Immigration Outreach Service Center - Immigration Women: Seeking Stability and Striving For Success - S4 Program

Literacy/Education 

Grant: $25,000

https://www.ioscbaltimore.org/

The Immigration Outreach Services Center was created in 2000 to serve the needs of Baltimore’s immigrants as they rebuild their lives.  The S4 Program serving immigrant women is an outgrowth of the Center’s Computer Literacy program.  It offers comprehensive wraparound services including housing, legal consultations, mentoring, food assistance, computer and financial literacy and job referrals.  Transitional housing may be provided for up to three years. Over 1000 women and children have benefited from wraparound services and educational programs.  The largely volunteer staff  working at S4 assists their clients with attaining legal employment status so that they may work and live independently with their children as well as guiding them toward ESOL classes and mentoring them on job and career goals.  This inspiring group does a lot with very little and our grant will be meaningful in helping them carry on their good work.