The volume focuses on the challenging distinctions and commonalities shared by these highly diverse ethnic/racial communities within the context of community resilience and how resilience can be brought to bear in the design, implementation, and evaluation of prevention approaches. Specific essays discuss: (1) strategic opportunities and challenges for primary health care; (2) a framework for Asian-American and Pacific Islander programs; (3) developing culturally valid measures for assessing prevention impact; (4) the impact of gender and age roles; (5) identifying at-risk Asian-American adolescents in multiethnic schools; (6) current evidence on substance abuse among Asian-American youth; (7) cultural context and implications for prevention programs; (8) issues of responsibility, justice and culture; and (9) developing cultural competence evaluation for Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities. References, notes, figures, tables