The Jobs and English for New Americans program at IRIS --Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services -- will provide intensive workforce development opportunities and English Language learning to refugees, persecuted people from around the world. This program will enable refugees to achieve economic self-sufficiency within their first six months in the U.S., laying the foundation for their continued financial success as they build new lives in this country. The program will serve 75 refugees.

The Diaper Bank will provide diapers to low income families in Greater New Haven through a network of social service providers that work with low income families in order to increase access to a need not covered by benefits and to promote workforce development opportunities. Diapers are not an allowable expense through the WIC program or SNAP. TDB serve 4,000 children in Connecticut each year meeting this basic unmet need for these vulnerable families.

The program provides case management, entitlement assessments, ESL, computer skills training, financial education, and small business development to greater New Haven residents (primarily Latino/Hispanic residents of the Fairhaven section of New Haven) to build employability skills, sound financial behaviors, and the disciplines needed to obtain financial stability. Program anticipates providing benefit screenings to 600 individuals, financial education to 250 individuals, small business training to 75 individuals, and computer training to 198 individuals.