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KOREATOWN YOUTH + COMMUNITY CENTER ANNUAL REPORT 2O2O CELEBRATING 45 YEARS IN KOREATOWN KOREATOWN YOUTH + COMMUNITY CENTER ANNUAL REPORT 2O2O KOREATOWN YOUTH + COMMUNITY CENTER ANNUAL REPORT 2O2O TABLE OF Contents 2 3 4 Our Mission A Message Board Of From KYCC Directors 7 8 10 Staff Green New Deal Census 12 13 14 Hot Meals Client Profile: Kids Town & Grocery Paseo Chapin Delivery 15 16 17 Youth Recovery Community Services & Clinical Economic Services Development 18 19 20 Environmental Koreatown Our Services Services Storytelling Program 22 23 31 2020 Finances Supporters Volunteers & Partners 2 1 KOREATOWN YOUTH + COMMUNITY CENTER ANNUAL REPORT 2O2O KOREATOWN YOUTH + COMMUNITY CENTER ANNUAL REPORT 2O2O OUR Mission A Message FROM KYCC KYCC (Koreatown Youth Dear Friends of KYCC, and Community Center) This past year has been defined by the many historic and unprecedented events that have shaped the world we currently live in. The challenges we’ve faced over the course of the last year have been an awakening for us was established in 1975 all, and has allowed us to reflect on different ways in which KYCC can best stand with our Koreatown community to support a growing through these times. population of at-risk youth KYCC was founded over 45 years ago as an afterschool program for Korean youth in the community. Over the in Los Angeles. Today, KYCC decades, our agency has grown into an expansive organization that now serves the children and families who make up our multiethnic Koreatown community. is the leading multiservice organization in Koreatown, When the pandemic began and our ways of living were forever changed, our agency collaboratively came together to reimagine how we could best serve the needs of our community members. Our community is supporting children and made up of a primarily immigrant and economically disadvantaged population, both groups that have been their families in the areas of disproportionately affected by the economic fallout and global health pandemic. THE MISSION OF KYCC IS education, health, housing, This year has allowed us to bring our agency together across all programs and expand our community partnerships, TO SERVE THE EVOLVING in order to provide critical services to those who needed them the most. With the collaborative efforts of our community beautification programs and community partners, KYCC launched the Hot Meals and Grocery Delivery program on April 6, and finances. KYCC is NEEDS OF THE KOREAN 2020. Through KYCC KTown, we were able to bring over 13,000 hot meals and groceries to the elders and medically-compromised in our community. committed to making AMERICAN POPULATION IN Koreatown a safe and This year has also immensely impacted many businesses throughout our neighborhood. While many restaurants THE GREATER LOS ANGELES and small businesses have had to shut down during this time, KYCC's Community Economic Development has beautiful place to live AREA AS WELL AS THE been able to provide over $300 million in financial assistance to almost 500 local business owners in support of the many neighborhood small businesses that make Koreatown special. While our work in response to the COVID-19 and work. MULTIETHNIC KOREATOWN pandemic is not over, we look forward to a brighter future where our children and families are healthy and safe once again. Now, more than ever, we are committed to doing all that we can to ensure Koreatown continues to be COMMUNITY. a safe and beautiful place for our community to live and thrive. KYCC’s programs and services Sincerely, are directed toward recently immigrated, economically disadvantaged youth and families, and promote community socioeconomic Johng Ho Song Jong C. Limb empowerment. Executive Director KYCC Board President 2 3 KOREATOWN YOUTH + COMMUNITY CENTER ANNUAL REPORT 2O2O KOREATOWN YOUTH + COMMUNITY CENTER ANNUAL REPORT 2O2O BOARD OF Directors HONORARY Council JONG C. LIMB / President TEDDY ZEE / Vice President XAVIER BECERRA HON. JOHN CHIANG President, Newport Partners, LLC Producer/Entertainment, Media & Attorney General, State of California Treasurer Emeritus, State of California Technology Executive HON. MIGUEL SANTIAGO HON. MARK RIDLEY-THOMAS FRANCIS PARK, ESQ. / Treasurer Assemblymember, California State Assembly Supervisor, County of Los Angeles District 2 PAUL T. KIM, CMP / Secretary Partner, Park and Velayos LLP District 53 President, Jamison Services, Inc. HON. GIL CEDILLO EDWARD K. KIM HON. HERB WESSON Councilmember, City of Los Angeles District 1 Executive Vice President & EDWARD PAI, PH.D. Council President (2012-20), Chief Lending Officer, CTBC Bank USA Dean, Institutional Effectiveness, City of Los Angeles District 10 MARK GONZALEZ Los Angeles Harbor College Chair, Los Angeles County Democratic Party (LACDP) FELICIA ROSENFELD HON. DAVID RYU Councilmember, City of Los Angeles, FARConnector FRANK LOPEZ District 4 MARISSA CASTRO-SALVATI Government Affairs Manager, Local Public Affairs Region Manager, Southern KAREN S. KIM Southern California Gas Company RAUL BUSTILLOS California Edison (SCE) Contract Recruiting Consultant, Senior Vice President, Community Relations, Panda Restaurant Group NITA SONG Bank of America JOHN CHO President, IW Group, Inc. Korean American Actor PATRICIA L. WATTS WENDY CHANG DAVID KIM President & CEO, FCI Management Consultants RICHARD KIM Director, Dwight Stuart Youth Fund Chief Executive Officer, Wilshire Adult Day Deputy City Attorney, JOHN CHOI Health Care Center Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office SANDRA LEE Southern California Policy Manager, Airbnb President & CEO, ES Advertising JANE KIM TED KIM INHWAN KIM Former KYCC Executive Director VIVIAN KIM Interim Chief Operating Officer, Former KYCC Board President SVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, London Trust Media CHRISTIE LEE Vice President; Commercial Real Estate Hanmi Bank JOHNNY KIM WONTAE CHA Vice President and Regional Mortgage Sales Lending, Banc of California Manager, U.S. Bank. Chief Operating Officer, WADE PYUN CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center DR. PAUL C. LEE, M.D. Senior Vice President, Chief Risk Officer and California Center for Refractive Surgery General Counsel, Altura Credit Union COOKE SUNOO SUNNI WON KYCC Founding Member and Former Board Member Principal Consultant, XMS Consulting BETTIE WOODS MICHAEL L. CHUN, CPA, APC Executive Director for Development, Chief Executive Officer, Michael Chun and Individual Giving, California Institute of Associates Technology JIHEE HUH Vice Chair, PAFCO; Co-Founder, Pete’s Seafood 4 5 KOREATOWN YOUTH + COMMUNITY CENTER ANNUAL REPORT 2O2O KOREATOWN YOUTH + COMMUNITY CENTER ANNUAL REPORT 2O2O STAFF The COVID-19 pandemic required our staff across all units to seamlessly work together and pivot our programs and services to continue supporting small businesses, OVER THE PAST community members, 45 YEARS, KYCC and our clients HAS GROWN INTO through these A MULTIFACETED challenging times, as ORGANIZATION we have since 1975. PROVIDING A VARIETY OF ESSENTIAL SERVICES TO BEST SERVE THE EVOLVING NEEDS OF OUR KOREATOWN COMMUNITY. 6 7 KOREATOWN YOUTH + COMMUNITY CENTER ANNUAL REPORT 2O2O KOREATOWN YOUTH + COMMUNITY CENTER ANNUAL REPORT 2O2O Environmental Services Green NEW DEAL Environmental Services Green NEW DEAL KYCC’s Environmental SINCE JOINING Services joined the City THE CITY’S GREEN of Los Angeles's Green NEW DEAL PLAN New Deal, a plan to IN OCTOBER 2019, make our city a more ENVIRONMENTAL sustainable place to SERVICES HAS live and fight against PLANTED OVER 1,OOO climate change. TREES THROUGHOUT The Green New Deal THE MANY pledges to plant 90,000 NEIGHBORHOODS THAT MAKE UP trees throughout the CENTRAL AND City of Los Angeles by SOUTH L.A. 2021. The official kickoff of the Green New Deal took place on October 26, 2019 with a Vernon Planting Event hosted by KYCC with the Office of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. 8 9 KOREATOWN YOUTH + COMMUNITY CENTER ANNUAL REPORT 2O2O KOREATOWN YOUTH + COMMUNITY CENTER ANNUAL REPORT 2O2O CENSUS 2020 In February 2020, KYCC became an official partner for the 2020 Census to help count the increasingly diverse and COVID-19 growing populations that make up Los Angeles. Koreatown contains one of the hardest EMERGENCY to count Census tracts in all of Southern California, and consists of a primarily low-income and community-of-color RESPONSE population, both of whom have been traditionally underrepresented in the Census. Partnering with various community stakeholders, KYCC planned outreach and awareness efforts throughout Koreatown and the greater Los Angeles area to help educate our community on the importance of being counted. 10 11 KOREATOWN YOUTH + COMMUNITY CENTER ANNUAL REPORT 2O2O KOREATOWN YOUTH + COMMUNITY CENTER ANNUAL REPORT 2O2O COVID: HOT MEALS & Grocery Delivery COVID: CLIENT PROFILE / Paseo Chapin When the COVID-19 pandemic began and businesses began closing their doors, KYCC realized that everyone in our community would be impacted, from neighborhood small businesses “IT FELT LIKE A SNOWBALL OF to the seniors in our affordable housing buildings. Bringing the agency together across all units, KYCC began its Hot Meals and Grocery Delivery program to support local restaurants APPRECIATION. TO BE ABLE TO WORK by purchasing hot meals to be provided for the elderly and medically-compromised in low AND HELP PEOPLE AND TO COOK income housing units throughout our community. AGAIN...THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THAT KYCC HELPED US IN THE MOST DIFFICULT TIME.” JOSE, CO-OWNER, PASEO CHAPIN 12,1OO 1,851 Jose and his mother Celeste own Paseo For many local residents, Paseo Chapin Hot Meals Delivered Grocery Bags Delivered Chapin, a Guatemalan restaurant in is more than just a restaurant, it is a space MacArthur Park, which has been in their that brings people together, where regular family since 1982. When the pandemic clientele could gather every week and the hit and they had to close their doors on community can feel at home alongside March 16, they left the restaurant with the comfort of a delicious, home cooked a sign that read, “We’ll be open in two Guatemalan meal. weeks.” However, months passed and they remained closed, that is until KYCC partnered with them for the Hot Meals 43O 27O Delivery Program.
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