Funding Area: Health
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. While IRC’s reach is global, each office is designed to be place-based, meaning that they collaborate with clients and communities to develop culturally congruent and linguistically accessible programming wholly integrated into the local service landscape. The IRC has been operating in Miami since 1960 and over decades has served refugees, asylees, survivors of trafficking and unaccompanied children and their families. Through the provision of culturally competent, client-centered, and trauma-informed case management services, the IRC empowers its clients to integrate and thrive in their new South Florida communities.
Our involvement: The Marty Tomberg Charitable Fund has financially supported this organization.
Projects We Support
Mental Well-Being Assessment and Awareness Program
The program provides services to Unaccompanied Children (UC) that incorporate focused mental health programming into its existing case management service. The program improves the mental health, resilience, and overall well-being of UCs by providing individualized services that address unmet needs with integrated mental healthcare service provision, making more robust IRC’s referral network, to better service clients’ mental health needs, and collecting data to ensure quality provision of services and intended outcomes. The program ensures that UCs have psychosocial supports and resources they need to stay safe and stable and that they have the mental health supports they need to decrease distress, increase adaptive functioning, and improve long-term resilience.
Support Dates: March, 2021 – March, 2022
Organization and Project Photos
Program participant attending virtual school and receiving in-home study services from IRC caseworkers. The identity of unaccompanied children is not shared with the public for safety and privacy.
Photo Credit: IRC
