Programming

Roca Immigrant & Refugee Initiatives

In July 2007, Roca is launching the Roca Immigrant and Refugee Initiative (RIRI). After 19 years of successful work with thousands of immigrants and refugees, we have honed and strengthened our work with this community to create a unique leadership model that will powerfully address the issues facing immigrant and refugee youth, their parents, and communities. Roca will engage seventy-five very high-risk immigrant and refugee young people in our signature transformational relationships to support them as they connect to education and employment resources. We will also train fifty immigrant youth and adult partners to launch organizing efforts reaching thousands of people to address immigration and human rights issues.

RIRI is designed to help our most disenfranchised youth and young adults through the stages of change on both personal and social levels, to give a voice to those in our communities who are overlooked, left out, and ignored.

For more information, contact Victor Jose at 617-889-5210 x226 or Victor_Jose@rocainc.com.