Champion Awards

The Champion Awards are given to a service professionals or volunteers who have contributed significantly to the advancement of refugee resettlement and the betterment of refugees’ lives in Idaho. The purpose of the Champions Award is to annually recognize outstanding humanitarian contributions to refugee resettlement in Idaho, to advance the following principles:

• Outstanding contributions that aid refugees in Idaho.
•  Advancing the highest standards of performance in serving refugees.
• To enhance appreciation of refugee resettlement efforts and the opportunities and responsibilities that they represent.

Eligible Nominees: 
An individual whose work in the aforementioned capacity is evident through service in one of the following areas:

• Public or private sector
• Elected office
• Volunteerism

 
Guiding Principles
Nominees must have verifiable achievement in contributing to the betterment of refugee resettlement and the betterment of refugees’ lives as reflected by one or more of the following:

• Remarkable contribution of time with positive effect for refugees.
• Notable contributions to improving community relations, practices, equal access, or customs to better welcome, include, or serve refugees.
• Influencing laws or policies that advance refugee rescue and resettlement.
• Major accomplishments in helping at-risk refugees, such as single parents, youth, elders, or disenfranchised refugees.
• A distinguished role in delivering services to refugees.  Some examples include, resource development, housing solutions, improved health services, educational opportunities, successful social adjustment strategies, economic advancement, improved ethnic community support, and leadership development

Success & Integration Awards

The Refugee Success & Integration Award is given to an individual who arrived in the US as a refugee and has demonstrated outstanding success in at least one of the following areas:

• Broad community involvement, leadership, organizing, and other public efforts that help increase awareness of, and improve services to, the larger refugee community.
• Job retention, promotion, business ownership, and other ways that contribute the local economy.
• In any other ways not listed here that make an individual stand out in positively ways that benefit him/herself, the refugee community, and the community at large.

Eligible Nominees:
Any individual who has arrived in the US as a refugee.
 
Guiding Principles
Nominees must have verifiable achievement in integration and success in the US. Although loosely defined to capture all the different ways refugees contribute to our society, we are generally looking for nominees who: 

• Are committed to the healthy and positive resettlement of future refugees
• Has demonstrated positive community involvement that improves the lives, relationships, and diversity of Idaho.
• Have created businesses and jobs
• Have overcome significant obstacles to obtain education, job promotion, etc.
• Is integral in maintaining a positive outlook on resettlement, for refugees and the community at large.