SIPA LA

SIPA LA is a nonprofit organization serving the Los Angeles Filipino community through programming, mental health services, trainings, immigration services, and more. I currently volunteer as a facilitator for SIPA’s Walang Hiya, Without Shame, youth program serving high school students at Ted K. Tajima High School in Historic Filipino Town. The mental health curriculum seeks to normalize help-seeking behavior, self-awareness on unhealthy coping mechanisms, gain the knowledge to maintain healthy and well lives, and to educate about the history of generational traumas and colonialism.