"Transforming Orange County" Report by Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Orange County and UCI School of Social Sciences Featured in LA Times

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On January 25th, 2018, Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Orange County and UCI School of Social Sciences Assets released a first-of-its-kind report titled “Transforming Orange County: Assets and Needs of Asian Americans & Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.” This first-ever comprehensive report examined the assets and needs of OC’s Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities, which now comprises 21% of Orange County’s 3 million residents. The full report is over 200 pages and covers 6 substantive subject areas - from health care and economic development to political participation and housing issues and can be found here:  https://transformingoc.advancingjustice-oc.org/. The Long Family Foundation was proud to be a funder of this research project.

Additionally, the report was featured in the Los Angeles Times on February 1st, 2018; the article by Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil can be found here: http://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-wknd-et-asian-americans-report-20180201-story.html.

Vivian Long