Our Refugee Integration Services Team works closely with immigrant and refugee communities to create programs and opportunities that leverage refugee skills, talent, knowledge, and ambition to foster a more welcoming, resilient, and culturally enriching Northeast Wisconsin. We offer a wide array of services and learner-centered training to support immigrants and refugees as they navigate our community and develop the necessary cultural knowledge to be successful. All immigrants and refugees who identify as forcibly displaced persons are eligible for services.
Through our volunteer team and collaboration with local community partners, we facilitate opportunities to build cross-cultural understanding and lifelong relationships, leading to stronger social, economic, cultural, and civic connections. In the words of Pope Francis, “Integration is not ‘an assimilation that leads migrants to suppress or to forget their cultural identity. Rather, contact with others leads to discovering their ”secret,” to being open to them in order to welcome their valid aspects and thus contribute to knowing each one better. This is a lengthy process that aims to shape societies and cultures, making them more and more a reflection of the multi-faceted gifts of God to human beings.’”
In Matthew 25, we are called to welcome the stranger. Many individuals and families who enter the United States as refugees become engaged in our services to help them become self-sufficient and thrive in their new communities.
“Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household.” -Ephesians 2:19
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