Using Vocationally Focused ESL to Fast Track Workforce Development Skills for Refugees
This webinar shares the program design, instructional components, work participation, and outcomes of one intensive English language immersion program that focuses on teaching the vocabulary and the cultural norms of the workplace.
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Connecting Refugees to TANF Services in Minnesota and Utah
This webinar shares two States’ approaches in connecting refugees to TANF services. Utah discusses the collaboration and co-location between refugee resettlement agencies and the TANF agency in the State. Minnesota discusses their State funded Minnesota Family Stabilization Services program where refugees receive language assessment, build English skills, take work skills assessments, and secure housing, medical and basic needs services.
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Building Partnerships and Collaborative Funding Streams: Colorado Works and Colorado Refugee Services
This webinar highlights the collaborative partnership between Colorado Works and Colorado Refugee Services, with the goal of showing how collaboration can happen at the state and local levels as well as between TANF and refugee agencies.
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