Community Resources and Development
Targeted Social Services - Language & Cultural Barriers
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Salt Lake County helps fund these organizations, to help county residents overcome language and cultural barriers:
- Refugee and Immigrant Center at Asian Association of Utah, for its case management services to refugees with difficult social problems.
- Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Utah, for special services for a refugee mentoring initiative.
- The International Rescue Committee, for its Refugee Citizenship Education project.
- Poder para Familia la Hispania (no website available), for its gang prevention program.
- English Skills Learning Center, for its "Empowering Parents" program, which teaches adults English at the schools their children attend.
- Utah Health and Human Rights Project, to assist refugees with complex needs.
- Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake, for a Spanish-speaking family law paralegal.
- Inglés Para Latinos, for volunteer support in its English language classes.
- Catholic Community Services, for its immigration program.
- Lutheran Social Services, for its refugee employment and citizenship program.
- Salt Lake Community Action Program, for its landlord/tenant mediation program.
- Bhutanese Community in Utah, for its refugee employment for empowerment program.
- Comunidades Unidas, for eliminating cultural and linguistic barriers to healthcare access.
