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City of Evanston provides arriving refugees in Evanston with basic needs, including assistance with food, clothing, furnishings, housing, transportation, and job training, as well as services such as social service referrals and child care referrals. The Refugee Resettlement Program is a four-month needs-based program. Extensions will be allowed beyond the four months if there is still a need upon evaluation of the current situation.
Support for newly arrived refugees including employment support, vocational training, and English language instruction. Additional help covers emergency financial aid, navigating public benefit applications (digital and traditional), job placement, weekly and monthly food aid, access to both clinical and religious counseling, translation assistance, mentoring programs and automobile donations.
Services include assistance with securing permanent housing, new home furnishings like cleaning products and dishes, ensuring access to basic necessities such as food, clothing and transportation, applying for social security cards and many others.
Services include assistance with securing permanent housing, new home furnishings like cleaning products and dishes, ensuring access to basic necessities such as food, clothing and transportation, applying for social security cards and many others.
The Kovler Center Child Trauma Program (KCCTP) is a program of the Marjorie Kovler Center. KCCTP is dedicated to providing high-quality trauma-informed, culturally, and linguistically responsive treatment and services to immigrant and refugee youth and families who experienced trauma as a result of war, terrorism, forced migration, family separation, state-sponsored torture, and resettlement. Services include linguistically responsive (the preferred language of the client) outreach, case management, evidenced-based individual and group therapy interventions, and advocacy and social service support.

Services

Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Refugees/Entrants/Asylees
Refugee Resettlement Services
Assists with relocation to new homes, English language instruction, vocational training, and mental health support. Immigration services are available to immigrants and refugees already established in the U.S.