Refugee Resettlement Program
The Refugee Resettlement Program provides cash, medical assistance, health screenings, and social services to refugees resettled in Maryland. Services are available for the first five years after arrival to the U.S.
Refugee Health Screening
As part of their refugee medical assistance program, states provide medical screenings to refugees within the first 90 days after date of entry into the United States.
Refugee Employment Services
Employment services promote refugee employment and ultimately, self-sufficiency targeting success by the first eight months of residence. Services are still available to refugees for up to five years after arrival.
Refugee English Language Instruction
Employment services strive to place employable refugees in jobs within their first eight months of residence. Clients can access services for up to five years after arrival.
Refugee Youth Program
The Refugee Youth Project is an after-school enrichment program designed to acculturate refugee teens to appropriate behaviors and to help strengthen their academic skills.
For more information about the Project visit this link- http://refugeeyouthproject.org
Citizenship for Elderly Refugees
This program provides specialized English language instruction and U.S. civics and history content to elderly refugees who wish to take the naturalization test and become citizens.
Public Private Partnership (PPP)
Located at two sites in Maryland, the Baltimore Resettlement Center in Highlandtown (Baltimore), and the Suburban Washington Resettlement Center in Silver Spring, the PPP brings together the local affiliates of national resettlement agencies, local departments of social services staff and others whose aim is to help refugees become self-sufficient in their new communities.
