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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">SPR News <info@preventionresearch.org><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>"info@preventionresearch.org" <info@preventionresearch.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 3:03 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Leslie Leve <leve@uoregon.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Society for Prevention Research Statement on Anti-Asian Violence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 by the prior administration. Since March 20, 2020 there have been nearly 4,000 documented racist incidents against AAPI – a 150% increase from prior years.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#5D5D5D"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GaeDjJfk8cyx742wU2fWu56bQ3XVc8KKwxwyNeMMD5pb1dlkZzHV9qZab40qqkrd_G1nuhHGNjcOlvHfNIafczfUv4u1dLuI_6DynsgUbsBjeALjAY8p3gO8PsSqIw8NbH6eRz_uoiJwABYKN3I3IVmirXz1fIMBZ3HyERqiEko1vvtSAjpW-I3STEO3etZKKJ_tfSGMW_3EqYtVCl3kczkmn00OWf8WpwYZLacVHDlDz6cTwm0row==&c=ay7099jziodSvI8nXD5oJ1v0zE3VC9MmE1A2xrcWETrHyK-uibvUiQ==&ch=a6pEhvm9-Wobg2iQBCv2wrGYBzH2fSULEZyMR87qygq8Ht0DvCsCDg==__;!!C5qS4YX3!VxPW73q4j8mjAc_9hZd4ttwQHXTn3gUkhDMDURudnlKLu4U35J8r3aNCGlr1OII$" target="_blank"><b><sup><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4C4C4C;position:relative;top:-2.5pt;mso-text-raise:2.5pt">1</span></sup></b></a></span><sup><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4C4C4C;position:relative;top:-2.5pt;mso-text-raise:2.5pt">,</span></sup><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#5D5D5D"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GaeDjJfk8cyx742wU2fWu56bQ3XVc8KKwxwyNeMMD5pb1dlkZzHV9qZab40qqkrdOGq0l-dNE_G5BFf7Ya_d-nwDVLONWjYBTHQvEgGUFq5u2cTyI1SJ2yruwD_5bKY_-OpT1SZO0WGXsWlpohmvcJfUo4p8IfpgFTrIlbtIOiuxWUjtuYc79vnYKdRlSrUNqEY39x3Aj2gV4MfTHTj_aUd01HOq1A1AC1oEusmi2D-KN4K6OrZ5EjWMfmSt-fn2IUIsgPLtPWs=&c=ay7099jziodSvI8nXD5oJ1v0zE3VC9MmE1A2xrcWETrHyK-uibvUiQ==&ch=a6pEhvm9-Wobg2iQBCv2wrGYBzH2fSULEZyMR87qygq8Ht0DvCsCDg==__;!!C5qS4YX3!VxPW73q4j8mjAc_9hZd4ttwQHXTn3gUkhDMDURudnlKLu4U35J8r3aNCNifcRh0$" target="_blank"><b><sup><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4C4C4C;position:relative;top:-2.5pt;mso-text-raise:2.5pt">2</span></sup></b></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4C4C4C">
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 new to the Asian American and Pacific Islanders communities. The Chinese Exclusion Act, the internment during WW II of US citizens of Japanese descent, KKK assaults on Vietnamese fishing communities along the US Gulf Coast, the attacks on South Asian Americans
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<i>reacting</i> to these incidents with our response limited to well-meaning, but ultimately meaningless words. To accomplish this goal:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#5D5D5D">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4C4C4C">We support the widescale implementation of programs and policies generated by the field of prevention science that have been shown to ameliorate, challenge,
 and change the structural, institutional, and individual level policies and practices that perpetuate and sustain racism and sexism.
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4C4C4C">We are collectively committed to working with governing bodies and communities to co-develop interventions and policies that are aligned with community
 strengths and needs, and to promote the use of community-led and evidence-informed solutions to ensure that Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities live in a society that is fair, just, equitable, and free of racism, xenophobia, harassment,
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4C4C4C">The number of BIPOC individuals on local, state, and federal administrative and governing bodies;
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4C4C4C">Education of the public on historical injustices against AAPI communities, recognizing that knowledge regarding determinants of inequity, violence, and
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4C4C4C">Funding for mental health services, including parity in insurance coverage;
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4C4C4C">Funding to prevent the continued spread of white nationalism, which is the common denominator of mass violence and hate crime incidents;
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4C4C4C">Funding for prevention science, focused on research to reduce systemic- and individual-level racism, sexism, and other forms of bias and discrimination;
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4C4C4C">Funding to prevent gun violence; and
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