Project APPA

✔️ The Asian Parents Participatory Action (𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐀), a university-community research project, is recruiting practitioners and service providers in education, social services, children, youth & family, settlement, mental health or community advocacy sectors across Canada to attend focus groups to discuss strategies and resources to address 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢-𝐀𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐦.

✔️The focus groups will create space for practitioners and service providers to share experiences, listen to one another’s perspectives, engage in collective reflection and also collaboratively shape resources that provide practical and applicable solutions to anti-Asian racism.

✔️Please check out the eligibility criteria if you are interested in participating, and feel free to share with your network who may be interested in joining the conversation.

Registration link: https://utorontofsw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0SWDwwBXKjK6IDA

📍Project Email: [email protected]

📌Project APPA is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Grant

Kumusta! Hello!

The Asian Parent Participatory Action (Project APPA) at the University of Toronto is inviting Filipino parents or caregivers in Canada to share their experiences with discrimination and how they talk with their children about rasism.

Participants will:
* Take part in two online focus group discussions
* Receive $40 for each session as a thank-you for their time

The goal of this project is to listen to parents’ stories and to create helpful resources for Asian parents in Canada. Please see the recruitment flyer attached. Filipino parents can sign up by:

Scanning the QR code on the flyer, or using this link:
https://utorontofsw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0oKrMIJjyrvZfmK

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out. Thank you for your time and interest. We hope to hear from you.

Maraming salamat!

We would like to invite you all to a virtual holiday get-together happening this coming Saturday, December 13th, with Centre Kapwa MTL and My Script My Voice, featuring amazing guest Andi Vincente. Please share with your community networks as well.
Thank you for your interest!

Where: Via Zoom
When: Saturday, December 13th 2025, 11:30am-2:30pm (EST)
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Please register here: bit.ly/4abTnWe

🔎In collaboration with HF Care (formerly Hong F**k Mental Health Association), the My Script My Voice Team prepared a post on understanding the perpetual foreigner stereotype. This stereotype frames minority groups as outsiders, suggesting they can never fully belong. This stereotype continues to shape experiences of exclusion and belonging today, embedded in social, political, and economic structures.

Among many stories, a participant in MSMV’s study recalled being asked, “Where are you really from?” This experience illustrates how the perpetual foreigner stereotype continues to shape everyday interactions and sustain feelings of alienation.

📚The anti-Asian practices and policies rooted in Canada’s history provide an understanding of how the perpetual foreigner stereotype emerged. It is equally important to remember and recognize the contributions of Asian communities to Canada's development.

🔗If you are interested in learning about their contributions, please read: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/asian-heritage-month/important-events.html

💡In the booklet, The Asian You(th): Racism, Mental Health & Identity, five Hong F**k Youth Ambassadors discuss thought-provoking conversations on the impacts of anti-Asian racism on Asian youth in Canada- how it shapes their identities, affects their mental health and sense of belonging and influences their overall well-being. Throughout the booklet, they provide insights into how Asian youths navigate anti-Asian racism with courage and honesty. It also offers guidance for starting conversations about anti-Asian racism and how to access available services. The stories and resources call on all of us to build compassionate, inclusive communities through advocacy and collective action.

ℹ️Established in 1982, Hong F**k Mental Health Association is the leading ethno-cultural community mental health agency with a consolidated culturally competent team serving Asian and other communities in the Greater Toronto Area. (Retrieved from the website)

🔗To read the full booklet, please click on the link in our bio or scan the QR code.

🌏 Filipinos in Canada social + community workers, this is for you!

We’re co-hosting a 1-hour virtual info session with U of T’s Project APPA on tackling anti-Asian racism. Learn about the project, help recruit Filipino parents for focus groups, and connect with others in the field.

📅 Pick your time:
• Thurs Oct 9, 4pm PT / 7pm ET
• Fri Oct 10, 10am PT / 1pm ET

Let’s strengthen Filipino voices together. For more info about this info session, check out in the bio.



👈Swipe left for the English poster.
🪧Registration link is in 's bio.🌏 Filipinos in Canada social + community workers, this is for you!

We’re co-hosting a 1-hour virtual info session with U of T’s Project APPA on tackling anti-Asian racism. Learn about the project, help recruit Filipino parents for focus groups, and connect with others in the field.

📅 Pick your time:
• Thurs Oct 9, 4pm PT / 7pm ET
• Fri Oct 10, 10am PT / 1pm ET

Let’s strengthen Filipino voices together. For more info about this info session, check out in the bio.



🪧Registration link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9sVCXFE0J4Dy_dzZkeLhrCcbnOPKMgnHs4TmJmwrDA7e09g/viewform

📽Four Asian youth share their lived and vivid experiences of anti-Asian racism in a creative, digital storytelling.

🔖Julia and Loretta talk about how the desire to conform to white beauty ideals can highlight pervasive and hidden forms of anti-Asian racism. Zichen traces his journey from childhood to adulthood in Canada, uncovering the moments that reveal anti-Asian racism and the search for his identity. Janet reflects on living through the pandemic with fear and misinformation. At the same time, she represents how Asian pride shapes through challenges, differences and the strength to endure.

💡Through digital storytelling, Julia, Loretta, Zichen and Janet bring attention to realities, awareness, embracing identity, finding strength in community and how these can transform personal struggles into resilience and pride.

👉Please scan the QR code or click on the link in our bio to watch the creative stories in full version!

Link: https://www.myscriptmyvoice.com/invisibilized-canadians/dsi

📚Elaine’s short story invites us to pause and reflect: What hidden assumptions and mindsets might we need to confront in ourselves to break the cycle of perpetuating anti-Asian racism?

💭And how can we begin changing them in our everyday lives? Inward reflection could open the door to dialogue and to the ongoing practice of unlearning.

🙌If you want to read the full story, please scan the QR code on the last page or click on the link in the bio.

💡The collaborative project “Invisibilized Canadians” between the My Script My Voice team, community organizations, and the youth in 2023 brought youth voices to the forefront to share their experiences with anti-Asian racism and how they confront it in creative ways, such as art, writing, and digital stories.

📌We will share the work of Asian youth on our social media pages so that we can understand the perspectives of Asian youth and envision more inclusivity, solidarity, and resilience against anti-Asian racism.

🙌More posts coming soon!

✍️“I Don’t Know Why I Feel So Bad Being Asian” published by My Script My Voice’s team, studies the psychological impact racism has on Asian youth, such as trauma, identity loss and self-blame. From 36 Asian Canadian youth, it becomes clear that what is dismissed as ‘teasing’ often reveals the deeper structures of racism. Racism leaves marks- but every person carries and responds to the trauma differently.

⌛Please take a moment to read through the summary of the interviews on how Asian Canadian youth uncover how anti-Asian racism influences their identity and belonging.

👉Swipe to learn more!

💡Understanding anti-Asian racism means looking at both where it starts and what it leaves behind. As we prepare for a summary of another publication, “I Don’t Know Why I Feel So Bad Being Asian” by My Script My Voice’s team, we want to highlight a few points in comparison to the previous article, “It Goes under the Radar!”

📝The upcoming article explores the deep psychological impact racism has on Asian youth, such as trauma, identity loss and self-blame. In contrast, the first article uncovers how racism is often systemically embedded, invisible in everyday life, only becoming visible in moments of public crisis.

🔎We are sharing the articles as they offer a fuller picture of what anti-Asian racism entails- the complexity of how it is experienced, hidden and at times, resisted by Asian youth.

👉Stay tuned for our next post on the second article!