Local Partners

• A3PCON: Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council
  The Asian Pacific Policy & Planning Council (A3PCON) is a coalition of Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) health, human service, educational, cultural and policy agencies, and individuals who advocate for the rights and services of the APIA community in Southern California, primarily in Los Angeles County.
• Asian American Drug Abuse Program
  AADAP, Inc. (Asian American Drug Abuse Program) serves people throughout Los Angeles County. Programs have expanded to include water conservation, HIV/AIDS outreach and cross training, Drug Court Services for the Inglewood Municipal Courts, tobacco education, and a for profit business venture, MTC Construction. Much has changed since those early days in 1972, but one thing that remains is AADAP’s motto and philosophy: “People Need People.”
• Asian Pacific American Legal Center
  The Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) was established in 1983 as a nonprofit 501(c)3 and has become the largest organization in southern California that provides Asian and Pacific Islander (API) and other communities with multi-lingual, culturally sensitive services and legal education.
• Asian Pacific Health Care Venture
  APHCV is a Community Health Center whose mission is to plan, provide, advocate and coordinate accessible, affordable, culturally competent and effective health care services that targets underserved Asians and Pacific Islanders and offers services to all individuals; and to provide programs of community economic development for the benefit of low income API communities in Hollywood, the greater downtown area, North Hollywood and any other areas with unmet needs in Los Angeles County.
• Asian Youth Center
  The Asian Youth Center (AYC) is a non-profit, community-based organization serving the social services needs of youth and families, with a focus on Asian immigrants. Our programs enable those we serve to adapt and contribute to a multi-cultural society. We welcome youth of all ages and ethnicities. Our service areas include Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley.
• Chinatown Service Center
  The mission of the Chinatown Service Center is to offer education, health and human services to Asian and other immigrant communities, to enhance their ability to contribute to the social, economic and cultural fabric of the United States. Today, Chinatown Service Center is the largest community-based Chinese American health and human service organization in Southern California. With a focus on Los Angeles County, CSC offers a range of services through six departments. These are (1) Social Service, (2) Counseling, (3) Family Health, (4) Community Economic Development, (5) Workforce Development, and (6) Youth Development. Services are available in a variety of Chinese dialects, including Cantonese, Mandarin, Toisan, Chiu Jou, and languages including Vietnamese, Spanish, and Khmer (Cambodian).
• GCN: Guam Communications Network
  Guam Communications Network is a multi-service Chamorro community-based agency headquartered in Long Beach, California. Our mission is to facilitate increased public awareness of the issues concerning the Chamorro people and culture through education, coalition building, and advocacy. GCN serves as a network to connect Chamorros in the community while providing a means to interact with their homeland. We collaborate with other Asian and Pacific Islander service organizations in order to foster solidarity in our diverse communities and work together toward common goals.
• Korean Health Education Information Resource Center
  This corporation supports and promotes the well-being of the Korean American population and neighboring communities in Southern California through health, human, social services, and access to affordable housing. or the past fifteen years, the KHEIR Center has acted largely as a liaison between low-income, recently immigrated, monolingual/limited English speaking Koreans and available health care and social assistance structures in the area.
• Korean Youth Community Center
  The Korean Youth & Community Center is a non-profit, community-based organization that has been serving the Korean American Community since 1975. KYCC's programs and services are specifically directed towards recently-immigrated, economically-disadvantaged youth and their families who experience coping and adjustment difficulties due to language and cultural barriers. Since its inception, KYCC has striven to improve the quality of its programs, as well as to diversify its services to appropriately meet the evolving needs of the Korean Amercian population and of the multi-ethnic Koreatown community.
• Little Tokyo Service Center
  The mission of the Little Tokyo Service Center is to be a comprehensive multipurpose service center which can aid those in the community who are in need, especially those who are facing such barriers as language or cultural gaps, financial need or physical disability. LTSC's philosophy is that no one should be denied assistance if at all possible. For 25 years, the Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC) has been an important resource for the residents of a diverse community. Founded in 1979, LTSC is a nonprofit charitable organization serving Asian and Pacific Islanders throughout the Los Angeles County who are in need, especially those facing language or cultural gaps, financial need, or physical disabilities.
• National Asian Pacific American Families Against Substance Abuse Pacific Clinics
  National Asian Pacific American Families Against Substance Abuse (NAPAFASA) is a private, non-profit, 501(c)(3) membership organization dedicated to addressing the alcohol, tobacco, and other drug issues of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) populations on the continental U.S., Hawaii, the six Pacific Island jurisdictions and elsewhere. Founded in 1988, NAPAFASA involves service providers, families, and youth in efforts to reach API communities to promote health, social justice and reduce substance abuse and related problems.
• OCAPICA: Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance
  The Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance (OCAPICA) is dedicated to enhancing the health, and social and economic well-being of Asians and Pacific Islanders in Orange County, California. Established in 1997, OCAPICA works to improve and expand the community's opportunities through service, education, advocacy, organizing and research. These community-driven activities seek to empower Asians and Pacific Islanders to define and control their lives and the future of their community.
• OCHCA: Orange County Health Care Agency
  OCHCA is dedicated to protecting and promoting the optimal health of individuals, families, and our diverse communities through partnerships, community leadership, assessment of community needs, planning and policy development, prevention and education, and quality services.
• PALS for Health: Pacific Asian Language Services for Health
  PALS for Health was established in 1993. We are the language access program of Special Service for Groups (SSG) 1952, a non-profit United Way agency that provides innovative services to diverse ethnic minority and disenfranchised communities. Specifically, PALS for Health offers trained health care interpreters and translators in Spanish and 12 Asian and Pacific Islander languages. We work directly with both the provider and health consumer population of Los Angeles and Orange Counties.
• PbP: Project by Project
  Project by Project is a national volunteer organization of social entrepreneurs that serves Asian American non-profits in need by raising public awareness, volunteerism and capital. Every year, each local PbP chapter partners with a different Asian American community-based organization and tailors an 8-month long campaign according to its specific needs. By partnering with a different under-served non-profit each year and providing applied skills such as fundraising, marketing & PR consulting, event planning, strategic consulting, recruiting, and other assistance, Project by Project represents an innovative and uniquely valuable approach to community service. Project by Project is a 100% volunteer driven, 501(c)3 non-profit organization. For more information please email info.sc@projectbyproject.org or visit their website at the link above.
• Search to Involve Pilipino Americans
  SIPA's mission is to enhance the quality of life of Pilipino Americans and other ethnic minorities through educational, health, economic, and social services. SIPA also serves to provide affordable housing and a Pilipino cultural center to foster culturally rich, economically stable, self-sufficient, and active community members in Southern California. SIPA's innovative programs and services are facilitated through community-based collaborations and relationships.
• South Asian Network
  The South Asian Network (SAN) is a community-based non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the health and empowerment of people of South Asian origin living in southern California. SAN was founded in 1990 to fill a critical service gap in the South Asian Community, which traditionally has been underserved by public interest organizations, even by those focused on the Asian community. Together, staff and volunteers have established the only staffed agency in Southern California serving South Asians and have created a multilingual, culturally appropriate program of direct service, community education and advocacy in four areas: immigration, public health, domestic violence and hate crime/discrimination.
• SSG: Special Service for Groups
  SSG is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing community-based solutions to the social and economic issues facing those in greatest need. SSG has evolved into a model organization which is designed to provide service to diverse groups with maximum efficiency and impact. This is achieved by developing and managing programs which serve our many communities by encouraging their involvement and self-sufficiency. SSG believes that the needs of groups and individuals cross traditional ethnic, racial, and other cultural boundaries. SSG serves as a bridge between people with common needs to identify ways to pool resources for the greatest good of all.
• Thai Community Development Center
  The Thai Community Development Center (Thai CDC) was founded in April 1994 on the idea that all peoples have a basic right to a decent standard of living and quality of life. Yet, in the Thai and in other disadvantaged communities, people are living in substandard housing and lack access to basic health services, education and quality employment. Although the history of Thai immigration in the United States only spans thirty years compared to the immigration history of other Asian Pacific ethnic groups, it is considered a rapidly growing community with unmet needs. Fairly dispersed throughout Los Angeles County, there are high concentrations of Thais in Hollywood and parts of the San Fernando Valley. With the proliferation of Thai-owned businesses and shops, these areas have become Thai ethnic enclaves for newly arrived Thai immigrants. Reports estimate that up to 50,000 Thai Americans make their home in Southern California, the majority of these are new immigrants who have arrived from Thailand within the last ten years.