February 2023

Check out what our programs have been up to!

Know your Council Districts & Elected Officials!

Check out this map to learn which Council District our KYCC locations are in and who your elected officials are. Click here for a downloadable PDF of the map.

3 California mass shootings force grieving Asian Americans to ask painful questions

Even as they grieve the victims, Asian Americans across the country are grappling with a new reality. Someone who looks like their grandfather, who traveled a similar immigrant path, is suspected of committing a singularly American act — opening fire on a group of innocent people, at a Taiwanese church last May, at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park on Saturday and in the coastal agricultural community of Half Moon Bay on Monday. Read more

February is National Cancer Prevention Month

The History Of National Cancer Prevention Month

National Cancer Prevention Month has been observed since 2008 and has been promoted over the years by various health and cancer prevention organizations — with the most notable one being the American Association for Cancer Research.

Important Facts To Know About Cancer

Below are some important facts that we want everyone to know about. A person’s health is their most important asset and that’s why we think that everyone should take a moment and look at the following facts. These facts should highlight the importance of leading a healthy lifestyle and making regular visits to one’s doctor.

·  Approximately 90% of lung cancer deaths in the U.S are due to smoking and/or secondhand smoke.

·  Nonsmokers who are exposed to secondhand smoke at home or work have a 30% higher risk of lung cancer.

·   In the U.S, almost 60 million nonsmokers are exposed to secondhand smoke each year.

·  The most common cancer in the U.S is skin cancer.

·  Most cases of melanoma skin cancer are caused by exposure to UV light from the sun or from tanning beds.

·  Obesity is associated with over 13 different types of cancer including colorectal cancer, endometrial cancer, and breast cancer.

KYCC 2nd CHILI COOK-OFF

Thursday, February 23

From: 1:30 to 2:30pm

Place: TBD (Possibly ES)

To enter please sign up on the Google doc

1^st Place and 2^nd place prizes will be rewarded!

National Love Your Pet Day

Send Dabin, HR Assistant (dabinlee@kyccla.org), a picture of you and your pet by February 21, (12:00pm).

We will vote on which picture is the “Fan Favorite” and the winner will get a prize.

DEI Corner: National Caregivers Day

This year, National Caregivers Day falls on Friday, 2/17! National Caregivers Day honors those who selflessly give personal, physical, emotional, medical, and hygienic care to those in need (nationaldaystoday.com).

Here are some facts about caregivers: 

• 34.2 million caregivers in the United States are unpaid (caregiver.org)
• 15+ million caregivers have quit their job in order to provide care for loved ones (holidayscalendar.com) 
• Most caregivers care for one adult, 15% care for two, and 3% take care of three or more (nicoa.org)
• The average age of someone caring for a person 65 years or older is 63 years old (Administration on Aging)
• 1/3 of these caregivers report being in poor health themselves (Administration on Aging)
• Caregivers 75 years and older provide 34 hours a week on caregiving tasks (National Alliance for Caregiving)
• Middle-aged caregivers spend 21.7 hours (National Alliance for Caregiving) (caregiver.org) 
• 39.8 million caregivers provide care to adults with a disability or illness or 16.6% of Americans (caregiver.org)
• 15.7 million adult family caregivers care for someone who has Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia (caregiver.org)
• More than 75% of all caregivers are women (caregiver.org)

How to honor caregivers you know: 

• Provide respite care (i.e., give the caregiver time off by stepping in for them)
• Educate yourself and provide resources: caregiveraction.org 
• Clean their home
• Provide a warm meal
• Gift with feel-good items, like lotion, baked goods, candles, gift cards to their favorite stores, etc.

How to honor caregivers if you don’t know any:

• Post to social media, using the hashtags #thankacaregiver and #nationalcaregiversday and tag @OfficialNAHC
• Donate to caregiver organizations, such as caregiveraction.org 

Birthdays and Anniversaries

Grandiosity as a form of hiding

A business that says its mission is to, “reinvent local commerce to better serve our customers and neighborhoods,” can spend a lot of time doing not much of anything before they realize that they’re not actually creating value.

A non-profit that seeks to create “fairness and equity” can also fall into a non-specific trap.

Far more useful to say, “we sell a good cup of coffee at a fair price,” and see if you can pull that off first.

Google claims they want to organize the world’s information. But they began by simply building a search engine that people would switch to.

We need a goal. But the more specific and measurable, the better.