REFUGEE SERVICES | CIRA - CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVANCEMENT
Assists all refugees; provides programs for ESL, transportation, cultural orientation, and employment. Helps refugees learn to live and work in the United States.
Services include:
-- Employment skills class
-- Interpreters available to go with refugees to medical appointments or hospitals
-- Coordinates health and human services, ESL classes, housing with OHA, citizenship, drivers' licenses and classes, etc.
-- Job placement for refugees
-- Refugee resettlement from another country to Omaha
-- Support groups
-- Youth programming
Physical Address
4223 Center Street, Omaha, NE 68105
Hours
Mon 9 am - 5 pm; Tue 9 am - 5 pm; Wed 9 am - 5 pm; Thu 9 am - 5 pm; Fri 9 am - 5 pm;
Voice
Website
https://www.ciraconnect.org
Application process
Contact for information
Fee
None
Required documents
Varies by service
Eligibility
Open to refugees and secondary immigrants, special immigrant visa holders, humanitarian parolees (Afghanis and Ukrainians), asylees, trafficking victims, Cuban and Haitians entrants, Amerasians (Vietnamese people with connection to U.S. family ties); Confidential intake hotline is for low-income individuals currently detained by Immigration and Custom's Enforcement (ICE) in Nebraska or Southwest Iowa
Languages
Amharic, Arabic, Burmese, Dari, Dinka, English, Farsi, German, Hindi, Italian, Karen, Nepali, Nuer, Pashtu, Shona, Somali, Spanish, Urdu
Service area
Lancaster County, Nebraska
Sarpy County, Nebraska
Douglas County, Nebraska
Agency info
CIRA - CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVANCEMENT
Immigration legal services, refugee resettlement, and social work.