VISION
The center of sharing happiness where community delivers love and hope to women in need, through the hearts filled with caring for neighbors and serving the community.Create a caring community through shelter operation, provide high quality social services, foster the potential for independence of women in need, and build a community of care and service.
Values
As a faith-based, women-led initiative, the Women In Need Center of New York is a crisis social services and shelter that serves Asian American single/divorced mothers with children in crisis of domestic violence, sexual assault, mental/physical disability, and homelessness. More than 50% of those admitted into the shelter are domestic violence victims, holding neither permanent residency nor U.S. citizenship. Therefore, our services reach out to the most vulnerable of the Asian community in the New York metro area the women and children who are marginalized and voiceless victims of violence at home, silenced due to language barriers and fear of deportation.
History
The early beginnings of the Women In Need Center began through the joint support of the Rainbow Church, a United Methodist Mission, and Free France Chong Campaign in 1993. The Rainbow Church existed as a faith-based community for a handful of the estimated 200,000 Korean “War brides” married to former U.S. military servicemen. These women were the foremost pioneers of the Korean immigrant history but due to the cultural stigma held of interracial marriage, became ostracized and marginalized by both Korean and American society. The political campaign of Free France Chong was a perfect example of this existing problem- that interracially married Asian women often suffered abuse, incarceration, and economic exploitation with no outlet to seek for help in way familiar to them.
Board of Directors Eun Sook Bang Chair, Physician
Chul Kim Vice Chair, CPA
Dohyung Kim General Affairs, Physical Therapist
HyunJoo Choi Secretary
Jong Won Yom, Chiropractor
Grace Ji, Beauty Salon proprietor Consultant
Daniel Park, IT Specialist
Jung Seok Chang,Insurance Agency
EunKyo Kim, New Bank Branch Manager
Kyung Soo Choi, Forever Together
Thomas Shin
Ji-Yoon Lee, Vitex LLC, Administrative associate
Mimi Hwang, Elmhurst Hospital Nurse
Ki Nam Han, Honest & Quality Corp. President
JooHwan Lee, Joeun Entertainment. CEO.
Seung Jae Im
Gary Park, Lawyer
Staff
Eun Kyung Kim, Executive Director
Saenam Kim, Case Worker
Faith BoKyung Kim, Program Director
Ji Eun Lee, Financial Director
Heeyoung Kim, Art therapist
The center of sharing happiness where community delivers love and hope to women in need, through the hearts filled with caring for neighbors and serving the community.Create a caring community through shelter operation, provide high quality social services, foster the potential for independence of women in need, and build a community of care and service.
Values
As a faith-based, women-led initiative, the Women In Need Center of New York is a crisis social services and shelter that serves Asian American single/divorced mothers with children in crisis of domestic violence, sexual assault, mental/physical disability, and homelessness. More than 50% of those admitted into the shelter are domestic violence victims, holding neither permanent residency nor U.S. citizenship. Therefore, our services reach out to the most vulnerable of the Asian community in the New York metro area the women and children who are marginalized and voiceless victims of violence at home, silenced due to language barriers and fear of deportation.
History
The early beginnings of the Women In Need Center began through the joint support of the Rainbow Church, a United Methodist Mission, and Free France Chong Campaign in 1993. The Rainbow Church existed as a faith-based community for a handful of the estimated 200,000 Korean “War brides” married to former U.S. military servicemen. These women were the foremost pioneers of the Korean immigrant history but due to the cultural stigma held of interracial marriage, became ostracized and marginalized by both Korean and American society. The political campaign of Free France Chong was a perfect example of this existing problem- that interracially married Asian women often suffered abuse, incarceration, and economic exploitation with no outlet to seek for help in way familiar to them.
Board of Directors Eun Sook Bang Chair, Physician
Chul Kim Vice Chair, CPA
Dohyung Kim General Affairs, Physical Therapist
HyunJoo Choi Secretary
Jong Won Yom, Chiropractor
Grace Ji, Beauty Salon proprietor Consultant
Daniel Park, IT Specialist
Jung Seok Chang,Insurance Agency
EunKyo Kim, New Bank Branch Manager
Kyung Soo Choi, Forever Together
Thomas Shin
Ji-Yoon Lee, Vitex LLC, Administrative associate
Mimi Hwang, Elmhurst Hospital Nurse
Ki Nam Han, Honest & Quality Corp. President
JooHwan Lee, Joeun Entertainment. CEO.
Seung Jae Im
Gary Park, Lawyer
Staff
Eun Kyung Kim, Executive Director
Saenam Kim, Case Worker
Faith BoKyung Kim, Program Director
Ji Eun Lee, Financial Director
Heeyoung Kim, Art therapist
