IMMIGRATION, REFUGEE & DIVERSITY PROGRAMS

Diversity Education: This program provides education, training, materials, and resources on cultural awareness, conflict resolution and valuing diversity.  Workshops are offered with a focus on professional staff development and the training-of-trainers, with the goal of improving the workplace and the delivery of services to clients through increased cultural competency.   The Diversity Project offers its services to social service providers, employers, local government, schools, law enforcement, etc.

Matching Grant Program:  An early employment program for highly motivated newly arriving refugees and political asylees, providing successful participants with a cash grant for up to three months, equal to or greater than a Public Assistance cash grant, as an incentive for going to work and avoiding public assistance. Participants receive intensive case management, job placement, and English language training. Ninety-five percent of program participants are employed and economically self-sufficient within six months of their arrival in the US. CAMBA currently serves one hundred and seventy-five participants from twenty-seven different countries in this program.

Refugee Professional Training Program: Through this program, CAMBA assists refugees and asylees who hold foreign licenses/certification to become eligible for employment in the U.S. commensurate to their former experience. CAMBA will serve more than 100 clients from a range of professional backgrounds including medical, engineering, and teaching. Each client receives an individual service plan to help them achieve U.S. licensure with services including evaluation of existing credentials, vocational English training, supplementary vocational training, test prep and enrollment, and assistance with U.S. licensure applications.

Refugee Resettlement:  CAMBA helps local residents complete Affidavits of Relationship so they can sponsor relatives who are seeking to enter the country as refugees. As an affiliate of the Immigration and Refugee Services of America, CAMBA provides acculturation education for about 300 refugees yearly who have come to New York to reunite with their families through the US Government’s Refugee Program. CAMBA provides counseling, advocacy and referrals to relevant health, social, education, and employment‑related services.

Refugee Services Program (RSP):  The Refugee Services Program (RSP) offers refugees and political asylees the opportunity to strengthen their English skills and obtain a job in the U.S. RSP offers English classes, employment skills training and orientation to the American workplace, professional training classes in customer service/retail, human services, career counseling, and job placement. Transitional Support Services are offered to remove additional barriers to employment.