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State Department taking comments on “scope” of the refugee program

The US Department of State is asking for feedback about the size and scope of the US refugee resettlement program. A meeting will be held at the Refugee Processing Center in Arlington, Virginia on May… more →

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State Department taking comments on “scope” of the refugee program

Christopher Coen wrote 1 year ago: The US Department of State is asking for feedback about the size and scope of the US refugee resettl … more →

Tags: PRM, RPC (Refugee Processing Center), PRM, State Department, Refugees, Resettlement, Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, oversight, Refugee Processing Center

Resettlement and Isolation

Christopher Coen wrote 1 year ago: A single mother of a refugee family from the Central African Republic finds herself alone and isolat … more →

Tags: alienation-isolation, Central African Republic, furnishings, lack of, housing, language, Lutheran Community Services Northwest, Mental Health, Portland, Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization

Best Practices -- Placing Refugee Families With Other Refugees Without Agreement?

Christopher Coen wrote 1 year ago: This topic seems to fall under the “Do not do” section of the best practices category. According to … more →

Tags: Best Practices, Chicago, Cooperative Agreement, faith-based, housing, Karenni, late health screenings, World Relief, Inspection

Bhutanese families coming to school without coats or good shoes in Lancaster

Christopher Coen wrote 1 year ago: It turns out that resettlement agencies in Lancaster, Pennsylvania have not been giving coats or goo … more →

Tags: Children, Clothes, Cooperative Agreement, cws, employment services, faith-based, housing, housing, overcrowding, late health screenings

Part Three of Buffalo Rising refugee series

Christopher Coen wrote 1 year ago: Ariel Roberta at the Buffalo Rising newspaper released her last installment of a three-part series o … more →

Tags: karen, housing, Buffalo, Journey's End Refugee Services, Journey's End Refugee Services, Refugees, Resettlement, Documentary, Nickel City Smiler

Nickel City Smiler documentary debuts out of Buffalo — 2 comments

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: Today we found out about a truly pro-refugee documentary that CEP Films (Chance Encounter Production … more →

Tags: State Department, Burma/Myanmar, Funding, neglect, household items, missing or broken, karen, Safety, Buffalo, Journey's End Refugee Services

Refugees + old non-stick cookware - Do not mix — 2 comments

Melissa Sogard wrote 2 years ago: Refugee resettlement agencies seem to give nearly every refugee household old and worn non-stick pot … more →

Tags: Cooperative Agreement, household items, missing or broken, Safety, State Department, Human Rights, non-stick coating, perfluorooctanoic acid, PFOA, Refugee

Yet another TX resettlement agency neglected refugees – Alliance for Multicultural Community Services

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: There is a new State Department monitoring report that we acquired via a FOIA that documents neglect … more →

Tags: Alliance for Multicultural Community Services, beds, Burma/Myanmar, Burundian, Children, Cooperative Agreement, cultural/community orientation, post arrival, ECDC, food

Catholic Charities Rockford put refugees in substandard housing, ignored minimum requirements

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: According to a U.S. State Department Office of Admissions’ monitoring report recently released … more →

Tags: Burma/Myanmar, Burundian, Catholic, Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Rockford, Chin, community/cultural orientation, Cooperative Agreement, cultural/community orientation, post arrival, faith-based

New inspection report released on Catholic Community Services Seattle

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: We recently received a new batch of State Department refugee resettlement agency monitoring reports. … more →

Tags: beds, Burma/Myanmar, Burundian, Catholic, Catholic Community Services Seattle, Children, Clothes, community/cultural orientation, faith-based

International Institute of Lowell - USCRI once again caught violating their contracts and cheating refugees — 2 comments

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) has once again been caught short-changing ref … more →

Tags: State Department, USCRI, Cooperative Agreement, Iraqi, Massachusetts, household items, missing or broken, Clothes, International Institute of Lowell, Lowell

Useless basic essentials for refugees?

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: According to an article in the Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette refugees sometimes have little use for the … more →

Tags: State Department, Burma/Myanmar, Fort Wayne Indiana, Refugees, Resettlement, Refugee Resettlement Program, refugee resettlement, refugee resettlement agencies, ft. wayne

World Relief resettles refugees to Aurora — 1 comment

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: World Relief continues to resettle refugees to Aurora, Illinois (near Chicago). An article in The Be … more →

Tags: State Department, World Relief, faith-based, evangelical, beds, Chicago, furnishings, lack of, dangerous neighborhoods, housing

For refugees, 'tis the season of broken arms and legs

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: The approach of winter means that many refugees in cold states will be breaking their arms and legs … more →

Tags: Somali, Liberian, Burundian, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Clothes, North Dakota, Refugees, Resettlement

Deaf Burmese Refugee in San Diego Left Alone With No Referral to Deaf Social Services — 2 comments

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: What’s it like for deaf refugees once they arrive in the U.S.? The Voice of San Diego has an a … more →

Tags: Alliance for African Assistance (San Diego), beds, Burma/Myanmar, deaf, San Diego, SSI, Alliance for African Assistance, Burmese Refugees, deaf refugees

No furniture for Catholic Charities of San Francisco's Iraqi refugee clients

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: The Catholic San Francisco reports about an Iraqi refugee family resettled by USCCB’s Catholic … more →

Tags: Catholic, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, faith-based, furnishings, lack of, Iraqi, public/private partnership, San Francisco, State Department, Transportation

San Diego now the nation’s #1 refugee resettlement site

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: An article in Westlake Malibu Magazine and East County Magazine Refugee Resettlement: A Southern Cal … more →

Tags: State Department, Dept. of Homeland Security, California, Somali, Iraqi, rwandan, faith-based, employment services, Catholic

CWS & EMM's Bridge Refugee Services put refugees in overcrowded and roach- & rat-infested housing

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: A Burundian refugee family in Knoxville that was initially resettled into overcrowded and unbearably … more →

Tags: State Department, Emm, Burundian, housing, substandard, Tennessee, Bridge Refugee and Sponsorship Services, Bridge Refugee and Sponsorship Services, dangerous neighborhoods, housing

USCCB's Catholic Charities of Fort Wayne in only partial compliance with refugee contract

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: The latest State Department inspection of Catholic Charities of Fort Wayne shows that the agency was … more →

Tags: State Department, USCCB, R&P, Burma/Myanmar, Indiana, faith-based, neglect, beds, housing, overcrowding


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