Overseas Filipino Workers and Mental Health
73%
73%
of Filipino Americans have never used any mental health services
Only 17% have said they sought any help from their friends, family, or peers.
Filipino Nurses and COVID-19
In the early months of the pandemic, 31.5% of nurses in the United States who died from COVID-19 and related complications were Filipino.
At the same time, Filipinos made up only 4% of the US nursing workforce.
- data from National Nurses United report, September 2020
CICATRIX: Healing through Storytelling for Nurses in the Filipino Diaspora
hybrid event at the APIDA+ Center at Virginia Tech, presented October 29, 2024
Content Warning: death, abuse/exploitation, colonialism and systemic violence