KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICE CENTER GALA 2018
The Korean American Family Service Center
(KAFSC) is a leading, nonprofit organization that supports and empowers adults, youth and children to lead safe and healthy lives based on dignity, compassion and mutual respect. We are committed to preventing and ending domestic violence and sexual assault, and creating a violence-free society.
Our counseling, education and advocacy programs for individuals and families in the New York Tri-State area are provided in a culturally and linguistically appropriate setting. All of our services are confidential, bilingual, and free to the community.
(KAFSC) is a leading, nonprofit organization that supports and empowers adults, youth and children to lead safe and healthy lives based on dignity, compassion and mutual respect. We are committed to preventing and ending domestic violence and sexual assault, and creating a violence-free society.
Our counseling, education and advocacy programs for individuals and families in the New York Tri-State area are provided in a culturally and linguistically appropriate setting. All of our services are confidential, bilingual, and free to the community.
KAFSC PROGRAMS
• 24-hour Crisis Hotline
• Individual & Family Counseling • Sexual Assault Prevention & Intervention • Legal, Medical & Social Service Advocacy • Rainbow House Shelter Services • Transitional Housing Program |
• Self-Sufficiency Program
• Psychotherapy & Art Therapy Program • Hodori After-School Program • Youth Community Project Team • Unni-Hyung Mentoring Program • Community Outreach & Education |
72% of respondents in one Korean community survey, had either personally experienced domestic violence or knew someone who had*
24/7 hotline—the only one of its kind in the Korean community on the East Coast serving as the initial source of crisis intervention
60% of Korean immigrant women surveyed were battered by their intimate partner**
74% Children raised in violent homes are 74 percent more likely to commit other crimes against other persons than children who were not***
*Survey Report on Immigrant Homes,Chicago, Illinois KAN-WIN 2013
**Tjaden, Patricia and Thoennes, Nancy. National Institute of Justice and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Extent, Nature and Consequences Against Women: Finding from the National Violence Against Women Survey, (2000).
***Childhood Domestic Violence Association, (2014)
**Tjaden, Patricia and Thoennes, Nancy. National Institute of Justice and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Extent, Nature and Consequences Against Women: Finding from the National Violence Against Women Survey, (2000).
***Childhood Domestic Violence Association, (2014)