Wilson-Fish Alternative Refugee Resettlement Projects Blog

Virtually all career experts agree that networking within professional circles is an incredibly effective way to find a new job.  
 

Above: Bhutanese women spoke about their lives at Kentucky Refugee Ministries. Photo accessed from Kentucky.com. 
 

ISED’s Wilson-Fish (WF) Technical Assistance team is pleased to welcome Meredith Lee.  Meredith, a Senior Researcher at ISED, will work with me to serve ORR and the WF grantees in data collection and analysis and will also participate in technical assistance visits throughout the year. Grantees can also look forward to Meredith’s blogs on a variety of topics related to refugees, the economy, resettlement, and public policy. 

USCIS held an ALl - Refugee Naturalization Ceremony on Saturday, June 19 to celebrate World Refugee Day.  Jan Reeves, State Refugee Coordinator provided the link:
http://www.ktvb.com/video?id=96728804&sec=550837
 
 

Follow the link to read the report:
Exploring Refugee Integration

Friends, I just spent a wonderful day in New Orleans after a two-day visit in Baton Rouge.  Both resettlement sites are full of energy and good ideas.  I just have to tell you about the exciting eatery we visited on Thursday (4/29) in NOLA.   The restaurant is called Cafe Reconcile.   Young people selected to participate work on academic skills, life skills, and they receive training in culinary arts.  In short, they learn to cook, to wait tables, to stock the kitchen, and to act as steward to the nearly 150 customers they serve each day.   And t

From Darfur to sowing seeds for peace, Mohamed Mohamed reaches past the painful memories to his idyllic childhood in western Sudan, in Darfur - to the peaceful place.

The school is the brainchild of Valentino Achak Deng, whose flight from war is told in the best-selling book by Dave Eggers, “What is the What.”  Click on "read more" to  find the link to Nicholas Kristof's Sunday column.  You'll be encouraged by what Deng has achieved thus far!