SIPA opens wellness center in LA's newest housing complex | TFC News California, USA
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With homelessness, physical health and mental health
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continuing to be among the pressing issues in historic Filipino town
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the community is continuing to find ways to address them
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and one of the newest solutions is the Lucena Encore
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a housing complex and community space built on what used to be an ice cream cone factory.
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This was the Krispy K. Cone Company.
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Anybody remember that?
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So we'd wake up to the smell of these sugar, these ice cream sugar cones
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in production in the morning and my pop would, our pop would walk over
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and he'd knock on the door and he'd ask for any broken shells that they'd be willing to give him.
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They'd always come back with a garbage bag full and we'd eat them warm in the morning
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and it was a special memory.
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And to see what this has become over the decades
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and that we're not just getting broken shells anymore
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we're getting housing.
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We're getting wraparound services that's directly connected to the need of our community
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and to see that is really, like I was sitting over here and I was like, hey, you okay?
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Lucena Encore is a new mixed-based affordable housing complex in historic Filipino town.
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The project took about a year and a half to complete
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and is operated by Meta Housing and Foundation for Affordable Housing.
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The Filipino-led non-profit group to search to involve Filipino Americans or SIPA
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has partnered with the project.
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With them, opening its Hi-Fi Well-Being Center inside the Lucena Encore.
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This project brings 46,100% affordable housing to the historic Filipino town.
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We're incredibly grateful to be partners with SIPA
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to be able to work with the local non-profit that's rooted in this community
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and also makes back to this community is very meaningful to us.
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So, we really value your partnership.
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This project is also one of our first to adopt enhanced accessibility features.
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The project is such a great example of how public and private partnerships
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can work together to create lasting change.
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For the 51-year-old SIPA, this is a chance to reach out to more residents within the neighborhood.
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They recently opened their main headquarters with a housing complex down the street
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and have partnered with several other affordable housing projects throughout the city.
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SIPA's Wellness Center at Lucena Encore will be operating many of their physical
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and mental health services.
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along with food distribution and even counseling services.
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It's really important to have a place like this for residents of historic Filipino town.
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As you said, coming out of the pandemic has been really challenging.
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The economic conditions currently really do impact the most vulnerable.
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So, you know, opening up 45 units of affordable housing is really important
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in historic Filipino town where cost of living is going up tremendously.
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for us, our services, we want to be very responsive to what residents in Hi-Fi need,
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what even the residents here in Lucena Encore need.
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And so, we'll continue to keep listening and continue to respond to that.
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As a family doctor for the last 27 years, anything where a community organization
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is doing something for the health of a particular community is huge.
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This is a tremendous step for us.
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So, I think that, you know, we as a medical community
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haven't really closed a lot of those doors.
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We haven't really closed a lot of those doors.
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The quality gaps, our expectations for health is really, really high.
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And for SIPA to take this tremendous step in addressing health in a particular community is gigantic.
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And I'm very proud to be part of that.
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Information on how to avail SIPA's programs from well-being to housing and community events
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can be found on their website, sipacares.org.
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Steve Angeles, ABS-CBN News, Los Angeles.
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Thank you for watching!
