As the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s technical assistance provider for fostering greater community support for refugees, examining the degree of refugee welcome and ways to strengthen it across all phases of resettlement and integration is a priority for Welcoming America. The community consultation process, in particular, has been of interest because it is a powerful mechanism with the potential to accelerate refugee welcome.
In late August, 33 participants from diverse backgrounds and geographic locations joined Welcoming America for its second annual Welcoming Institute: Leaders Building Community Support for Refugees in Atlanta, Georgia. During this intensive, one-day training, participants attended interactive seminars around creating welcoming communities through contact building, engaging leadership, and communications strategies. Participants will continue to connect with each other through quarterly learning circle calls throughout the next year.
Access our brand new guide on how to create a World Refugee Day event that engages refugees and receiving communities members and fosters greater welcome for refugees in your community.
This message toolkit is designed to help people working with and on behalf of recent refugees to deliver strong messages that will encourage community leaders and policy makers to take action to support refugees in their area.
In this webinar, Welcoming America unveiled a brand new toolkit entitled Reframing Refugees: Messaging Toolkit. Guest speakers discussed ways to use messaging and events to promote the positive contributions of refugees to their communities.
23 participants from diverse backgrounds and geographic locations joined Welcoming America for its first Welcoming Institute: Leaders Building Community Support for Refugees training in Chicago, Illinois. Participants spent a day participating in interactive trainings around creating welcoming communities through contact building, engaging leadership, and communications strategies.
Watch this interactive webinar on finding the best ways to frame your messaging around refugees for all of the different audiences in your community.
The fifth video in the Building a Nation of Neighbors series provides an overview of how to bring together community members to address misunderstandings and stereotypes.
The fourth video in the Building a Nation of Neighbors series provides background on the Welcoming approach of reversing negative images of immigrants by using strategic communications.
The third video in the Building a Nation of Neighbors series provides context on Welcoming America's work bringing immigrants and long-time residents into direct, faciliated contact.
