Collective Action
Together, we organize towards Pacific Islander Self-Determination in Oregon. PI Self-Determination is a political project to ensure that we have the capacity to shape our lives in alignment with our cultural and political traditions.
Protecting Indigenous Community
We organize direct service providers, institutions, and our advocacy team to sustain our communities’ access to basic rights and resources.
Social Service Access
purpose: Increase access to Oregon’s social services that Pacific Islanders have been excluded from.
Advocacy for increased partnership, resources, and accountability with social service agencies
Monitor implementation of HR1 in Oregon
Collaborate with Community Health Workers to address the administrative barriers to social services
Immigration Response
purpose: Provide Pacific Islanders with information and resources to keep our loved ones safe.
Train Community Health Workers to be competent in basic immigration rights for PIs
Provide Know Your Rights and Immigration Preparedness Packets to PI communities
Serve as a liaison between State agencies and PI CBOs to manage immigration issues
Prevent Indigenous Erasure
purpose: Prevent the erasure of Pacific Islanders in Oregon by disrupting processes of our exclusion, elevating our stories, and holding public agencies accountable to their responsibilities.
Lead Pacific Islander Data Modernization in Oregon to increase access to disaggregated data
Reclaim our narrative with the Ocean Speaks Narrative Change Campaign
Increase the philanthropic sector’s investment in Pacific Islander-led spaces
Publish original research to elevate Pacific Islander political history and leadership in Oregon
Build Indigenous Systems
Build Pacific Islander-governed health, education, and data systems that perpetuate cultural resilience for current and future generations.
Health Initiative
purpose: develop a Community Health system powered by chws to lead the integration of primary healthcare, traditional medicine, and community programming.
Coordinate the Pacific Islander Community Health Worker Network
Develop and implement the Pacific Islander Community Services & Referrals Hub
Bring primary care to Pacific Islanders through our Pacific Islander Community Health Clinics
Education initiative
purpose: Transform the education system through indigenous metrics and strategies to support young Pacific Islanders in their development as indigenous people.
Coordinate the Pacific Islander Network of Educators to collaborate on programs
Resource Pacific Islander Educators with the PI Education Strategy Dashboard
Engage and develop youth organizers to lead our Education Policy Priorities
“We should not be defined by the smallness of our islands, but by the greatness of our oceans. We must wake up to this ancient truth and, together, use it to overturn all hegemonic views that aim, ultimately, to confine us again; physically and psychologically. It is time to create things for ourselves; to create established standards of excellence that match those of our ancestors.”
-‘Epeli Hau’ofa
