 

2. Support Groups: Asian Women for Health facilitates support groups that provide a safe and nurturing space for Asian women to share their experiences, seek support, and build connections. These groups often focus on specific health concerns or life transitions, such as breast cancer, menopause, or caregiving. 

3. Research and Publications: Asian Women for Health engages in research initiatives to better understand the health challenges faced by Asian women and to contribute to evidence-based practices. They also produce publications and resources that provide culturally relevant information on health topics. 

4. Community Engagement: The organization actively engages with the Asian community through collaborations, partnerships, and community events. They work with local organizations, healthcare providers, and community leaders to promote health awareness and access to resources. 

Asian Women for Health is committed to promoting health equity and empowerment, reducing stigma, and improving the overall well-being of Asian women. By addressing the unique cultural, linguistic, and social factors that impact health outcomes, the organization strives to create a supportive and inclusive environment where Asian women can lead healthy lives. 

Eric Braun is the Chief Development and Innovation Officer. He previously served as Interim Executive Director. He plays a collaborative focus with the Executive Director in setting strategy and leading the organization. His main focus is on developing new products/services, enhancing existing programs and revenue generating activities. 

In the past 25 years, Eric has co-founded 4 tech startups, an incubator and 2 nonprofit initiatives. He has served on the boards of startups and nonprofits and advised hundreds of entrepreneurs and business leaders. He has spent time working in corporate innovation developing solutions related to AI, retail automation, software and process improvement. 

In 2022, Eric's initiative Innovators for Ukraine helped Ukrainians displaced to Poland due to war. The team received an Innovation Leader Impact Award for their work from Innovation Leader and was invited to speak about their work at a national conference.

In 2023, Eric has dedicated his time to helping advance health equity of underrepresented people in his leadership at Asian Women for Health.

Since the Leap project is aligned to our programs in Workforce Development and HCFA Community Engagement, the Team Lead and supporting team members work towards their existing priorities. Leap is an extension of our existing work and we are committed to advancing our programs and improving their outcomes.

We're helping young people of underrepresented backgrounds thrive by discovering whole health for their mind, body and spirit.

Young people often don't think about the various aspects of health, but learning at a young age can form a strong foundation for a healthy life. Without knowledge and practice, young people can suffer from many health issues that To cover 

The program we're developing is a series of in-person workshops/classes/sessions. We believe in experiential and team learning and are planning ways to incorporate this into our program. 

We also recognize that people learn in different and personalized ways and at different paces. Some of this may be based on their environment, their family situation, their age and their physical and mental readiness. We hope to implement choices and adaptability into the program to allow for personalized individual and team learning so that all participants can achieve mastery. 

We have insights from a partner organization, NAAPIMHA (National Asian American and Pacific Islander Mental Health Association), who has been teaching a program on Achieving Whole Health to adults in the AAPI community. Anecdotal evidence from their program indicates it helps AAPI adults deal with mental health problems. We are looking at using this as a launchpoint for our Discovering Whole Health for youth. We believe it's important to begin awareness and understanding early of better ways to live healthier lives physically, mentally and spiritually. Early learning will better prepare young people to avoid and overcome challenges later on in their lives. 

We look to the LEAP Project to help us better define and understand desired outcomes.

We are too early on to make conclusions.

We are just embarking on this program to help young people learn about ways to live healthier as complete humans. We believe it will be valuable to collect evidence of the program outcomes and value from the beginning, so that we can use this understanding to iteratively evolve and improve the program. Without an evidence-based approach, we may not make the greatest impact we can. 

Since we have limited experience in this area, we welcome the LEAP Project access to a global pool of research and social entrepreneur Fellows who can help us. We welcome research recommendations, guidance, strategies, resources, and tools that will inform our approach to strengthen the evidence-base of your education solution.

Professionally-managed project facilitation will help allow our lean team to focus more on our program's critical elements and delivery to the community of young people. 

Since we are actively putting together plans to implement a pilot program in the fall, partnership support from LEAP is perfectly timed.

1. What are the most important areas of health that young people need help understanding and finding life practices to prevent problems and live healthier, more specific than just physical or mental health?

2. What techniques can be used to make the program learning fun and engaging for young people? If they do not engage, they will not learn and will not be able to apply healthier practices to their lives.

3. What practices will be easiest and most effective for the young people to incorporate into their lives to create a strong foundation for healthy living?

At the end of the 12-week LEAP Project, we would like

1. To have a more refined syllabus and content for our program, one that resonates with the students and engages them.

2. To have a list of best practices in teaching these topics for young people.

3. To have a list of the easiest and most effective healthy living practices for young people to incorporate into their lives

We plan to iteratively incorporate the outputs into our program as we evolve it, scale it and deploy it more widely. Within 12 months, we would like to be able to incorporate our Discovering Whole Health program into our Workforce Development program so that the community health workers we train and deploy will be able to help young people in the communities they will serve. 

We plan to develop a model to train more people in the communities we serve to teach more young people about discovering and achieving better health practices. If we use the network effect, we can make greater impact and help people of underrepresented backgrounds live healthier lives through better practices.

Desired short-term outcomes are to create a better program through the refinement process.

Desired long-term outcomes are to take the better program and deploy it more broadly across more communities to create great impact.