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Consulting

Our consultants are available to work individually with your organization or business to address refugee employment related issues. To arrange a consultation with RefugeeWorks, email information@refugeeworks.org.


Our consultation experiences include:
  • Facilitating strategic planning or restructuring for refugee employment programs.

  • Negotiating partnerships with new employers.

  • Convening local refugee employment stakeholders to address challenges and develop collaborative solutions.

  • Addressing placement outcomes and sharing strategies from other sites.

  • Preparing reports that promote new strategies for refugee employment.


Recent projects include:
  • Participating in a national project, supported by the Wilder Foundation, with other capacity building organizations to identify best practices in capacity building for refugee and immigrant-led organizations.

  • Supporting public and private sector subsidized employment placements for refugees in Stockton and Merced, California, St. Paul, Minnesota and Lowell, Massachusetts.

  • Leading a statewide refugee youth initiative in California that included coalition-building and program planning in seven selected cities.

  • Conducting specific training sessions that incorporate goal-setting and action plans for several local voluntary agencies.


RefugeeWorks facilitates employment partnership between Lao Veterans of America and University Bank in St. Paul, Minnesota (2003).