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The African Community
Center for Educational & Social Services, now African Community Development Council was founded in 2002 in New Haven,
Connecticut to welcome and provide variety of services to newcomers who have had to flee persecution within their home country.
Many of our clients arrive in the United States with little but possess great hope about their lives in America. ACDC conducts
educational and social service programs that help newcomers resettle in their new communities, recover from past trauma, gain
personal independence and economic self-sufficiency, and quickly become active participants and productive, contributing members
of American society. In addition, our agency works and coordinates with African community-based organizations across the United
States to strength the networking and developing leadership capacity to better serve our respective communities. Our community
outreach program (COP) also promotes awareness about refugee/asylum/legal immigrant issues and the challenges faced by newcomers
as they move through the resettlement and cultural adjustment process. ACDC engages African immigrants and members of the
wider community to enhance cross-cultural communication.
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- ACDC provides direct services to the refugees and asylums whom been resettled in the area under a founded
program called Connecticut Refugee Program.
- ACDC has been recognized by The State Office of Refugee
Resettlement to provide case management, job development and referral services to the refugees and the asylums.
- ACDC affiliated
with the Connecticut Coalition of Mutual Assistance Association based in Hartford to provide social and or employment services
to the African community in Greater New Haven area.
- We now have several bilingual and multicultural volunteer
and staff members to help newcomers and legal immigrants from diverse cultural heritages become self-sufficient, contributing
members of the community. We assist clients from countries as diverse as Bosnia, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Liberia, Afghanistan,
Iraq, Congo, Burundi, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Guinea, and Senegal.
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