Community
Cultural Awareness
One
of the challenges for any community that resettles refugees is to help them access
the services that are already in place in the community. Barriers to access range
from language difficulties to radical differences in culture. The more the community
learns about other cultures, the easier the blending process will become.
The
Refugee Development Center offers an assortment of educational programs about
refugee groups and their cultures to the Lansing community.
Also
available from the Refugee Center: Training for agency personnel
in how to deal with people from other cultures, and information about the particular
refugee cultures with which they are dealing.