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International Center in Bowling Green

Using a FOIA request I just found another government inspection report for the International Center in Bowling Green. Refugees have reported problems with this agency and a Matching Grant program insp… more →

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International Center in Bowling Green — 2 comments

Christopher Coen wrote 7 months ago: Using a FOIA request I just found another government inspection report for the International Center … more →

Tags: Bowling Green, Burma/Myanmar, community/cultural orientation, employment abuses, employment services, International Center in Bowling Green (Western Kentucky, language interpretation/translation, lack of, late health screenings, local officials, failure to notify

State Department Assistant Secretary of the PRM Bureau schmoozes with federal contractor friends — 5 comments

Christopher Coen wrote 9 months ago: The Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, Anne C. Richard, has j … more →

Tags: Ann Richard, Assistant Secretary of the PRM, Funding, local officials, failure to notify, ORR, PRM, Anne C. Richard, baseline, Federal contractors

USSCB – 97.7% of budget came from federal grants and contracts — 2 comments

Christopher Coen wrote 9 months ago: According to a blurb in the Catholic Culture publication in 2011 The United States Conference of Cat … more →

Tags: State Department, USCCB, faith-based, Funding, Catholic, Travel Loan Program, Refugees, Resettlement, Migration and Refugee Services

State Department Boosts Per-Refugee Stipend Again — 2 comments

Christopher Coen wrote 1 year ago: In 2010, the US Department of State doubled the initial per-refugee resettlement stipend to $1800 (w … more →

Tags: Assistant Secretary of the PRM, Funding, R&P, David Robinson, Federal contractors, Federal Funding, Refugees, Resettlement

Parts Of Tennessee's Refugee Act and State Dept's Visit To State Stop Making Sense

Christopher Coen wrote 1 year ago: David Robinson, acting assistant secretary of the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration appar … more →

Tags: Assistant Secretary of the PRM, CAPACITY, Catholic Charities of Tennessee, Cooperative Agreement, Joint Quarterly Placement Planning Meeting, Joint Quarterly Placement Planning Meeting, Legislation Issues, local officials, failure to notify, Meatpacking Industry

State Dept. Gave One Day Notice Of PRM Acting Assistant Secretary Robinson's Nashville Visit — 1 comment

Christopher Coen wrote 1 year ago: The State Department’s refugee office is going about its usual way of doing business by having … more →

Tags: Assistant Secretary of the PRM, democracy, nashville, Acting Assistant Secretary of State, david m robinson, Federal contractors, Population Refugees and Migration, Press Release, PRM

Did State Dept's Monitoring of Bowling Green International Center Overlook Problems?

Christopher Coen wrote 1 year ago: If you follow this blog you might remember reading about the experience a volunteer helping refugees … more →

Tags: Bowling Green, Catholic Charities of Louisville Inc., housing, substandard, International Center in Bowling Green (Western Kentucky, Karenni, missed immunizations for refugee students, office of admissions, rats and roaches, State Department

Live Chat with State Dept.'s PRM Acting Assistant Secretary David Robinson

Christopher Coen wrote 1 year ago: Today the State Department’s PRM Bureau had a live chat session on their Facebook page with Ac … more →

Tags: State Department, Cooperative Agreement, Funding, Assistant Secretary of the PRM, neglect, openess and transparency in government, PRM, Refugees, Resettlement

State Department Spokeswoman Says Resettlement Guidelines Don't Consider Crime Rates

Christopher Coen wrote 1 year ago: An article in the San Francisco Chronicle identifies the many Iraqi refugees who have been attacked  … more →

Tags: State Department, Irc, PRM, Iraqi, dangerous neighborhoods, oakland, Safety, San Francisco, Suicide

Chicago's Heartland Alliance made unauthorized expenditures, incurred questionable costs on human trafficking grant — 1 comment

Christopher Coen wrote 1 year ago: Human trafficking is “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons by … more →

Tags: Chicago, Dept. of Justice, Funding, Heartland Alliance, Human Trafficking Issues, invalid or improper expenses, department of justice, grant, Heartland Alliance

ORR removes immigrant children from Catholic Charities Houston shelter due to "sexual activity"

Christopher Coen wrote 1 year ago: The U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement will temporarily remove all the immigrant and refugee childr … more →

Tags: ORR, Child Protective Services, faith-based, Catholic, Houston, Texas, Children, Orr, Refugees, catholic charities

State Department guarantees funding for 60,000 refugee arrivals — 5 comments

Christopher Coen wrote 1 year ago: The U.S. Department of State has decided to guarantee funding to the private resettlement agencies t … more →

Tags: ceiling limit, refugee annual, Dept. of Homeland Security, Funding, NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations), openess and transparency in government, Raleigh-Durham, State Department, World Relief, Andrew Castle

Government agency & its resettlement contractor work to silence refugee's voice

Christopher Coen wrote 1 year ago:   Time and again when I’ve found refugees living in deplorable conditions and receiving sub-pa … more →

Tags: Sudanese, Congolese, neglect, housing, substandard, household items, missing or broken, furnishings, lack of, openess and transparency in government, housing, Australian refugee resettlement prgm

The ORR's 2012 Matching Grant Program — 5 comments

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: The ORR recently put out a message about the 2012 Matching Grant Program to refugee resettlement age … more →

Tags: ORR, employment services, Matching Grant program, employment/jobs for refugees, revolving door, retaliation, Orr, Refugee, Resettlement

State Dept. PRM's Assistant Secretary and IRC's George Rupp congratulate each other — 4 comments

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: I submitted a question for George Rupp, president and CEO of the IRC, for his interview today by the … more →

Tags: abilene, Assistant Secretary of the PRM, Baltimore, Buddhist, Children, Christian, Churches, furnishings, lack of, hindu

Australia tries American-style refugee resettlement, with shady private contractors

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: Slumlord housing in Newcastle, Australia Reports of a refugee resettlement private contractor abusin … more →

Tags: Sudanese, Congolese, Catholic, housing, substandard, Abuse Issues, household items, missing or broken, furnishings, lack of, late health screenings, housing

Human rights lawyer to help refugees in Newcastle

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: The Australian Newcastle Herald newspaper reported that refugee advocates have found a human rights … more →

Tags: Sudanese, Congolese, Catholic, Churches, neglect, housing, substandard, household items, missing or broken, housing, Australian refugee resettlement prgm

More on the Australian situation

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: FALLING APART: Diana Santleben outside a refugee house in Newcastle. – Picture by Peter Stoop There … more →

Tags: Sudanese, Congolese, Catholic, neglect, beds, housing, substandard, household items, missing or broken, housing, Australian refugee resettlement prgm

What's happening in the Australian refugee resettlement program? — 1 comment

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: For ten years I’ve heard rumors that the refugee resettlement program in Australia is better t … more →

Tags: Congolese, Catholic, neglect, beds, housing, substandard, household items, missing or broken, housing, Australian refugee resettlement prgm, Refugee


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