Community Resources and Development
Targeted Social Services - Language & Cultural Barriers
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Salt Lake County helps fund these organizations, to help county residents overcome language and cultural barriers:
- Asian Association of Utah, for its Utah Refugee Employment and Community Center, which provides intensive services to refugees with difficult social problems.
- Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Utah, for special services for refugee youth at risk for criminal activity.
- International Rescue Committee, for its PORTAL program that conducts activities which integrate and acclimate new refugees to the area.
- Poder para Familia la Hispania (no website available), for its multicultural Learning Center programs.
- English Skills Learning Center, for its "Empowering Parents" program, which teaches adults English at the schools their children attend.
- Utah Health and Human Rights Project, to assist refugees who have been in the United States more than five years and would not otherwise be eligible for specialized refugee services.
- Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake, for its "Bridge the Gap" program, which provides a Spanish-speaking paralegal to assist with family law problems.
- Inglés Para Latinos, to increase retention among students in its English language classes.
- Catholic Community Services, for legal services related to its immigration program.
- Latino Community Information/Education Center, which helps the County's Latino immigrants learn about with informational and educational resources.
- Midvale Family Health Clinic, to help address primary health care and illness prevention needs of the non-English-speaking, uninsured poor in Midvale and Salt Lake County.
- Lutheran Social Services, for its refugee employment-coaching program.
- Salt Lake American Muslim, for its Salaam Refugee Social Services of Survival program.
