Help provide needed items for a newly-arrived refugee!

Housing volunteers at the IRC in Salt Lake City are crucial to the resettlement process! When refugees arrive in Utah, they are able to walk into a furnished home with all their essential needs to start out their lives here. Learn more about members of our housing support team: Jill Baker, Rob Kain, and Holli Turner.

Private Violence, Public Concern, examines the nature and drivers of intimate partner violence in three refugee camps across three continents. The research shows that intimate partner violence in humanitarian settings is driven by a complex set of factors that include pre-existing gender inequalities, which is exacerbated by rapidly changing gender roles.

Sarah, a casework intern, has been working at the IRC since the beginning of the school year! She has worked on planning bus orientations for newly arrived families, and bringing about robust processes to serve newly arrived refugees well.

Little is known about types and drivers of violence and interventions to reduce violence among displaced and host populations in urban areas. To this end, the IRC conducted a systematic review to research the current state of knowledge regarding the drivers of violence, the contributing factors of violence or rights violations, and programming to address violence among displaced and host populations in crisis and post-crisis urban areas.

Naomi is one of dozens of immigrant, refugee, and new American entrepreneurs that have launched their small businesses with support from Spice Kitchen Incubator. Her business, Prin-Ya Custard, has a unique business model!

Asylum seekers in America face case processing delays and barriers to employment. The IRC calls on Congressional leaders to address these challenges and support people seeking protection in the U.S.