page_title: Cambodia Town, Long Beach, California
section_title: Community Organizations
hierarchical_section_title: Cambodia Town, Long Beach, California / Community Organizations
caption_attribution_description: English: Fig. 4. A multicultural mural featured on the Homeland Cultural Center in Cambodia Town, Long Beach, California. February 19, 2018. (Pereda, C.)
context_page_description: Cambodia Town is the official name for a roughly one mile long business corridor along Anaheim Street between Atlantic and Junipero avenues in the Eastside of Long Beach, California. The area has numerous Cambodian restaurants, clothing stores, jewelry stores, and donut shops, as well as churches, temples, and service centers for Cambodian-Americans. There are many other businesses in the area, such as auto repair shops, that are Cambodian-owned.
context_section_description: Well-known community agencies in Cambodia Town include the UCC, Khmer Girls in Action (KGA), the Homeland Cultural Center, and the Neighborhood Services Bureau. These organizations work to empower Cambodian Americans and other marginalized ethnic communities in the surrounding area through cultural education, community assistance, and development.
  The UCC is a nonprofit social service agency that provides assistance to refugees and immigrants within the Long Beach community. Their programs include advocacy, translation, interpretation assistance, parenting classes, and youth development (Fig 9; Fig 10). For more information on the UCC, visit their website.
  KGA was founded in 1997 (originally named "HOPE for Girls") as a Cambodian American reproductive health and empowerment project for women. Since then, the organization has grown to connect with other Asian and Pacific Islander communities on social justice values and the struggle against age, gender, class, race, and sex discrimination. For more information on KGA, visit their website.
  The Homeland Cultural Center (HCC) is a multi-ethnic space that offers a wide array of cultural arts classes such as Hmong arts, Khmer Martial Arts, African Dance, and Micronesian Music and Dance, as well as general writing classes. While the programs cover various ethnic arts, the majority of program participants are Latino and Black youth and young adults aged 18 to 30 years old. The Homeland Cultural Center reflects the diverse ethnic demographic of Cambodia Town. The Center also confirms the business enclave to be an important cultural hub for a variety of ethnic communities (Fig. 4). For more information on the Homeland Cultural Center, visit their website.
  The Neighborhood Services Bureau is a city government agency which, as of 2014, provided the only Khmer heritage language/community language program in Long Beach. Their free Khmer Language Class occurs weekly at the Mark Twain Neighborhood Library in Cambodia Town. For more information on the Khmer Language Class, visit their website.
caption: Fig. 4. A multicultural mural featured on the Homeland Cultural Center in Cambodia Town, Long Beach, California. February 19, 2018. (Pereda, C.)
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