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My name is Amanda Young and I am a Crisis Intervention Specialist at Lines for Life. I identify as an Asian American, and I have been struggling with depression and anxiety since I was about 12, which really pushed me into this field of work. I want to support others.<\/p>\n
When people think about communities of color, they don\u2019t generally think of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Right now, there\u2019s additional prejudice and violence toward Asian people around the Coronavirus. I talk with people on the helpline who are afraid to leave their homes alone because they don\u2019t know what might happen.<\/p>\n
Asian Americans receive mental health services at the lowest rate of any racial\/ethnic group \u2013 despite 37% of Asian American adults experiencing poor mental health in a 30-day period.<\/strong><\/p>\n To me, racial equity is seeing everybody for who they are individually. Just because someone is Chinese, and I\u2019m Chinese, doesn\u2019t mean that we are having the same experiences. You have to be able to identify that and be open to changing your assumptions. It\u2019s really important, especially in this community, to support everybody individually.<\/p>\n Korean and Japanese Americans show significantly higher suicide rates than other Asian American and Pacific Islanders \u2013 but important differences in culture are often blurred because data on Asian American and Pacific Islanders are combined as one racial group.<\/strong><\/p>\n Lines for Life has a Racial Equity Support Line, answered by people of color with our own individual experiences, for anyone struggling with the emotional impacts of racism. * I think that ultimately, we can better understand and provide support for the struggles that we go through in our communities. We feel more comfortable when we talk to someone who has similar experiences.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”25px||10px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n * We are deeply disappointed to share that\u00a0<\/span>t<\/span>he<\/span>\u00a0Racial Equity Support Line\u00a0<\/span><\/span>closed on June 30, 2025<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0due to the\u00a0<\/span>conclusion<\/span>\u00a0of pandemic-era funding from the Oregon Health Authority.\u00a0<\/span>Whil<\/span>e<\/span>\u00a0this change is deeply felt<\/span>, our commitment to ensuring\u00a0<\/span>communities of color have access to the support they need\u00a0<\/span>remains<\/span>\u00a0unchanged<\/span>. View other\u00a0<\/span><\/span>culturally specific resources available in Oregon<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<\/span><\/span>call 988 in Oregon and talk to a caring Lines for Life counselor<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0trained to respond without assumptions, support without judgement, and de-escalate without force.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Lines for Life is working to change that through its Racial Equity Support Line, a helpline staffed entirely by professionals of color who understand the unique challenges BIPOC individuals face.\u201d Include footnote message included below.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My name is Amanda Young and I am a Crisis Intervention Specialist at Lines for Life. I identify as an Asian American, and I have been struggling with depression and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,64,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asian-pacific-islander-heritage-month","category-equity","category-suicide-prevention-month"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.linesforlife.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.linesforlife.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.linesforlife.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.linesforlife.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.linesforlife.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.linesforlife.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.linesforlife.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.linesforlife.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.linesforlife.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.linesforlife.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"\u00a1Buen juego!","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}