The Catherine McAuley Center offers hope and opportunity through educational and supportive services that promote stability, skill-building, and connection.
Catherine McAuley Center, an affiliate of @USCRIdc, is developing a community sponsorship program in Eastern Iowa that will provide local community groups opportunities to prepare for, welcome, and support newly arriving refugees.
CMC is honored to be 1 of 17 resettlement agencies that are being awarded the Community Sponsorship Catalyst Fund from The Community Sponsorship Hub! With this grant, we look forward to strengthening our resettlement program & continuing to foster an inclusive community.
BREAKING: The Community Sponsorship Hub announces the grantees of the Community Sponsorship Catalyst Fund’s second round of funding! #RestoringWelcome https://t.co/AI8vnlZlZL
In the fall of 2018, the City of Cedar Rapids and key partners applied to participate in the Gateways for Growth program. Welcoming Week is part of these efforts and will be celebrated in Cedar Rapids Sept. 10-19. https://t.co/3uuIJ1skPK @CityofCRiowa@cmccr
Post-derecho, the Red Cross pulled up in hard-hit CR neighborhoods and asked people to load into buses—a "triggering experience" for many refugee and immigrant families.
Bridging language and cultural barriers is the first step to recovery, says @cmccr.
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President Biden signed a memorandum to increase the number of refugees allowed into the United States for this fiscal year from a historic low of 15,000 to 62,500. CMC welcomes this development.
Read our full statement here: https://t.co/1VXgHOOEHU
Iowa Public Radio recently spoke with Mak Suceska, bureau chief of the Iowa Bureau of Refugee Services, about his refugee story and how the bureau is preparing for the future.
Listen to the full interview here: https://t.co/nQyGQL9Cmd
Mari Hunt Wassink, a former CMC staff member, explored the topic of name pronunciation on our blog a few years back. "Every name is an opportunity to cultivate a welcoming community that embraces everyone just as they are."
Read the full blog post here: https://t.co/d4d2O2fKyP
CMC’s vaccine clinic was recently featured on KCRG! Pigizi Ruhanga, a CMC client, shared his experience of and reasoning for getting vaccinated, while CMC’s Healthcare Navigator Bonnie got to shine a light on refugee and immigrant healthcare barriers.
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"addressing barriers to employment, and creating welcoming and inclusive policies will put us on a course for our businesses and our economy to thrive."
Check out this guest column on closing the workforce gap by our colleagues at the CRMEA: https://t.co/DQJbxAXVF8
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A moving piece by the Linn County COVID-19 Mental Health Advisory Group about taking care of our mental health during this pandemic. Co-signed by Sara Zejnic, this column acknowledges the importance of mental health as a facet of our overall wellbeing.
CMC was featured in a Switchboard blog post about supporting refugee youth in their educational experience: https://t.co/HRul5Aeo7y
Through our RIS program, Catherine McAuley Center has been working to ensure all of our school-aged clients have the resources needed to succeed.