St Vincent Catholic Charities

International and refugee services: Refugee services is the receiving program in Mid-Michigan, through which refugees resettle in the community. Refugee services assist in arranging housing, healthcare, and community orientation for refugees. The employment activities offer services for refugees as follows: job development, placement, and retention to newly arrived refugees, as well as those seeking job upgrades. Supportive services offered include job readiness skill training, English as a second language (ESL) classes, ESL tutors, mental health services and linguistic support in applying for and securing daycare, subsidized housing, emergency food and household assistance, low income health insurance and supplemental case management for refugees who have resided in the US over five years. Refugee service clients served = 888. Immigration legal services provide to community members across Mid-Michigan, regardless of immigration status, a wide spectrum of low cost immigration services, such as family reunification, adjustment of status, citizenship, asylum and removal defense. Immigration law service clients served = 825

Child welfare programs: Foster care- foster care provides temporary family homes for children in the community who are victims of abuse or neglect. Supportive services are provided as needed. Foster families provide stable family care for temporary wards of the court with the hope of reestablishing the natural family or finding permanent adoptive homes. Total youth servced in foster care programs: 32 Adoptions- This program places infants, preschoolers, older children, and children with special physical and/or emotional needs with qualified families who offer stable, loving homes. Clients served = 33.