Instituto del Progresso Latino Receives Major Federal Grant to Help Chicago’s Refugees

Lawndale News Chicago's Bilingual Newspaper - Education

Lawndale News Chicago's Bilingual Newspaper - Education

On Tuesday, Instituto del Progreso Latino (Instituto) announced that they have received a three-year grant awarding $250,000 a year through competitive funding through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), an Office of the Administration for Children and Families. This new ORR initiative program was launched to help refugees achieve economic self-sufficiency by obtaining the necessary credentials, education, experience, and job skills to secure employment in professional and/or skilled career fields. Instituto represents the only grantee for this program in Illinois and one of 17 organizations in the country. Illinois has 10,365 refugees who have been in the U.S. for five years or less, representing 50 countries including: Burma, Iraq, Dem. Rep. Congo, Syria, Colombia, Cuba, and others.  Instituto plans to work with the many dedicated refugee employment and social service providers in the Chicago metro vicinity to conduct extensive outreach and recruitment.

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