 CSDR Immigrant & Refugee Resettlement Program |
Immigrants and refugees face common challenges of finding affordable housing, employment, health care, education, and social services, in addition to problems associated with adopting the new customs of their new society.
Still, there are no common solutions that always work. When individuals arrive from cultures where there are no civil rights, where women are oppressed, and where education is a scarce resource, it is necessary to be particularly sensitive to the unique ethnic, traditional, and cultural issues of each group. Drawing upon the experiences of African, Asian, European, and Latino groups, we seek to develop effective customized resettlement programs for immigrant and refugee groups:
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- conducting objective assessments of needs and opportunities;
- developing processes for training effective leaders or spokespersons;
- empowering those leaders, as well as the group as a whole, with support structures that facilitate the acceptance of community responsibility; and,
- creating the organizational, managerial, and fundraising infrastructure to deliver human services on a continuing basis.
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| The New Colossus |
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
- Emma Lazarus
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| Pilot Project |
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In coöperation with CSDR and several non-profit organizations, we are developing a pilot project to serve the refugee and immigrant populations in New Haven, through effective health care, legal services, daycare, nutrition, job training, housing assistance, and cultural acclimation programs.
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