Due to the President’s Executive Order on Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid, the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) directed Refugee Welcome Collective to immediately suspend work as of January 24, 2025. In compliance with this directive, all RWC offerings funded by PRM, such as Lunch and Learn webinars and Sounding Board social learning spaces, are canceled until further notice. Technical assistance booking is also unavailable at this time.

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In-depth trainings for community sponsors, staff, and refugees paired with sponsors.

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Community Sponsorship Essentials

Prepare to welcome refugees in your community. Take our co-designed baseline training.

Co-designed by the Refugee Welcome Collective, Welcome.US, and the Community Sponsorship Hub, this training serves as a baseline for engaging as a community sponsorship group. Participants will receive both in-depth information around providing resettlement services and a broad overview of how to help facilitate long-term integration and success for newcomers. Pieces of this training are designed for individual learning and reflection, while others are to be discussed with the larger community sponsorship group. If your group wants to serve as a co-sponsor paired with a local refugee resettlement agency, then please be sure to contact your local agency for next steps after completing the baseline training.

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Community Sponsorship Building Blocks

Quick trainings for sponsors covering key topics relevant to welcome.

Centering Self-Determination and Promoting Self-Sufficiency

This course is designed to support community sponsors and volunteers working with a resettlement agency in learning how to prioritize program participant self-determination and actively promote self-sufficiency. This course takes approximately 20 min. to complete.

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Recognizing and Understanding Past Experiences and Hardships

This course is designed to support community sponsors and volunteers working with a resettlement agency learn how to recognize and understand signs of past hardships and to adjust their service provision approach. This course takes approximately 30 min. to complete.

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Translation and Interpretation for Sponsors

Learn best practices in how to access and utilize interpreters and translators. This course takes approximately 15 min. to complete.

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Building a Strong Foundation Through Boundaries

Learn how to develop, maintain, and respect boundaries. This course takes approximately 20 min. to complete.

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Addressing Role Differences and Ensuring Sponsorship Participant Input

This course is designed to support community sponsors and volunteers working with a local resettlement agency in learning how to address the dynamics between sponsors, volunteers, and sponsorship participants. This course takes approximately 20 min. to complete.

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Ready, Set, Launch: Training for Designing and Managing a Co-Sponsorship Program

Get tools, resources, and examples to create and manage quality community sponsorship programs.

This in-depth training provides local and national resettlement staff with a variety of tools and resources needed to set up, manage, and evaluate community sponsorship programs at the local and national levels.

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Documentation and Benefits

Newcomers and sponsors can learn about important documentation and key benefits, plus how to apply for them.

This series of video tutorials introduces documentation and benefits available to refugee newcomers, why they are important, how to apply for them, and how sponsors can provide support in the process.

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Moving From Individual and Small Group Welcoming to a Whole-of-Community Approach

Learn how to move your local immigrant engagement and participation efforts from individual or small group welcoming to a whole-of-community approach.

Through this training developed with Welcoming America, individuals and sponsor groups will build upon their experience participating in community sponsorship and other efforts supporting the welcoming of immigrants in their community. Bolstered by the framework of the Welcoming Standard, participants will learn how to utilize a whole-of-community approach in order to deepen and expand local welcoming work to create a resilient welcoming infrastructure throughout your local community.

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COMMUNITY SPONSORS

Community Sponsorship Essentials

This training serves as a baseline for engaging as a community sponsorship group. Participants will receive both in-depth information around providing resettlement services and a broad overview of how to help facilitate long-term integration and success for newcomers.
LOCAL COMMUNITY SPONSORSHIP STAFF

How to and key considerations for setting up and managing a co-sponsorship program

This training is designed for local-level resettlement staff tasked with setting up, updating, or expanding co-sponsorship programs. The training covers five main phases of a co-sponsorship program development and provides participants with key considerations and tools to use each step of the way.
UNIVERSITY OR COLLEGE STUDENTS, FACULTY, STAFF, ALUMNI

Mobilizing University Resources for Welcome: How to Make Your Campus a Resettlement Campus

Mobilizing higher education institutional resources is an innovative way to both welcome refugees and provide valuable learning experiences for students. Join Every Campus A Refuge (ECAR) to explore the ins and outs of establishing a “Resettlement Campus” – i.e. a higher education institution that provides refugees with temporary housing and community integration support through transformative curricular and co-curricular efforts.
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Do you need specific training for your community sponsorship group or staff?

Refugee Welcome Collective can work with you to develop training that meets your needs.

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Resources for Refugees

A video series with practical advice for newcomers in community sponsorship. We know that the most valuable knowledge comes from those with lived experience.

Opportunities to Engage

Join our monthly Lunch and Learn or sign up for a Sounding Board Social Learning Space.

Request Technical Assistance

Need individualized support or have questions? Request technical assistance and our community sponsorship experts will work with you to address your needs.
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