Koreatown Youth And Community Center

Geographic areas served: Koreatown, Los Angeles

Programs: KYCC provides youth services, kid's town and economic development services. Youth services include afterschool programs for youth from first grade through high school. KYCC also offer a full-day summer camp at an affordable price. Kid's town services include early childhood education for children ages two and a half months to five years. Community economic development includes free tax preparation, tax time savings, consumer advocacy and education, and financial education. The Environmental Services Unit provides free tree planting, tree distribution, graffiti removal, community clean-ups, and environmental education in Koreatown and Central and South Los Angeles. KYCC beautifies canopy-poor areas of Los Angeles by planting street trees and by distributing free trees to property owners through the mayor's city plants program. KYCC also provides graffiti removal and community clean-up services, free of charge, seven days a week, for Koreatown and Central Los Angeles. Through neighborhood beautification and environmental education, KYCC is helping to make Los Angeles a safe, healthy and more beautiful community. The Prevention Education Unit provides prevention education workshops by working with youth, parents and the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). These workshops increase community protective factors, including social and emotional learning, resiliency, as well as developing open communication between youth and parents. The program also discusses facts and knowledge about substance abuse, and provides participants the tools for building healthy families. KYCC also builds coalitions that address policies that are health-focused, including reducing access and availabilities to substances in communities of Koreatown, Pico-Union, and Westlake. The outcome is building resilient and empowered communities that reduce the rate of substance abuse and the harms that are associated. The Clinical Services Unit offers culturally competent mental health services for low-income children, youth, and their families. Individual, group, and family therapy is provided free of charge in out-patient, school-based, and in-home settings through contracts with the county department of mental health, county department of children and family services, and other funders. Services also include medication management, individual and family-based case management, child abuse prevention/intervention, and parenting education. All services are available in English, Spanish, and Korean.