Liberty's Promise

- Investing in America's Immigrant Youth

The strength of Liberty's Promise is its ability to draw upon the expertise and knowledge of existing agencies and organizations that serve the immigrant community. Each of these organizations has decades of experience in supporting immigrants and refugees through direct-service programs that address domestic violence, economic development, health care, housing, and issues of immigration and naturalization. Caseworkers at each organization frequently work with young people. Liberty's Promise will collaborate closely with these caseworkers to determine which young immigrants would most benefit from our programs.

To date, the following organizations have pledged support, agreeing to publicize Liberty's Promise programs, perform outreach, and recommend immigrant youth as candidates for services:

- Center For Multicultural Human Services

Based in Northern Virginia, CMHS is a non-profit agency providing a broad range of mental health, educational, consulting, training, and social services in 27 languages, which are geared to the unique values and characteristics of individuals and families from diverse cultures.

- Ethiopian Community Development Council

A national organization with three branch offices and eight affiliate organizations, ECDC's mission is to resettle refugees from all countries, promote cultural, educational, and socio-economic development in the refugee and immigrant community in the United States, and conduct humanitarian and development programs in the Horn of Africa.

- Hispanic Committee of Virginia

With three offices in Northern Virginia and a fulltime staff of 35 (from 11 Latin American countries and the U.S.), HCV offers programs and services that enable Hispanic immigrants to more fully participate in and contribute to American society.

In addition, we are working with the following organization to design our civics curriculum:

- Center for Teaching International Relations (CTIR)

For more than 30 years, CTIR at the University of Denver's Graduate School of International Studies has published and distributed quality instructional materials for K-12 classrooms. CTIR has worked with the U.S. Department of State to create curricula studying the issue of landmines, and has also published a series entitled Teaching American Diplomacy Using Primary Sources, which developed history and civics units studying four turning points in American foreign policy.

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