The Center for Immigrant Integration offers several tools to better understand immigrant integration — its definition, what it looks like, who is responsible for making it happen, and how to get an agency ready to work on integration as an agency goal.
Integration Basics Podcast
The Integration Basics Podcast from CLINIC’s Center for Immigrant Integration provides an overview of integration concepts and how immigration legal service providers can engage in integration programing. Listen to each episode to learn the definition of immigrant integration and why it’s important, what immigrant integration looks like in the field and key considerations for integration programming.
Immigrant and Community Integration: Fulfilling Catholic Social Teaching and American Values
CLINIC’s White Paper provides a better understanding of immigrant integration as a concept and contextualizes it in the work that CLINIC does because of its roots in Catholic social teaching.
Immigrant and Community Integration Step by Step Guide to Local Integration Programming
This white paper will guide your organization through this process to help you design, implement, evaluate and reassess your integration initiatives while demonstrating how to actively promote integration in your community.
Community Integration Toolkit
This toolkit is meant to accompany CLINIC’s whitepaper ‘Immigrant and Community Integration Step by Step Guide to Local Integration Programming’. These materials in this toolkit offer informational content and accompanying worksheets to help you think through all a project’s core elements. Programs with established integration programming will also find the materials helpful for evaluating and improving existing programs. Whether your integration project is in the planning stages or has been in the community for years, we hope you find this toolkit useful as you seek to make your community a more inclusive, welcoming, and integrated place.
CLINIC Transition Paper: Promoting and Encouraging Immigrant Integration
This policy paper represents CLINIC’s recommendations for immigrant integration-related policies for the first 100 days of the Biden-Harris administration and beyond.
Make Immigrant Integration a Program Priority in 2022
Learn about the keys for purposefully and strategically promoting integration in your community, how to define your integration goals and how to engage with community stakeholders in program planning efforts.
President's Task Force on New Americans
A Federal Strategic Action Plan on Immigrant and Refugee Integration
Data collected from agency staff, clients and community members can help agency staff develop local immigrant integration programming that reflects the needs of your community. Resources on this page include CLINIC’s three Immigrant Integration Surveys, a webinar and a toolkit on how to collect and use the data.
As it has for more than 30 years, CLINIC will fight for the rights of immigrants. CLINIC trains legal representatives who provide high-quality and affordable immigration legal services. We develop and sustain a network of nonprofit programs that serve over 500,000 immigrants every year. We cultivate projects that support and defend vulnerable immigrant populations by:
History has taught us that people who step up can make a difference. We hope you will join us.
Embracing the Gospel value of welcoming the stranger, CLINIC promotes the dignity and protects the rights of immigrants in partnership with a dedicated network of Catholic and community legal immigration programs. We are based out of Silver Spring, Maryland (Washington, D.C. metropolitan area), with an office in Oakland, California, and additional staff working from locations throughout the country. Questions and inquiries can be sent to national@cliniclegal.org.
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