Community Service
- Funded and supports the D.C. Community Center that provides shelter & meals for the homeless.
- Established and operates the Culpepper Prayer House to provide a place of rest and retreat for local pastors and individuals in the community.
- Supports the Washington Metro Symphony Orchestra.
- Supports the Youth Foundation Center.
- Provides support programs for families with individuals with special needs and disabilities.
- Supports Fairfax County government by providing building usage for the Providence District staff meetings and the Long Term Care Council monthly meetings.
- Provides a Personal Care Aids Program in Fairfax, Virginia.
- Established and manages an extended day program for the elderly Korean-American community.
- Provides a life-skills enhancing program for neighborhood groups.
- Offers computer-training and ESL classes.
- Offers U.S. citizenship classes.
- Provides voter registration campaigns.
- Participants in the Senior Navigator Korean project which provides translation of information into Korean for the local Korean community.
- Hosted a Medicare Part D prescription drug campaign targeting Asian-Americans. About 400 Asian-Americans attended this meeting with Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt present to discuss the Medicare D prescription drug program.
- In April 2006, KCPC played a major role in hosting the "Increasing Awareness of Medicare D Program Benefit" at the NVCC campus, Annandale, VA. In attendance were President George W. Bush, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and over 400 Asian-Americans.
- KCPC's Senior Center was selected as a training site for online Medicare education beginning in May 2007.
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