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Many newcomers arrive in the U.S. with a wealth of professional skills and experience, but starting one’s career over again in a new country can be an overwhelming process. Career Connect is a new ̽����ѡ program helping refugees take steps toward re-entering professions they were forced to leave behind.

It was October 16, and there were over 280 people filling into SOMArts gallery in downtown San Francisco. This was GenR’s Force for Change event, where there was an outdoor bar with a DJ, and a huge gallery space full of tables of cookies and kabobs from Afghanistan, salads from Burma, and sweets from Syria. In a black box room off to the side of the gallery, there were huge photographs, propped up on easels, of refugees girls ages 8 through 11 embodying what they want to be when they grow up. The girls, who live all around the Bay Area, were posing as doctors, lawyers, and rock stars, in culmination of an empowerment workshop called The Vision Project, which was formed in collaboration with ̽����ѡ. Guests milled around, observing, eating, enjoying themselves, and then they were gathered around a stage in the main gallery.  This was where the speech was going to take place.

Denver constituents advocate for refugees with local elected officials

The ̽����ѡ (̽����ѡ) in Atlanta is thrilled to announce Justin Howell as our new Executive Director.

Ali Amry prepares to launch his food business with support from classes offered by the ̽����ѡ in Salt Lake City, including a Social Media Marketing Workshop series. Since then, he has learned about promotional email strategy and built out a social media presence. 

The ̽����ѡ opened its locally-funded office in Miami in 1960 in response to the Cuban Revolution and, over the decades, has served over 25,000 refugees, asylees, survivors of human trafficking and other vulnerable populations in South Florida. Due to nationally reduced refugee admissions, the ̽����ѡ ended its refugee resettlement program in Miami in 2018. Although its resettlement program concluded in 2018, the ̽����ѡ in Miami continues to serve the community by providing holistic, trauma-informed services to survivors of human trafficking and unaccompanied children and their families.

Fiametta “Fia” Brody is a recent graduate of the University of Washington in Saint Louis. She has been interning with the ̽����ѡ’s health team over the course of spring and summer, 2020.

Temple Solel Social Action Committee is helping newly arrived refugee families to feel welcome in Baltimore.