With a mission to provide culturally sensitive programs and services creating a Pan-Asian community that advocates for and supports itself, the New Mexico Asian Family Center (NMAFC), a community-based non-profit, works to advance the visibility, rights, and equitable access to services for Asian, Pacific Islander, and Native Hawaiian (APINH) and Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) families across New Mexico.
Through a root-cause analysis centered on anti-racism, NMAFC has intentionally invested in survivor-led and centered direct social services, advanced policy advocacy and civic engagement work, nurtured spaces for youth and family leadership development, and sought to ground its services in the traditional modalities of healing through practices that have been with our families across generations.
Our services are tailored for immigrants and refugees, survivors of gender-based violence and other crimes, speakers of APINH and MENA languages, and low to extremely low-income individuals and families in the APINH and MENA community.
Having started by providing counseling and case management services in a house, NMAFC has now grown to be the largest and most comprehensive social service provider in the state of New Mexico tailoring its services to the APINH population. All of our services and programs offered in-house are free of charge, available in multiple APINH and MENA languages, led by those most impacted, and are designed in conjunction with our women and families, who help to identify needs within New Mexico. Our core values are founded on the belief that the solutions and answers we need lie within our communities' deep wisdom and experiences, and that our programs and services should reflect this.