Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center

Specialties

The Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center (APADRC) is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that provides mediation and conflict resolution services to the diverse communities in the Los Angeles area, with a focus on the Asian Pacific Islander Population.

We strive to improve human relations and race relations by addressing complex, cross cultural community conflicts and their root causes with community partners through education, training, and development of new models and techniques

History

Established in 1989.

Founded in July of 1989 to provide mediation and conflict resolution services, the Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center (APADRC) is dedicated to serving traditionally underrepresented and underserved communities which face barriers such as language, culture, and income. The APADRC is the only center in Southern California whose service population routinely includes the often excluded, monolingual Asian Pacific immigrant communities. Although its anticipated focus had been traditional housing, consumer affairs, and business disputes that permeate the field of community mediation, recent events has compelled the APADRC to redefine its mandate to address the complex, cross cultural, multi-​issue, multi-​party community conflicts that abound not only in Los Angeles, but throughout our nation.

Conflict resolution skills in race relations and human relations are becoming more and more vital to daily living. As underscored by the civil unrest in April 1992, Los Angeles needs com

Meet the Business Owner

Charles C.

Business Owner

He began my career path by organizing Asian American students in the Midwest. He is the founder of a couple of organizations — Midwest Asian American Students Union (MAASU) and Leadership Center for Asian Pacific Americans (LCA). He spent a couple of years doing labor work before starting to work for nonprofit organizations. He is passionate about justice and equalilty. Although his work is mostly around advocating for the Asian/​Pacific Islander community, he believe no one is free if we’re not all free. So he believe in building multi-​racial movements that work for the good of everyone. He is passionate about doing race relations work that will unite people instead of dividing them.