Help refugee students with school enrollment process, follow up with the families to help them start school and help remove the barriers, provide school enrollment orientations and culture orientations to the new students and their parents, collaborate with the community agencies to create tutoring and mentoring programs and support sessions for the students & parents, and help the refugee families in crisis and provide them with basic needs and referral them to the community resources.

Joseph House of Cleveland, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in 1997 to support refugees resettling in Cleveland. We run a Clothing Bank offering free clothing, shoes, housewares, and toiletries to refugees and local neighbors in need. Joseph House also provides housing to refugees supported by Catholic Charities Migration and Refugee Services (MRS). Many Greater Cleveland agencies bring refugee clients to us. Beyond refugees, we serve local residents in need, ensuring no one is turned away.

Smart Development Inc works to enhance the social safety net and expansion of opportunities for at-need families to grow roots and lead toward pathways of self-sufficiency and being a trusted-voice for Newcomers in Northeast Ohio. This is done by providing total quality of life services encompassing case management, workforce and employment services, basic needs donations, resource navigation, housing navigation and counseling, public benefits support, cultural orientation, and language support.