Oakland Unified School Districts (OUSD)

Oakland Unified School District Refugee & Asylee Student Assistance Program (OUSD RASAP) assists refugee and immigrants families with school enrollment, placement, and support for new arrival students and their families. The Refugee & Asylee Program identifies, supports, and tracks newly-arrived refugee students, providing crucial services in support of their school integration and academic success. By working together with community partners and other OUSD departments, their program allows for school sites to both refer students and reach out to the program for assistance when needed. Specifically, the program offers school enrollment assistance, school orientation, tutoring, family engagement, and targeted educational support for refugee students and families during the summer. High-need students are provided with educational case management and social emotional learning opportunities for refugee & asylee students, such as partnerships with Soccer Without Borders and Opera Piccola, a community arts organization.

Contact: Nate Dunstan is the Program Manager, Newcomer and Refugee/Asylee Services. Email: nathaniel.dunstan@ousd.org

Oakland International High School (OIHS)(510-597-4287) Provides ESL, mental health, youth programs, education, financial & computer literacy. The school targets a population of students, newly arrived immigrants, who have historically been underserved nationally, in California, and in Oakland. The network’s mission is to provide quality education to recently arrived immigrants by developing and networking small high schools based on the Internationals approach. For more information, please visit their website at: http://www.internationalsnps.org.

Oakland Adult and Career Education Oakland Unified School District’s (OUSD) Oakland Adult and Career Education (OACE) has been committed to providing Adult Basic Education (ABE) and Adult Secondary Education (ASE) for immigrants, dropouts and those most vulnerable in Oakland for 145 years. OACE is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), and all instructors are credentialed by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. OACE has a community-based service delivery model, in 20 locations throughout the city of Oakland.