Fresno County Refugee Service Providers for Fiscal Year 2008-09
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AGENCY: Fresno Center for New Americans
ADDRESS: 4879 E. Kings Canyon Road, Fresno, CA 93727
PHONE: (559) 255-8395
CONTACT: Lue N. Yang, Executive Director
PROJECT: Family Support and Advocacy, Refugee Employment Services, California Works for Better Health (CWBH), Telecommunications, Computer Mentor, Living Well Project and Case Management Services for New Arrivals, Child Passenger Safety Setting Station, Hmong Resettlement Health System, Hmong Family Care Project, Southeast Asian Advocacy Project, Self Sufficiency Project, Tobacco Project, Outreach Enrollment Retention and Utilization (OERU) and ESL Class.
AGENCY: Lao Family Community of Fresno
ADDRESS: 4903 E. Kings Canyon Road, Fresno, CA 93727
PHONE: (559) 453-9775
CONTACT PERSON: Pao Fang, Executive Director
PROJECT: Refugee Employment Services, Refugee Family Services, Ethnic Self-Help, English Literacy, Income Tax Services and Community Builder.
AGENCY: Khmer Society of Fresno
ADDRESS: 5191 E. Tulare Street, Fresno, CA 93727
PHONE: (559) 252-0474
CONTACT PERSON: Tia Lam, Executive Director
PROJECT: Life Skills, Family Advocacy and Family Support Services, Consumer Protection Telecom Rights, Income Tax Assistance, Cambodian Community Based Early Childhood Education, Radio Programming, SEA Health Cluster Project and Domestic Violence, and Breast Cancer Community Outreach Education Prevention and Referral.
AGENCY: Fresno County Economic Opportunities Commission
ADDRESS: 1920 Mariposa Mall, Fresno, CA 93721
PHONE: (559) 263-1293 Fax (559) 263-1187
CONTACT PERSON: Lalo Acevedo, Operation Director
PROJECT: ORR Refugee Micro-enterprise Development, Office of Community Services Individual Development Account, Refugee Economic Self Sufficiency Project, One-Stop-Shop, Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), Women, Infants & Children (WIC), Health Services, Head Start, CalWORKs Pregnant and Teen Services/Sibling Services, Directed Placement for Newly Arrival Refugees and Refugee Rural Initiative Marketing Program for Refugee Farmers.
AGENCY: Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries, Inc
ADDRESS: 1940 N. Fresno Street, Fresno, CA 93703
PHONE: (559) 487-1500 Fax (559) 487-1550
CONTACT PERSON: Sharon Stanley, Executive Director
PROJECT: New Life Mentoring Program, Resettlement Home Items Contributions, Elder Hope Program, Parent Cooperative & Childcare, Healthy Homes Project, Refugee Employment & One Stop Shop, Mental Health Care, Slavic Kids in Focus, Theological Education, Neighborhood Outreach, IHSS Trainer, Refugee Readiness Program, Family Support and Advocacy.
AGENCY: Goodwill Industries of San Joaquin Valley, Fresno Campus
ADDRESS: 6437 N. Blackstone Ave, Fresno, CA 93710
PHONE: (559) 224-0162 Fax (559) 224-0285
CONTACT PERSON: Linda Huntley, Director of Workforce Development
PROJECT: Retail Skills, Office Technology, Janitorial Skills, Employment Preparation and Job Placement.
AGENCY: Centro La Familia Advocacy Services, Inc
ADDRESS: T.W. Patterson Bldg., 2014 Tulare Street, Suite 711, Fresno, CA 93721
PHONE: (559) 237-2961 Fax (559) 237-3772
CONTACT PERSON: Margarita Rocha, Executive Director
PROJECT: Enrollment, Intervention and Prevention, Housing, Assistance with Domestic Violence Temporary Restraining Orders, Telecommunications Consumer Advocacy, Breast and Cervical Cancer Awareness, Students Targeted with Opportunities for Prevention, Cultural Outcomes for Positive Experiences, First 5 Children and Families, First Abuelitas & Mamacitas Promotora Program and Child Abuse Prevention, Intervention, Treatment and Family Maintenance.