Koreatown Youth And Community Center Inc

The community economic development services unit strives to improve the financial stability of low income residents by providing free tax preparation services and linking them to various financial capability building services. Kycc's asset and credit building program, and financial education and coaching services seek to improve financial stability of our clients. Kycc provides earned income tax credit outreach, low income taxpayer clinic supports individuals with tax controversies, rental and utility assistance. Finally, kycc offers a small business development program to provide technical assistance and workshops for small business owners in and around koreatown.

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.

Kycc provides youth services, kids town, and prevention education services. Youth services include afterschool programs for youth from 1st grade through high school. Kycc also offers a full-day summer camp at an affordable price. Kids town services include early childhood education for children ages two and a half months to five years. 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, and resiliency, as well as developing open communication between youth and parents. The program also discusses facts and knowledge about substance abuse and provides participants with 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.