What We Do

ASSIST NEWCOMERS

For nearly 20 years, ECDC has been offering a wide range of educational, social, and support services that help newcomers to the country become self-sufficient, contributing members of the community in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Today, these services continue to be provided at the ECDC African Community Center offices in Denver, Colorado, Las Vegas, Nevada, and Washington, D.C., and at the ECDC Multicultural Community Services office in Arlington, Virginia. Bicultural, bilingual staff, representing various cultural backgrounds, work in each of these locations.

Typical services include refugee resettlement, orientation and adjustment counseling, English-as-a-Second language and citizenship education classes, information and referral, immigration counseling, housing assistance, translation and interpretation services, transportation, crisis intervention and emergency assistance.

A core component at each location is ECDC's employment services, which help newcomers become self-sufficient while providing employers with authorized, eager, and hard-working employees. Services include job counseling, pre-employment orientation, resume preparation, job development, and job placement. To help newcomers better understand the American work environment, they participate in individual or job club sessions.

Additional information about ECDC newcomer services can be obtained by contacting the following ECDC branch offices:

• ECDC African Community Center
  Jennifer Schiller
  901 S. Highland Street
  Arlington, VA 22204
  (703) 685-0510
  (703) 685-0529
  Email
  
  
• ECDC African Community Center
  African Community Center of Denver
  Jennifer Gueddiche
  1201 East Colfax Ave. Suite # 201
  Denver, CO 80218
  (303) 399-4500
  (303) 399-4502
  Email
  www.africancommunitycenter.net
  
  
• ECDC African Community Center
  George Ossavou
  Las Vegas, NV 89107
  (702) 836-3324
  (702) 836-3338
  Email