This brief synthesizes insights, reflections, and recommendations from a series of listening sessions held with Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) behavioral health providers in California from March to May 2021.

Providers shared how the current environment of anti-AAPI violence impacts them personally, affects their relationships with family and friends, and diminishes their sense of belonging in the broader community. In the workplace, these impacts intensify the stress of working in a healing profession and speak to the pressing need to support and stand in solidarity with AAPI providers.