{"id":82287,"date":"2018-10-24T15:10:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T22:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/press-release\/kyccs-trilingual-mental-health-awareness-campaign-launches-on-world-mental-health-day-2018\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T15:10:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T22:10:42","slug":"kyccs-trilingual-mental-health-awareness-campaign-launches-on-world-mental-health-day-2018","status":"publish","type":"press-release","link":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/es\/press-release\/kyccs-trilingual-mental-health-awareness-campaign-launches-on-world-mental-health-day-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"KYCC’s Trilingual Mental Health Awareness Campaign launches on World Mental Health Day 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"In honor of World Mental Health Day<\/a>\u2014October 10, 2018\u2014KYCC\u2019s Clinical Services unit launched \u00ab#KYCCCanHelp,\u00bb a trilingual mental health awareness campaign for the Koreatown community.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This year’s WMHD theme is \u00abYoung People and Mental Health in a Changing World.\u00bb<\/p>\n

KYCC has provided mental health services to the Koreatown community since its inception in 1975. In keeping with our goal to\u00a0provide a broad continuum of high quality and culturally relevant clinical services for low-income families, our campaign is in three languages\u2014English, Spanish and Korean\u2014to target the immigrant population in our community who are unserved and underserved.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Our trilingual mental health awareness campaign seeks to raise awareness about mental health resources available through KYCC\u2019s Clinical Services Program. We provide behavior rehabilitation, psychotherapy, medication support services, substance abuse prevention, family-based case management, child abuse prevention and more.\u00a0 <\/span>We want more people in our community to know \u201cit\u2019s okay to reach out\u201d and get the help they need to lead a positive and healthy life.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe goal of KYCC\u2019s campaign is to take away the stigma of mental illness, particularly for immigrant communities in Koreatown that often hesitate to access services,\u201d explains Eric Ji, Korean Integrated Services Management Model Program. \u201cWe were very deliberate in making this campaign trilingual, so that it could reach our monolingual community members to let them know mental health services are available for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of the campaign, KYCC was fortunate to partner with\u00a0Studio Number One<\/a>\u2014the creative agency of Shepard Fairey<\/a>, a world-renowned artist well-known by youth for his Obama \u201cHope\u201d poster and his OBEY clothing company, to produce trilingual posters. These English, Korean and Spanish posters will be distributed to local business owners\u2014restaurants, coffee shops and small businesses\u2014for display. Members of KYCC\u2019s outreach team will begin visiting local businesses this month to explain the campaign and ask for participation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Studio Number One’s innovative art-based design, provocative graphics and original storytelling created images that would reach audiences across linguistic barriers. Using modern design and typography, bold colors and an uplifting tagline \u201cIt\u2019s okay to reach out,\u201d designers at Studio Number One\u00a0 and KYCC worked closely to create a concept that would be visually attractive to youth, while remaining positive and non-stigmatizing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is that those individuals who need help will see our poster, come to our website and ultimately get connected to the services they need,\u201d states Grace Park, KYCC Clinical Services Manager.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The \u201c#KYCCCanHelp\u201d campaign is being funded by the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health<\/a> and the Mental Health Services Act.<\/a><\/p>\n

Integrated Service Management Model (KISM) services are appropriate for Korean clients in the Los Angeles area who are experiencing 1) primary mental health conditions as well as 2) substance abuse and\/or chronic physical health issues. This program is designed to serve the multiple needs of families who are unserved and underserved due to stigma, lack of insurance and limited access to culturally and linguistically appropriate services.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Here is a Fact Sheet<\/a> on Adolescent Mental Health from the World Health Organization. Some key facts:<\/p>\n