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EDUCATION
Aurora
- Aurora Public Schools
Address: 15700 East First Avenue,
Aurora, Colorado, 80011
Phone Number: (303) 340-0510
Contact: Tien Dang, who speaks Vietnamese
Komar Chau, who speaks Khmer
- Russian Jewish Association
Address: 2035 South Joliet
Court, Aurora, Colorado, 80014
Phone: (303) 364-7647
Boulder
- Association for Russian Jewry
Address: 1190 Judson Drive,
Boulder, Colorado, 80303
Phone Number: (303) 499-2026
Contact: Carol Watkius
- Boulder Public Schools
Address: 6500 East Arapahoe,
Boulder, Colorado, 80303
Phone Number: (303) 447-5568
Contact: Gao Vu, who speaks Hmong and Laotian
- El Centro Amistad
Address: 205 Canyon Boulevard,
Boulder, Colorado, 80302
Phone Number: (303) 443-3970 (ext.1)
Contact: Rusty Denham, Intake Coordinator
Program Description: Provides adult ESL classes, skills training, and social activities. Legal advising is available.
Services available in English and Spanish.
- Family Learning Center
Address: 3164 34th Street,
Boulder, Colorado, 80301
Phone Number: (303) 442-8979
Program Description: Provides educational and skills training for children and families.
- Intercombio de Comunidades
Address: 2885 Aurora Avenue,
Boulder, Colorado, 80303
Phone Number: (303) 996-0275
Contact: Veronica Contos
Program Description: Provides English classes, community outreach, and social events.
Information in English and Spanish.
Denver
- African Community Center
Address: 1201 East Colfax Avenue, Ste. #201, Denver, Colorado 80218
Phone Number: (303) 399-4500
Contact: Jennifer Gueddiche, Program Manager
Program Description: Provides educational and social service programs for refugees resettling in the U.S.
http://www.africancommunitycenter.net/site/ACC
- American Friends Service Committee
Address: 901 West 14th Avenue, Suite 7, Denver, Colorado 80204
Phone Number: (303) 623-3464
Contact: Danielle Short, Program Director
E-mail: dshort@afsc.org
Program Description: Carries out service, development, social justice, and peace programs throughout the world.
http://www.afsc.org/central/colorado.htm
- Catholic Charties of Denver
Address: 2525 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, CO 80219
Phone Number: (303) 742-4971
Contact: James H. Mauck, President
Cheryl Gloria Martinez, Immigration & Refugee Services
E-mail: info@catholiccharitiesden.com
Program Description: Provides food, shelter, affordable child care, immigration services, counseling services, elder care for seniors, support for the disabled, emergency assistance for families in crisis, and adoption/foster care services.
www.CCDenver.org
- Cherry Creek Schools
Address: 4700 South Yosemite Street,
Greenwood Village, Colorado, 80111
Phone Number: (303) 773-1184
- Colorado Department of Education
Address: 201 East Colfax,
Denver, Colorado, 80203
Phone Number: (303) 860-6606
Contact: Teresa Falagrady
- Colorado Refugee Services
Program
Address: 789 Sherman Street,
Suite 250, Denver, Colorado, 80203
Phone Number: (303) 863-8211
Fax Number: (303) 863-0838
Contact: Barbara Carr, Director
E-mail: barbara.carr@state.co.us
Program Description: Provides social services for refugees resettling in the U.S.
http://www.cdhs.state.co.us/oss/Refugee/refugee_services_program.htm
- Colorado Refugee ESL Program (Emily Griffith Opportunity School)
Address: 1250 Welton Street, Denver, Colorado 80204
Phone Number: (720) 423-4847
Community Outreach Coordinator: Marlene Dallas, Volunteer Coordinator
- Denver Public Schools
Address: 900 Grant, Denver,
Colorado, 80204
Phone Number: (303) 837-1000
- Ecumenical Refugee Services, Inc.
Address: 190 E. 9th Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone Number: (303) 860-0128
Contact: Patricia Vorwerk, Executive Director
Program Description: Provides social services, employment assistance, and health services for refugees in the U.S.
http://www.ersden.org
- Emily Griffith Opportunity
School
Address: 1250 Welton Street,
Denver, Colorado, 80204
Phone Number: (303) 572-8218
Contacts: Estelle Matus, Program Manager
Betty Wheaton, Office Manager
- Eritrean Community
Address: 930 Monaco
Boulevard, Denver, Colorado
Phone Number: (303) 665-1005
Contact: Tzegai Yehaise, who speaks Tigrigna
- Glendale Library
Address: 999 South Clermont Street
Glendale, Colorado 80246
Phone Number: (303) 691-0331
E-mail: ask@ald.lib.co.us
- Jewish Family Service
Address: 1355 South Colorado
Boulevard, Denver, Colorado, 80222
Phone Number: (303) 759-4890
Contacts: Yana Vishnitsky, who speaks Russian
Inna Ogenesyan, who speaks Russian E-mail: jfs@jewishfamilyservice.org Program Description: Provides social services for the Jewish community
http://www.jewishfamilyservice.org/
- Mi Casa Resource Center for Women, Inc.
Address: 360 Acoma Street, Denver, Colorado 80223
Phone: (303) 573-1302
Contact: Carmen Carrillo, Chief Executive Officer
Community Outreach Coordinator: Deborah Courrier, Assistant to Carmen Carrillo
E-mail: info@micasadenver.org
Program Description: Programs include a microenterprise training program and nontraditional job training for low-income Latinas and youth.
http://www.micasadenver.org/
- Spring Institute for
Intercultural Learning
Address: 1610 Emerson St., Denver, CO 80218
Phone: (303) 863-0178
Contact: Rich Wildau, SIRFI Project Director E-mail: spring@springinstitute.org Program Description: Provides pre-employment training.
http://www.spring-institute.org/
Lakewood
- Jefferson County Public Schools
Address: 1829 Denver West Drive, Lakewood, Colorado
Phone Number: (303) 982-1000
Littleton
- Littleton Public Schools
Address: 5776 South Crocker Street, Littleton, Colorado 80120
Phone Number: (303) 347-3300
Westminster
- Hmong Community Services
Address: 3489 West 72nd Avenue, Suite 107,
Westminster, Colorado, 80030
Phone Number: (303) 430-0680
Contact: Shoua Moua E-mail: pangher@aol.com
- Lao-American Association
Address: 11368 Otis Street,
Westminster, Colorado, 80020
Phone Number: (303) 466-7472
Contact: Banchay Sourivong, who speaks Laotian, Russian, and French
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