Promoting Integrated Behavioral Health During Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (AANHPIHM). This year's theme is "Building Legacy Together: Our Communities' Journey of Strength and Resilience."

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Academy for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care is celebrating AANHPIHM this year and sharing resources that clinicians, providers, and other care team members can share and use with Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander patients and their families.

Insurance Coverage

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Asian American, Native Hawaiians, & Pacific Islanders Fact Sheet
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Coverage to Care Enrollment Toolkit Enrollment Toolkit: Help Consumers Choose The Right Plan
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - From Coverage to Care: A Roadmap to Better Care and a Healthier You (available in Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese)
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Medicare & You handbook (available in Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese)

Health Needs

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Understanding the Health Needs of Diverse Groups of Asian and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander Medicare Beneficiaries
• AA & NH/PI Health Central - The AA & NH/PI Web Hub

Mental Health

• National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association - AANHPI Service Providers in all Fifty States
• Asian American Health Initiative - AAHI Resource Library (available in Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Hindi, and more)
• Office of Minority Health - Mental and Behavioral Health: Asian Americans
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration - Behavioral Health Equity: Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander resource page

Substance Use

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration - In-Language Publications and Digital Products (Chinese)
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration - In-Language Publications and Digital Products (Korean)
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration - In-Language Publications and Digital Products (Vietnamese)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Tips From Former Smokers ® Campaign: Asian Americans (available in Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - National Asian Language Tobacco Use and Dependence Treatment Support System (available in Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean and Vietnamese)
• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism - Understanding Alcohol Use Disorder factsheet (available in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tagalog, and Vietnamese)

For more information about AANHPIHM see:

• The White House - A Proclamation on Asian American, Native Hawaiian, And Pacific Islander Heritage Month, 2022
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health - National Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Fact Sheet: Celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2022