A Community Unites to "Silence the Violence"
In Support of the Center for the Pacific Asian Family (CPAF)
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LOS ANGELES -- (U.S. ASIAN WIRE) -- January 15, 2010 - Sandra Oh, John Cho, Aaron Yoo, Lisa Ling,
Archie Kao, C.S. Lee, Joan Chen, Justin Chon, Far East Movement, Kaba Modern and over 100 other
members of the creative community will appear in a series of videos supporting the Center for the Pacific
Asian Family (CPAF). It is truly a Cinderella story as still hundreds more contributed their time, experience
and resources to produce the videos and help raise awareness about domestic violence and sexual assault.
A Los Angeles based non-profit, CPAF provides a multi-lingual 24-hour call center, emergency shelter,
transitional housing program, counseling services and community outreach programs that focuses on the
needs of victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
CPAF finished in the top 100 out of a half million eligible groups in the first round of the Chase Community
Giving contest on Facebook. As a result, they received $25,000 and a chance to compete for a grand prize of
$1 million or one of five runner-up awards of $100,000 in the final round of voting from January 15-22. The
winners will be announced on January 23. Please join us in the effort to spread the word and get out the
vote to help CPAF win so they may continue to better serve the community.
Any and all proceeds earned will be used by CPAF to reach beyond the API community to unify all 24-hour
call centers in Los Angeles County. The badly needed funding will be used to create a sustainable joint
hotline for 20 domestic violence shelters and 6 rape crisis centers. Additionally, CPAF will extend the hotline
services to include online chat to make services more accessible to victims.
Every 15 seconds a woman is beaten in the U.S.
Every two minutes someone in the U.S. is raped or sexually assaulted.
One in three women will be abused in her lifetime.
It happens too often...the silence is deafening.
If a woman has the courage to call, we must make sure there will be someone there to listen. To vote,
please visit: www.voteCPAF.org
For more information, please contact:
Debra Suh
Executive Director
Center for the Pacific Asian Family
818-687-5191
debras@cpaf.info
Teddy Zee
Friend of CPAF
323-448-0822
teddy@teddyzee.com
Related links:
Chase Community Giving on Facebook
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/
Center for the Pacific Asian Family
http://www.NurturingChange.org/
Watch the Videos on CPAF's YouTube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/CPAFpsa
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