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شعارنا
ترمز زهور اللوتس إلى النقاء والسلام والوئام. في شعار IRRC، تتقاطع زهرتا اللوتس، وفي هذه المرحلة، تشهدان نموًا جديدًا.
نحن نؤمن بأن مكان النمو الأعظم هو المكان الذي يتقاطع فيه أولئك الجدد في الولايات المتحدة مع أولئك الذين عاشوا هنا لأجيال، ويتعلم كل منهم من الآخر.
تعرب IRRC عن امتنانها العميق للعديد من أصحاب المصلحة الذين يحتفلون بجميع الأشخاص والثقافات واللغات والتقاليد، والذين يسعون معًا إلى رعاية لانسينغ الكبرى كمنزل ترحيبي للجميع .
تم إنشاء هذا الشعار لنا كهدية من أصدقائنا وشركائنا في Piper and Gold.
مرحبا بكم في لانسينغ
Greater Lansing has been privileged to host two organizations engaged in resettling refugees for many decades: Catholic Charities of Ingham, Eaton & Clinton Counties — serving families and single adult refugees — and Samaritas (formerly Lutheran Social Services of Michigan) — serving unaccompanied youth and refugee minors. In the early 2000s, staff from these two organizations moved to form a refugee service-providers' coalition with numerous other key entities, designed to broaden the safety net for refugees facing challenges in their resettlement.
Soon thereafter, Ingham County’s Power of We Consortium (PWC) began bringing together over 200 human services, non-profit, governmental, faith-based, and business sector stakeholders, with the goal of promoting systems-reform for local communities. When PWC leadership invited the refugee service-providers' coalition to become one of its then 12 collaboratives, the stage was set for the original refugee service-providers' coalition to expand its membership, create mutually agreed-upon goals and basic organizational structure, and begin to interact regularly with other service providers in the city.
One of the earliest decisions made by the refugee service-providers' collaborative was to expand its focus from those who exclusively served refugees, to those serving a wider cross-section of immigrants to the United States. Thus the name Immigrant and Refugee Resource Collaborative (IRRC) was born. Early successes included organizing community-wide English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes to assure availability of courses at various times, locations, and ability levels, and to make this information easily accessible.
Today, the IRRC is a network of over 50 stakeholders from the nonprofit, business, education, faith, public, and private sectors. Because we believe those most impacted by our work should lead our work, in 2015 the IRRC made a strategic decision to create an Advisory Council of New US Americans to lead the collaborative. This council, in partnership with the wider network, helps identify needs, optimize opportunities, meet challenges, and support Greater Lansing as a welcoming region for long term and new residents.
We thank and honor those who championed the work that brought us to this place, and we hold central New US American voices who help lead us and challenge us to learn and grow.
