Developing a Refugee Program

Speaker
, Program Manager – Community Engagement, Bilingual, Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Diego
, President & Founder, Ayana


Description
We will cover strategies for designing, funding and implementing a refugee mentoring program and driving recruitment, fundraising, and community buy-in using the model from BBBS of San Diego County's Ayana program which is tailored to the local Iraqi-Chaldean refugee population and provides assimilation/acculturation support from mentors who were themselves immigrants/refugees.