{"id":82352,"date":"2017-10-23T16:06:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T23:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/press-release\/kycc-clinical-services-api-mental-health-conference\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T16:06:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T23:06:05","slug":"kycc-clinical-services-api-mental-health-conference","status":"publish","type":"press-release","link":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/ko\/press-release\/kycc-clinical-services-api-mental-health-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"KYCC Clinical Services at API Mental Health Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div>\n<div>On Oct. 6, KYCC presented a workshop entitled &#8220;Opening Doors to Health, Wellness and Recover: Korean Integrated Service Management (KISM) Model Program&#8221; at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.viet-care.org\/conference\">2017 Asian Pacific Islander Mental Health Empowerment Conference<\/a>. The conference was organized by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.viet-care.org\/\">Vietnamese Community Action for Resources &amp; Empowerment<\/a> (C.A.R.E.) and <a href=\"http:\/\/hhd.fullerton.edu\/msw\/\">California State University Fullerton&#8217;s Department of Social Work<\/a> \u2014 two organizations that share a commitment to addressing and teaching empowerment at all levels in service of individuals, families and communities.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;As an underserved or mostly unserved population, [Asian Pacific Islanders] have the lowest rate of seeking mental help and substance abuse treatment,&#8221; Viet-C.A.R.E. Executive Director Lorna Santos-Pham said. &#8220;It is our responsibility as professionals in this field to promote and educate the community on this illness.&#8221;\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>In accordance with the theme of empowerment, KYCC&#8217;s Clinical Services staff taught conference participants about how to overcome barriers when working with the Korean community around issues of mental health. They delivered their workshop to a group of 10 mental health professionals.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>KYCC underwent a competitive process to be selected as a workshop presenter to summarize our expertise in the realm of delivering integrated mental health, physical health and substance abuse programs to the community for the last five years.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We were eager to share with our colleagues some of the lessons we learned promoting mental health programs in the Korean community,&#8221; KYCC Clinical Services Manager Grace Park said. &#8220;We hope that our colleagues took away some strategies that they can use with the communities they work with.&#8221;\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Oct. 6, KYCC presented a workshop entitled &#8220;Opening Doors to Health, Wellness and Recover: Korean Integrated Service Management (KISM) Model Program&#8221; at the 2017 Asian Pacific Islander Mental Health &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77577,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,225,258,271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82352","press-release","type-press-release","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category--ko","category-clinical-services-ko","category-koreatown-ko","category-news-article-ko"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/82352","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\/82352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}