{"id":82218,"date":"2019-06-28T09:33:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T16:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/press-release\/peace-over-violence-teaches-self-defense-class-at-menlo\/"},"modified":"2019-06-28T09:33:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T16:33:56","slug":"peace-over-violence-teaches-self-defense-class-at-menlo","status":"publish","type":"press-release","link":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/ko\/press-release\/peace-over-violence-teaches-self-defense-class-at-menlo\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace Over Violence Teaches Self-Defense Class at Menlo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KYCC partnered with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peaceoverviolence.org\">Peace Over Violence<\/a> in hosting a Women and Youth Empowerment Self Defense workshop at Menlo Family Center on June 21, 2019. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peaceoverviolence.org\/empowerment-self-defense\">Women and Youth Empowerment Self Defense Program<\/a> is a course teaching assertiveness, verbal confrontation skills, safety strategies and physical techniques. Peace Over Violence believes that these skills, strategies, and techniques provide a person with the tools to successfully prevent, resist, escape, and survive violent assaults.<\/p>\n<p>Residents from the Menlo Family Apartments and Advancing Youth Through Community Engagement (AYCE) youth participated in this self-defense course.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish my daughter was here for the workshop as she&#8217;s had several encounters being harassed on the bus,&#8221; said a Menlo Family Apartments resident and parent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csh.org\/2013\/03\/grand-opening-in-los-angeles-menlo-family-apartments\/\">The Menlo Family Apartments<\/a>, located on the Koreatown\/Pico-Union border in Los Angeles, opened in March 2013. The building, which houses nearly 300 residents in 60 units, is a certified \u201cgreen\u201d building. Services are provided by KYCC at the Menlo Family Apartments and include after-school programs, life skills training, financial literacy and parenting workshops, and mental health counseling and treatment.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact Julio Barahona at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jbarahona@kyccla.org\"><span class=\"s2\">jbarahona@kyccla.org<\/span><\/a>\u00a0or call (213) 365-7400 Ext. 5615.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17209\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1814-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1814-1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1814-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1814-1-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYCC partnered with Peace Over Violence in hosting a Women and Youth Empowerment Self Defense workshop at Menlo Family Center on June 21, 2019. The Women and Youth Empowerment Self &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78225,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,202,217,264,271,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82218","press-release","type-press-release","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category--ko","category--our-stories-ko","category-ayce-ko","category-menlo-family-center-ko","category-news-article-ko","category-youth-services-ko"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/82218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/82218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}