December 2022

KYCC Hosts 29th Annual Holiday Carnival at Los Angeles Elementary School

This year KYCC celebrated the holidays with our community, as we brought our full-scale Holiday Carnival back to Koreatown! On December 3, 2022, thousands of KYCC clients, community members, and their families joined us at Los Angeles Elementary School to enjoy free, hand-wrapped gifts from Santa, arts and crafts, carnival games, and entertainment by M.I.S.T.A. Cookie Jar and J.U.i.C.E. hip hop. Read more

MacArthur Park Community Initiative Hosts Autumn Leadership Program

For seven weeks, from October 3 to November 17, 12 youth participated in KYCC Prevention Education’s MacArthur Park Community Initiative (MPCI) Autumn Leadership Program. Over the course of the internship, youth interns were empowered to strengthen their leadership skills by educating the community about the known risks and dangers of the consumption of smoke and other substances. Read more

Environmental Services Partners with City Insurance for a Koreatown Clean Up

On October 15, KYCC partnered with City Insurance to host a clean up and graffiti removal event. City Insurance is a long standing partner and community collaborator with KYCC. As an active member in the community, City insurance wanted to beautify Koreatown through cleanup and graffiti removal. Read more

Help Fundraise for KYCC’s Annual Appeal Campaign & Win a Party!

KYCC’s annual year end has launched to help raise unrestricted funds to support all agency programs! This year’s campaign will be highlight the work of our awesome Housing Services. 

Help us reach our goal of raising $25,000 by December 31^st by hosting your own Peer-to-Peer (P2P) fundraising campaign and getting your friends & family to support KYCC this holiday season.

Development will be awarding a unit 🍕pizza party🍕to TWO lucky staff whose P2P campaigns are able to:

• 1 staff who raises the highest amount of TOTAL dollars through your campaign AND
• 1 staff who gets the highest number of UNIQUE individual donations 

Don’t miss this chance to kick off the new year with a party and start your P2P fundraiser today! Go to bit.ly/home-for-the-holidays-2022 and follow the How To Guide instructions to get started. Pizza party winners will be announced in the new year.

DEI Corner: International Day of Persons with Disabilities

December 3^rd marks International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD). Established by the United Nations in 1992, IDPD promotes “an understanding of disability issues and mobilize support for the dignity, rights and well-being of persons with disabilities” (un.org). While activism can be found among various disability groups dating back to the 1800s, it wasn’t until 1990 when the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination of people with disabilities, was initiated (nps.gov). 

As many advocacy groups have found, it is an uphill battle to fight for policies before changing public perceptions. The medical model of disability claims the person is disabled by abnormalities and deficits of their own body and/or brain (eisforerin.com). The social model, however, challenges this belief, saying the person is disabled by their environment and its physical and social barriers (eisforerin.com). 

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A great example of the social model of disability is featured in the 2020 Oscar nominated documentary, Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution. The documentary features a group of persons with disabilities engaging in activism to make public transportation more accessible through Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (adata.org). We see a person in the film dragging their wheelchair with them downstairs to the subway because there was no other way to get there. This is one of many examples of how an exclusive world disables people from participating in it. However, groups like the Black Panthers supported persons with disabilities during a sit in for Section 504 (Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution). Instead of speaking for people with disabilities, these groups amplified the voices of people with disabilities and provided resources like food to sustain the activists (Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution).  

Here are some ways to honor IDPD and advocate for persons with disabilities any day: 

·  Learn about the different types of disabilities  

·  Remind ourselves that whether disabilities are physical or mental, everyone responsible to make our environments inclusive

·  Use person first instead of identity first language 

· Person first language emphasizes the person before the disability: “person who is blind” or “people with spinal cord injuries”  

· Identity first language puts the disability first in the description: “disabled” or “autistic” 

·  Understand how seemingly harmless terms, like “lame,” strip people of their personhood

·  Look around your community and the places you frequent. If accommodations for people with disabilities are not in place, ask the shop owner, mall manager and/or your elected officials to install them

Birthdays and Anniversaries

Did you know…

Malicious phishing attempts are the biggest security threat to KYCC?

To catch some of the phish, we use Proofpoint to net both known and unknown threats.

When Proofpoint is uncertain whether an email is spam, it will send it to you a quarantine message.

You can block the message and sender or preview it safely in quarantine.

Or you can release it from quarantine and into your inbox, or even release it and approve the sender, so they bypass the quarantine next time.

You can also sign in to your account and see your blocked sender and approved sender lists. Some of it is hard to read, but it’s there for you.

Now you know!

Vast vs Specific

Try to fit in every general and conceptual detail when describing a very big concept and it’s likely that we’ll be confused. When you’re intent on explaining all of it, we glaze over.

Consider switching gears and sharing the most specific possible example with impact and humanity instead.

If we’re sold on where you’re going, we’ll probably spend the time to learn how to get there.

–          Seth’s Blog