Related Program: Refugee & Immigration Services
80 Sherman Street
Portland, Maine
Community integration is vital to refugee resettlement. The Cultural Orientation volunteer helps to support integration into their new community on this informative day, .
Key Responsibilities:
Impact of Opportunity:
The Cultural Orientation volunteer will embody the CCM core value of “hospitality” by “welcoming the most vulnerable and in need to an environment of dignity, safety, warmth and a sense of being home.” The efforts of the orientation volunteer will help refugees build a safe life in Maine by improving connectedness to their local community at large and to the local immigrant community. The efforts of the orientation volunteer will help refugees become independent and self-sufficient.
Qualifications & Skills Required:
Training Offered:
Time Commitment & Schedule: 2 to 8 hours per month - the 3rd Friday of the month
Benefits:
Program Contact: If interested, you may also contact our Volunteer Services , at 207 523-1152, or volunteerinfo@ccmaine.org or Tracy Moore, program manager - at tmoore@ccmaine.org
Updated August 2024 CC