Education Support, Mentoring, & Tutoring

Alameda County Workforce Development Board (ACWDB)
The Alameda County Workforce Development Board (ACWDB) is a 27-member employer-led body responsible for overseeing the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I program, outside the city of Oakland. WIOA services are available to meet the training and employment needs of local area job seekers, including youth and young adults. Business services are also available to help employers meet their goals around talent recruitment and business training needs. Our goal is to facilitate the connection of job seekers to quality jobs while remaining responsive and supportive to local area businesses.
At Home Humanitarian
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At Home Humanitarian is a grassroots effort focused on socially integrating refugees, asylees, and immigrants while building tolerance and understanding throughout their new communities. Our core work focuses on mentor matching, community acculturation events, and providing extracurricular opportunities. Mentorships, outings, and scholarships.
Bridging Refugee Youth and Children’s Services (BRYCS)
Bridging Refugee Youth and Children’s Services (BRYCS) aims to strengthen the capacity of refugee-serving and mainstream organizations across the U.S. to empower and ensure the successful development of refugee children, youth, and their families.
Centro Legal de la Raza
Centro Legal de la Raza is a legal services agency protecting and advancing the rights of low-income, immigrant, Black, and Latinx communities through bilingual legal representation, education, and advocacy. By combining quality legal services with know-your-rights education and youth development
East Bay Asian Youth Center (EBAYC)
EBAYC builds strategic partnerships with schools, city and county governments, and community organizations, and establishes trusting relationships with families to provide seamless services to support youth. Our diverse menu of services include youth violence prevention, expanded learning, and civic and community engagement.
Service Area
Bay Area
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant provides legal, social, and advocacy programs that address the many challenges that immigrants face. Together, we help to create a pathway to citizenship and more compassionate immigration policies.
Service Area
East Bay
Education Refuge
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Education Refuge provides support to refugees through support in education by offering 1-on -1 learning meetings online with our high school student mentors.
Service Area
National
Harbor House Ministries
Harbor House Ministries provides ESL, food, clothing and housing assistance, youth programs and services, education, employment and job training, and childcare programs.
Service Area
East Bay
Hayward Unified School District (HUSD)
Hayward Unified School District's Multilingual Learner Department provides on-going support to our district's programs designed for students whose primary language is not English.
Service Area
Hayward
Iman TV
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Beginning/Literacy and Intermediate English lessons for Afghan community members.
Service Area
National
International Rescue Committee – Oakland
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Oakland's programs are designed to ensure that you, as a refugee, thrive in America--whether ensuring your children are enrolled in school, you as an adult is become self-reliant through employment or starting businesses, or families are receiving acute medical care you need to recover from trauma or illness. If you are in need, the IRC will help you to rebuild your life and regain control of your future in your new home community.
Service Area
East Bay
New Toolkit: Supporting Afghan Students in Schools & Youth Programs in the United States (Switchboard)
The toolkit cited here is designed to help educators to develop a well-rounded understanding of the circumstances of newly arrived Afghan students and their families, including the challenges they may face as they seek to adapt to the American education system. Additionally, it is designed for educators to better understand the Afghan educational systems and possible educational experiences of students and name core considerations for working with Afghan students and their families.
Service Area
National
PARS Equality Center
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Provides ESL, home-based tutoring, immigration services, social services, interpretation services, employment assistance services.
Service Area
Bay Area
Peralta Community College District
A collaborative of colleges advancing social and economic transformation for students and the community through quality education, rooted in equity, social justice, environmental sustainability, and partnerships.
Service Area
Alameda County
Support for Afghan Financial Empowerment (SAFE) Initiative -(International Rescue Committee))
An initiative to empower newly arrived families as they begin their journey to financial stability and economic security in their new homes across the U.S.
Service Area
National
The Unity Council
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The Unity Council is a non-profit Social Equity Development Corporation with over 50 years of history in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland. Our mission is to promote social equity and improve quality of life by building vibrant communities where everyone can work, learn, and thrive.
Service Area
East Bay
Tutoring for Afghan Refugees and Immigrants
Offers free tutoring services for English language and school support to refugee students in middle school and high school, as well as to young mothers.
Upwardly Global
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Provides employment assistance and job search skills training for recently arrived immigrant and refugee professionals to the US who have full work authorization.
Service Area
Bay Area
Welcome Start
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Welcome Start provides free courses and coaching to get started in the U.S. This program powered by Cell-Ed is funded by the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) - Refugee Program Bureau (RPB) and Immigrant Integration.
Service Area
Statewide
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