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About the Idaho Office for Refugees
The Idaho Office for Refugees works to promote mutual understanding
between refugees and the larger community by sharing information,
encouraging social interaction and developing opportunities for refugees
to participate in all aspects of community life.
The Idaho Office for Refugees (IOR) has statewide
responsibility for the provision of assistance and services to refugees.
The IOR is a private sector initiative, replacing the traditional
State-administered program for refugee assistance and services. Under
agreement with the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, the IOR
endeavors to ease the difficult transition refugees experience as they
adjust to life in the USA.
Our nation’s
interest in offering refuge and safe haven to persecuted people informs
and guides the work of the IOR with local service partners. Refugees
arrive in Idaho from many areas of the world, forced to flee their native
lands because of the persecution they have endured on account of their
beliefs, opinions or ethnic heritage. Once newly arriving refugees have
been resettled, the IOR provides assistance and services designed to help
these new Americans become integrated into their communities as
productive, contributing members of society.
The IOR supports,
through contracts and cooperative agreements, the provision of interim
financial assistance, English language training, employment services,
immigration assistance, language assistance, case management and social
adjustment services in the communities where refugees are resettled. In
addition, the IOR works to promote mutual understanding between refugees
and the larger community by sharing information, encouraging social
interaction and developing opportunities for refugees to participate in
all aspects of community life.
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