News from New York, NY
Get the latest updates and event listings from the International Rescue Committee in New York, NY, and learn how you can help welcome newly arrived refugees.
Pashto Speaking Cultural Orientation Volunteer Teacher
The Cultural Orientation Volunteer Teacher will teach Cultural Orientation classes once or twice per week, using IRC’s established curriculum.
Refugee Resettlement Intern in NY
The Refugee Resettlement Intern for the IRC in New York will assist Resettlement Services staff in providing reception and placement services to newly arrived refugees.
Volunteer Dari-speaking Cultural Orientation Teacher
Cultural Orientation is a 2-day intensive social adjustment course for all newly arrived refugees which focuses on essential information for new Americans through content-based instruction.
It's Back To School for Refugee Youth in NY and NJ
The IRC’s Refugee Youth Summer Academy is a program designed to help newly arrived students understand and become accustomed to public schools in the U.S. The program works with students of all ages to thrive in a new culture by exposing them to American teaching styles and subjects.
POWER (Providing Opportunities for Women’s Economic Resilience)
The IRC in New York’s POWER (Providing Opportunities for Women’s Economic Resilience) program has completed its second training for women interested in careers in childcare! The program focuses on developing women’s existing professional skills related to childcare while exposing program participants to more formalized childhood development and education theory.
Corporate Engagement Opportunities
The IRC in New York is pleased to provide our local and national partners with opportunities to engage meaningfully and directly with our work.
POWER graduates
The second class of POWER (Providing Opportunities for Women's Economic Resilience) professional community interpreters graduated on March 30th, 2017.
ESL students work with MoMa!
Following a group visit to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), English students in the high beginner and intermediate class created artwork inspired by artists Enrique Chagoya and James Rosenquist with MoMA teaching artist, Shellyne Rodriguez.
Refugees highlight their culinary skills at the Bronx community garden
Clients participate in cooking demonstrations at the IRC in New York community garden in the Bronx and learn about healthy eating in America.
National Family Reunification Network Conference
In 2015, the IRC in NY began a new program to serve unaccompanied minors as part of a partnership with Heartland Alliance. Unaccompanied minors are undocumented children who have entered the United States without a parent or legal guardian and then enter the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.