| Last updated on November 19, 2007 |
Refugee and Immigrant Family Center's Mission
is to empower and assist refugee and immigrant families by providing culturally appropriate and relevant services that will assist in promoting healthy and successful lives in their new communities.
Refugee and Immigrant Family Center supports local newcomers by striving to provide a comprehensive social support system. Our support services include assistance with community services, providing quality early childhood educational programs, maintaining effective inter-agency referrals, and by offering meaningful ESL and parenting trainings.
Description:
Refugee and Immigrant Family Center (RIFC) offers the Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP) to forty pre-kindergarten children living in the White Center area. RIFC serves primarily low-income refugee and immigrant families; however children are accepted from any background or ethnicity.
Our organization offers a Family Support Program to strengthen the parent's role associated with their children's learning.
We have created a partnership with Literacy Source and their AmeriCorp colleagues to offer ESL classes at RIFC for adults in our community.
RIFC is working hard to find the resources to set up a small computer lab for computer training, including online ESL and online job search support for our ECEAP parents and others in need.
RIFC has begun collaborations with ArtsCorp to offer fun and creative after-school programs.
History:
RIFC has been serving the newcomer population in Seattle's White Center area since its inception in 1995.
When RIFC started less than ten families were being served, we currently serve forty families with our ECEAP program. We offer two ESL level classes with over thirty students and hundreds of referrals.
Contact person: Luis Gomez, Director, (email)
Address:
Web Site: http://www.rifccenter.com
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