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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Ethnic & Immigrant Centers, Human Services, Immigration
Mission: To cooperate and assist governmental and private agencies to provide social services to refugees and immigrants helping them to become self sufficient productive members of societywhile maintaining their cultural and ethnic identity
Programs: Social services to low income refugees and immigrants:housing assistance and referralimmigration assistance and referral (22 refugees were naturalized)social service advocacy with governmental agenciesassistance to families# services 1511
employment services to assist low income limited english speaking participants in finding employment or moving toward eventual employment by engaging in job search activities while participating in english as a second language classes, skills training and other activies such as job search, job preparation workshops, and short term skill training (for example electronic assembly, sewing, custodial, forklift and warehousing) job related communication training, and job referrals, placements, and retention assistancetotal served-566
elderly project to help refugee and immigrant elderly overcome language barriers and obtain us citizenship. The agency also helped to empower elderly refugees for potential leadership positions within their communities. The agency also organized a field trip for elderly refugees/immigrants. Total served-75