{"id":82441,"date":"2016-08-26T13:28:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T20:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/press-release\/aapi-edm-deaths-huffington-post\/"},"modified":"2016-08-26T13:28:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T20:28:45","slug":"aapi-edm-deaths-huffington-post","status":"publish","type":"press-release","link":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/es\/press-release\/aapi-edm-deaths-huffington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"AAPI EDM Deaths in Huffington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KYCC Prevention Education Community Organizer Vince Leus published an\u00a0op-ed on AAPI deaths at electronic dance music festivals in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/aapis-are-dying-at-edm-festivals_us_57aa5ef2e4b091a07ef80579\">The Huffington Post<\/a>\u00a0on Aug. 15. Leus&#8217; article talks about the disproportionate number of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who are dying at EDM festivals promoted by Southern California-based companies.<\/p>\n<p>Leus wrote the op-ed based on his own rave experiences\u00a0and\u00a0his subsequent work in substance use prevention at KYCC. His study shows that among 46% of deaths reported at EDM festivals, nearly half were AAPI youth.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abWhen we can better understand the culturally specific risk factors- racism, acculturation stress, language barriers, gender and generation roles, poverty, to name a few &#8211; that lead our youth to substance use, we can then begin to strategize more thoughtful approaches in drug prevention for Asian American and Pacific Islander individuals, families and communities,\u00bb Leus said in the article.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYCC Prevention Education Community Organizer Vince Leus published an\u00a0op-ed on AAPI deaths at electronic dance music festivals in\u00a0The Huffington Post\u00a0on Aug. 15. Leus&#8217; article talks about the disproportionate number of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77232,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,252,259,270,280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82441","press-release","type-press-release","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category--es","category-kycc-in-the-news-es","category-koreatown-es","category-news-article-es","category-prevention-education-es"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/82441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/82441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}