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Global Refuge, formerly known as Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, [2] is a non-profit organization that supports refugees and migrants entering the United States. It is one of nine refugee resettlement agencies working with the Office of Refugee Resettlement [3] and one of two that serves unaccompanied refugee minors. [4]
For several decades, various cities and towns in the United States have adopted relocation programs offering homeless people one-way tickets to move elsewhere. [1] [2] Also referred to as "Greyhound therapy", [2] "bus ticket therapy" and "homeless dumping", [3] the practice was historically associated with small towns and rural counties, which had no shelters or other services, sending ...
The Refugee Act of 1980, which established the Office of Refugee Resettlement within the United States Department of Health and Human Services, developed a comprehensive program for domestic refugee resettlement, pinpointing voluntary agencies as a necessary and needed entity for refugee resettlement in the United States. [9]
Catholic Charities, one of Erie’s three refugee resettlement agencies, secured and furnished an apartment on East Third Street for the family. ... MCRC’s director of refugee services. “In ...
RAICES, the largest immigration legal services provider in Texas and a leading refugee resettlement agency, has said it's "ready to challenge any presidential actions that threaten equitable ...
Working with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement, USCRI provides newcomers with job training, job placement, one-on-one case management, a short-term cash allowance, and additional employment services—including English classes, driving lessons, and lessons on culture in the American workplace.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement plays a particularly important role within USRAP. Bringing refugees into the United States and processing their documents is quite a different thing from assisting those same refugees in living and working in a new and foreign culture. This is the task of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
HIAS (founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society [5]) is a Jewish American nonprofit organization that provides humanitarian aid and assistance to refugees. It was established on November 27, 1881, originally to help the large number of Russian Jewish immigrants to the United States who had left Europe to escape antisemitic persecution and violence. [1]