Refugee Transitions
Organization Details
| Name | Refugee Transitions |
| URL | http://www.reftrans.org/ |
| Phone number | 4159892151 |
Organization Description
| Service(s) description | Refugee Transitions provides high-need, low-income newcomers with education, family engagement, and community leadership services to improve their English language, job, life, and academic skills. Our core service is Home-based Tutoring, for which we recruit, train, and match volunteer tutors with youth and adult newcomer students. This individualized program is highly effective. Our Home-based students consistently outperform demographic averages in terms of graduation rates and language-learning gains, and we are able to reach the most isolated members of our communities—newcomers who are young mothers, elderly, or disabled. Our Home-based Tutoring is supported by English Language and Literacy Classes for adults and After-School Tutoring for youth, along with family services and leadership development opportunities that help us find comprehensive solutions and create pathways forward for newcomers. |
| Program impact | Over the last ten years, Refugee Transitions volunteers have devoted over 80,000 hours to tutoring and mentoring youth newcomers. Refugee Transitions' youth students are more likely than other English learners to stay in school, graduate from high school, and enroll in higher education programs. |
Community programs are organized into categories known as Community School Elements. All community programs associated with Refugee Transitions are listed below and each program may be provided at 1 or more schools. You can use the 'Show Details' buttons to learn more about each program.
Academic & Social Emotional Learning (1 program)
Programs to help bolster academic learning with SEL skills and competencies: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making.
Expanded Learning (1 program)
Programs that provide additional opportunities to practice the skills students are learning in the classroom and to cultivate the study habits and mindset needed to succeed in school.
Family Engagement & Support (1 program)
Programs that help bridge OUSD staff with the communities they serve, incorporating the experiences of all families, such that all stakeholders become authentic co-owners of our schools.
Youth leadership (1 program)
Programs to help cultivate civically engaged communities in which students have power to inform, influence, and shape policy that reflects their perspective.