New Mexico Asian Family Center

Founded in 2006, NMAFC is a community-based organization that provides culturally sensitive programs and services creating a Pan-Asian community that advocates for and supports itself. The Organization remains the largest and most comprehensive social service agency in the state of New Mexico tailored to the Asian, Pacific Islander, and Native Hawaiian population. NMAFC provides direct social services to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and other crimes including case management, counseling, legal consultation and representation, healing circles, and peer support groups; offers multigenerational youth and family engagement programming, language access services, leadership development, community building, financial literacy workshops, and civic engagement efforts; invests in cross-racial coalition building; and advocates alongside the community with the goal of ensuring all New Mexicans voices are heard. This year, through direct social services, the Organization served 634 clients who were low-income, immigrant or refugees, survivors of crimes, and/or LEPs from 9 New Mexican counties. Services included case management, legal aid, counseling, resource navigation, community health support, and various support/healing groups. 90% of these clients received services in a language other than English, represent 22 different ethnicities, and spanned ages from under 13 years-old to over 86 years old. NMAFC also served over 628 families through multi-generational family programs (informational outreach; registration for early childhood education programs, schooling, and other activities; focus group support, and workshops with parents and APS staff). The Organization hosted 7 in-language financial education programs with 219 participants, collectively, and multiple voter education workshops with more than 130 participants in attendance. Additionally, NMAFC engaged with 459 individuals through in-language civic engagement efforts, contacted 12,737 voters through mailers translated into 9 Asian languages, and reached over 22,569 through digital outreach. The Organization also expanded its language services this year, by recruiting and training 5 new Language Access Liaisons (LALs), totaling 37 active LALs; and by establishing 4 new contract agencies receiving these services, totaling 11 local and state contracts. Language services were provided in Vietnamese, Chinese Mandarin, Cantonese, Arabic, Thai, Farsi, Dari, Japanese, Korean, Tagalog.