Advocacy

For over 50 years, AHS has gone beyond providing direct health services through community organizing, patient empowerment, and policy advocacy.

Past Campaigns

Learn more about our local, state, and national campaigns throughout the past 50 years.

Proposition 13

Proposition 13

The 1978 passage of Proposition 13 threatened to eliminate crucial funding to community based organizations. AHS worked in collaboration with local community groups to galvanize our patient base to protest Prop 13 cuts. As a result of community mobilization and protests, AHS preserved critical funds at the County level, which enabled community groups to continue serving the medical needs of the AAPI community.

Oakland Chinatown Pedestrian Safety

Oakland Chinatown Pedestrian Safety

In the early 2000s, we led a local campaign called "Revive Chinatown" to make Oakland Chinatown safer, more pedestrian-friendly, and economically viable. That resulted in the installation of the four-way scramble crosswalks with other lighting and sidewalk improvements in the Chinatown commercial core.

Nail Salon Collaborative

Nail Salon Collaborative

In 2005, Asian Health Services established the California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative to address workplace and reproductive health issues faced by low-income Vietnamese immigrant and refugee workers. In 2016, AHS worked successfully to co-sponsor and pass the California Healthy Nail Salon Bill (AB2125).

Current Initiatives

COMMUNITY SAFETY & HEALING

Through a public health approach, we advocate alongside our patients, partner organizations, and community members for community-driven solutions for safety and healing.

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CAlifornia AA&NHPI Health Equity Coalition

In 2022, Asian Health Services founded and established an Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AA & NHPI) statewide coalition with other lead organizations. The coalition focuses on policy advocacy in three key areas—language access, mental health and data disaggregation.

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