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Minneapolis |
612-338-5282 |
| A multi-purpose center serving the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood and offers many services including ESL Classes, employment programs, a legal clinic, a food shelf, and children’s programs |
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Minneapolis |
612-721-0122 |
| Culturally-grounded services to communities in transition-- primarily Indochinese refugees, Asian immigrants and East African immigrants. Services include a culturally-oriented food shelf, job related services, and an Asian language "First Call for Help". |
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St. Paul |
651-254-4781 |
| Provides primary and specialty care services to a diverse population of patients, including refugees and immigrants who have settled in surrounding communities. Internal medicine, midwifery, behavioral health and health services from providers trained in a variety of cultures and languages. |
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Minneapolis |
612-626-1400 |
| Provides multidisciplinary rehabilitative services to victims of government sponsored torture and conducts research, training and education on issues of torture. Training for agencies and groups on caring for refugees who have experienced torture or war trauma, refugee mental health, and refugee youth adjustment. |
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St Paul |
651-642-1890 |
| Legal services for low income Spanish-speaking and Latino people. Services include civil legal services, legal translation/interpreter services, as well as legal services for Hispanic battered women, and resettlement issues such as immigration, permanent residence, suspension of deportation, political asylum, derivative citizenship, and naturalization. |
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Brooklyn Park |
763-560-4412 |
| Family service agency providing professional mental health counseling and family support services. Services include an adolescent domestic abuse program, counseling services, employee assistance program, family violence program, and a youth intervention and counseling program. Special programs have developed to meet the needs of a growing W. African community. |
|
Minneapolis |
612-342-1500 |
| Provides community advocacy and new immigration services, as well as culturally appropriate medical and dental services. |
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St Paul |
651-222-0757 |
| Adult literacy programs, GED preparation classes, and alternative high school for minority students in St. Paul. |
|
Minneapolis |
612-332-1441 |
| Legal representation for eligible residents of Hennepin County on issues of family reunification, status adjustment, citizenship, asylum, deportation, and other matters of concern to immigrants. |
|
Minneapolis |
| Gateway center for coordinated service delivery across county departments and with community partners for "new Americans". Staff speaks 24 languages and provides assistance in navigating the social services and health systems. |
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St. Paul |
651-793-8129 |
| Hope provides after school tutoring to grade school immigrant/refugee children, with a focus on African refugees, who may need additional education instruction. For adults, there are employment counseling and mental health counseling services available. |
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St Paul |
651-647-0191 |
| Serves the foreign born in their process to become self-sufficient US citizens, through interrelated programs of casework services, legal services, education and employment training, citizenship acquisition and intercultural activities. Also provides assistance with family unification for refugee groups. New Refugee Women's Initiative highlighting micro-enterprise. |
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Minneapolis |
612-692-8440 |
| Nonprofit organization established to address the needs of refugee/immigrant women. Business development support, leadership, and help with domestic violence. |
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Minnetonka |
952-546-0616 |
| JFCS is a multifaceted family service agency. Services include counseling;Russian speaking therapist available. Refugee resettlement services for Russian Jews. Jewish Vocational Services includes a refugee employment program and ESL for any refugees on MN Family Investment Program. Additional JVS site at 430 First Avenue North, Minneapolis 55401, 612-692-8920. |
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Minneapolis |
612-341-9845 |
| Volunteer attorneys represent no or low-income asylum seekers who have fled persecution in their home countries in interviews with INS asylum officers and in removal proceedings before immigration judges. Also provides brief advice, self-representation information and limited assistance in preparing asylum application to asylum seekers not accepted for full representation. |
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St. Paul |
651-917-5575 |
| Provides day treatment for adult refugees and immigrants. The program provides therapists or interpreters who are fluent in Russian, Vietnamese, Laotian, Hmong, Urdu and Cambodian languages. Recreational activities and ESL provided as needed. |
|
Minneapolis |
612-676-5237 |
| (See inserted booklets, 2001 Health Resources Serving Diverse Cultural Communities, for Hennepin and Ramsey Counties, for many more clinic resources.) Useful free publications and demographic information viewed via its web site. For refugees there is the Health Guide for Refugees in Minnesota, explaining the MN health care system. |
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Minneapolis |
612-827-5981 |
| A multiservice community resource serving south Minneapolis residents with basic needs and social services for families, youth and seniors: clothing closet, food shelf, housing assistance, & youth programs, as well as the life skills center which provides GED, ESL, computer and citizenship classes. |
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St. Paul |
651-645-0323 |
| The Senator's staff provides advocacy on health, education, housing,
immigration and other concerns for all persons residing in Minnesota,
including immigrants and refugees. |
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St Paul |
651-222-5863 |
| Legal advice and representation in noncriminal civil legal matters that are critical to the client's basic needs, and for which the client has a good claim, including: public benefits, health, housing, family law, civil rights, immigration. |
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Bloomington |
800-375-5283 |
| Provides information to aliens eligible for immigration benefits, naturalization of aliens, and other general services to aliens legally in the United States. |
