{"id":82440,"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\/ko\/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>&#8220;When 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,&#8221; 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":77231,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,253,258,271,281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82440","press-release","type-press-release","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category--ko","category-kycc-in-the-news-ko","category-koreatown-ko","category-news-article-ko","category-prevention-education-ko"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/82440","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\/82440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}