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19 people are interested
Become a Mentor to Immigrant/Refugee Youth!
ORGANIZATION: Culture Connect, Inc.
Please visit the new page to apply.
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19 people are interested
Are you an immigrant or refugee?
Did you grow up going between your culture at home and American culture at school and in the community?
OR did you have this experience as an adult?
BECOME A MENTOR and support a young person going through this experience!
The Go-Betweener mentoring program matches immigrant and refugee youth (ages 5-19) with adult mentors who share 3 important characteristics with them:
1. they are also 1st or 2nd generation immigrants or refugees
2. they are from the same (or similar) culture
3. they speak the same home language
This way, mentors are truly able to relate to the experiences their young mentees are going through. Mentors are trusted friends and positive role models who provide much-needed support and guidance.
**This is a community based mentoring program - mentors and mentees meet outside of the Culture Connect office according to their own scheduled plans.
More opportunities with Culture Connect, Inc.
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Culture Connect, Inc.
Location:
4151 Memorial Drive, Suite 207-E, Decatur, GA 30032, US
Mission Statement
To advance the kinds of cultural competency necessary for success in Atlanta, Culture Connect offers social, cultural, linguistic, and emotional support by developing partnerships between refugees, asylees, and immigrants with American individuals and corporations.
Description
Culture Connect, Inc. is a non-profit agency that seeks to provide a holistic approach to cultural, social, linguistic, and emotional adjustment to life in the United States for immigrants, refugees, and asylees, to teach cultural competency to American individuals and corporations, and to invite each cultural group to educate and learn from the other.
- Language Services: Provide interpretation and translation for over 60 different languages as well as training for interpreters.
- Youth Mentoring: Our "Go-Betweener" Youth Mentoring matches immigrant and refugee youth with an immigrant or refugee adult who comes from the same cultural background and speaks the same language.
- Education and Advocacy: While this program is expandning to include general "Know Your Rights" presentations and materials for the community it is now primarily based around language access rights for Limited English Proficient individuals.
- Intercultural Professional Collabrative: A professional mentorship program that provides cultural competency and professional development workshops for immigrants, refugees and American in the Atlanta metro area.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
4151 Memorial Drive, Suite 207-EDecatur, GA 30032
DATE POSTED
May 31, 2013
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Background Check
- Must be at least 21
- Orientation or Training
- Minimum 4 hours per month for 12 months