Về Liên minh các cộng đồng liên Á (UPAC)

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UPAC được thành lập vào năm 1974 nhằm cải thiện phúc lợi chung và giáo dục cho cộng đồng người Châu Á, người dân đảo Thái Bình Dương và các cộng đồng dân tộc khác ở Quận San Diego.

Founding Executive Director Beverly Yip and six leaders of the Asian and Pacific Islander (API) communities (Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Samoan, and Guamanian) united and pioneered the way for UPAC’s first City of San Diego grant. Using these funds, they established a cultural adjustment and language assistance program to ease access to community resources. At that time, no single Asian group was large enough or vocal enough to pursue the basic services desperately needed by its impoverished, ill, elderly, and limited-English speaking members.

As refugees from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia began arriving in San Diego with multiple health, behavioral health, educational and housing needs, UPAC developed culturally and linguistically appropriate programs to address their special needs and emerged as the only bilingual, bi-cultural, multi-service agency for San Diego’s Asian populations. For the first 16 years, Executive Director Beverly Yip provided unwavering commitment and leadership.