FAMILY SERVICES

Building Bridges to Self-Sufficiency

What Does Employment Services Assist Individuals With?

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Assessment and enrollment

 
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Preparing for interviews

 
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Support services

 
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Employment Plan

 
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Creating resumes and cover letters

 
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Career planning and laddering

 
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Case management

 
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Job placement and retention

 
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Referral to community resources

 

Programs Offered

Southern Minnesota Region 3 Resettlement Network Services

IMAA is a lead partner with five other organizations in Southern Minnesota to provide coordinated services along a continuum of care with a whole family approach.  Services provided assist refugees, asylees, victims of human trafficking, Cuban and Haitian entrants, Special Immigrant Visa holders, and individuals under humanitarian protection who have been in the U.S. for less than five years. Services include:

Family Assisters: Work with families to resolve immediate needs and connect them to community resources to strengthen well-being.

Family Coaches: Provide long term support towards multi-step academic and career/vocational goals for students, youth, and adults.

Employment: Assist people to secure and maintain employment.

Community Orientation Workshops: Provide education for integration around employment readiness, using public transit, financial literacy, ways to get involved in your new community, and other relevant topics.

Immigration: Support people with legal services on the path to become U.S. citizens.

Five partners include: Minnesota Council of Churches, Somali Community Resettlement Services, Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, United Community Action Program, and Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota.

 

Diversionary Work Program (DWP) and Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP)
Provides employment planning and assistance for all individuals receiving financial assistance through Olmsted County and living in the United States less than five years.

Learn more about DWP

Learn more about MFIP

ParentChild+

Using education to break the cycle of poverty. ParentChild+ envistons a world where every child enters school ready to succeed because every parent has the knowledge, skills, and resources to build school readiness where it starts: the home. Learn more about ParentChild+

Whole Family Systems

Intercultural Mutual Assistance Association (IMAA) and Families First of Minnesota are leading a multi-disciplinary team to improve access to early childhood learning programs for children of first-generation immigrant families, and to increase the engagement of caregivers of those children as they transition from pre-Kindergarten into Kindergarten. We hope by exploring the social-cultural determinants, systemic policies, practices, programs, initiatives, funding, governance, data and communications that impact our first generation immigrant families allows us in a whole family systems approach to maintain, and or increase continued engagement of parents through the pre-Kindergarten into Kindergarten phase and beyond.

For more information about Employment Services, contact Ahmed Osman, Family Services Program Manager, at (507)-289-5960 ext. 108 or ahmed.osman@imaa.net

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Address:
2500 Valleyhigh Drive NW
Rochester, MN, 55901

Phone: (507) 289-5960

Fax: (507) 289-6199

Business Hours:

Monday - 8:30am-5pm
Tuesday - 10:00am-5pm
Wednesday - 8:30am-5pm
Thursday - 8:30am-5pm
Friday - 8:30am-5pm
Saturday and Sunday - Closed

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