Designed to rebuild, empower, and transition refugees by providing caring and compassionate services. Volunteers are available to assist in the transitioning of refugees in American society.

* Offers assistance and support to help people acclimate and access resources and also to help to become citizens.

Refugee Resettlement Services provides the following for agency sponsored refugees: housing, food, interpretation, translation, assessment, referral, social adjustment, transportation, cultural transition facilitation, and employment services. Also offers English as a Second Language instruction and employment services for refugees. Immigration Services provides photos, assistance with USCIS applications, and naturalization classes.

Supports the employability of those with refugee, asylee, or temporary protected status. The program focuses on employability and transitional support to life in the U.S.

* Provides initial refugee resettlement services that includes basic needs and support including:

• Securing and furnishing housing
• Food
• Clothing

* Provides a wide range of services to help recent emigrees. Services include: housing. employment. case management. transportation. legal services.temporary assistance.outreach.* Provides interpreting services and translation options for internal and external clients.

* Offers resettlement services under the United States Refugee Admissions Program.

Provides the following services to refugees in cooperation with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Federal Office Of Refugee Resettlement: airport greeting, finding housing and furnishings, orientation to new communities, seeking employment, referrals to job trainings and ESL programs.

Provides resettlement and post-resettlement services that help refugee and immigrant families integrate into their new communities. Offers citizenship classes, ESL classes, relocation moving assistance, employment placement services for newly arriving refugees, and case management to assist with obtaining immigration documents. Also provides a support group for refugees who are victims of domestic violence.

Program is designed to ease the transition of refugee children into the Buffalo Public School system and to empower parents to be effective partners in the education of their children. Provides mentoring, advocacy, counseling, tutoring, problem solving, school orientation, mediation, in class support assistance, parent/teacher conferences, homework assistance, crisis intervention, translation and interpretation.

Provides resettlement services for those forced to leave their countries due to unsafe conditions, including help with registering for English language classes, locating translators, finding housing, securing medical care, and applying for jobs. Also offers citizenship and ESOL classes. Legal immigration consultations and application assistance are available by appointment.

Program combines case management and career counseling to ensure that refugee households struggling to achieve economic self-sufficiency during their first six months in the US do not succumb to homelessness, hunger, and/or long-term poverty. Connects refugees to basic needs service providers and employers in order to minimize income vulnerability and attain economic self-sufficiency at the end of the federally mandated resettlement period. Works with the Adult Education Division of Buffalo Public Schools to provide free ESL (English as a Second Language) classes to refugees ages 21 and older. Incorporates financial literacy coaching and training into our career services to provide clients with the tools they need for economic advancement and a bright future.