Training
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.
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.
Recognizing and Understanding Past Experiences and Hardships
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 30 min. to complete.
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.
Building a Strong Foundation Through Boundaries
Learn how to develop, maintain, and respect boundaries. This course takes approximately 20 min. to complete.
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.
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.
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.
Creating a Resilient Welcoming Infrastructure Throughout Your Local Community
Learn how to move your local immigrant inclusion and belonging 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.
Mobilizing University Resources for Welcome: How to Make Your Campus a Resettlement Campus
Learn how universities can engage in community sponsorship.
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.
Participants will learn about refugee resettlement and ECAR, why college and university campuses are uniquely positioned to support refugee integration, and how to effectively mobilize resources to do so. Participants will be equipped to leverage their campus and community resources to provide culturally responsive integration support while prioritizing the agency and dignity of refugees.
Upcoming Training Dates:
November 5, 2024 | 11:00 a.m. ET | Register
The minimum registrants for each training is 10, and the maximum is 30.
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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