“Violence against women is a human issue that affects not just individuals, but the entire community — in fact, the entire world.”
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Our Services
Center for the Pacific Asian Family (CPAF) is recognized nationally for our pioneering work in domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse services within the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Islander (API) community. We created the first multi-lingual 24-hour helpline assisting API survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in the nation. We opened the first emergency shelter and the first transitional program specialized in serving API survivors.
We provide a wide range of comprehensive services, focusing on the needs of survivors who seek to establish independent, violence-free lives. Our services are free of charge, conducted in many API languages. In 2005, we expanded our Community Program, focusing on community engagement and violence prevention programs.
Our Mission
Our mission is to build healthy and safe communities by addressing the root causes and consequences of family violence and violence against women. We are committed to meeting the specific cultural and language needs of Asian and Pacific Islander women and their families.
We are committed to creating an anti-racist and equitable organization.
CPAF’s Equity and Justice Committee is committed to creating an anti-racist and equitable organization. We will collaborate with CPAF leadership in order to establish values of racial justice, equity, and radical empathy within CPAF structures, policies, and practices. Taking an anti-racist approach to our work means not only recognizing that racism and oppression exist in the world, but also actively dismantling racist policies, habits, and ways of thinking. Standing against racism is also inherently linked to standing against other systems of oppression that reinforce patriarchy, homophobia, transphobia, classism, ableism and other forms of violence.
The mission of the Equity and Justice Committee is to reflect CPAF’s core value of nonviolence by helping establish an organization that champions equity and justice among our staff and among the communities we work with. We will encourage staff and each other to practice radical empathy to understand the marginalization of individuals and communities in order to advocate for a more just world for all.