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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
 
 

One of the important sections of the report from the IWG is the section on 'promising practices."   Down load the report to get new programming ideas to support integration in your community
Follow the link to read the report:

Follow the link to read the report:
Exploring Refugee Integration

The long awaited second report based on site visits designed and implemented by ORR's Integration Work Group are available on the ORR and ISED websites as of June 7, 2010.  This is an e-publication only.

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.