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Families move here. Families move out from under America's bridges and out from under our wobbly world's worst regimes.
If you count only people landing at PDX, that is: not counting those driving, bussing, or otherwise making their way here, Portland ranks 11th among US cities resettling international refugees.
That's a lot for a medium-sized metro, up two river bends, and a bit down economically. And yet it works. It all gets done with great civility, on account of kindness.
Portland is a compassionate place.
Settled Portlanders assist the social and economic integration of new Portlanders at several different levels and in many-many ways.
Government does a little, but newcomers' family, their friends, their faith and ethnic communities do the actual heavy-lifting.
Portland is home to several kinds of agencies receiving several kinds of funding from private, charitable, or government sources - all for getting our parents to work, and their kids into school, as quick as can be. Self-sufficiency is central to their services.
Click on a refugee service agency to know more about what each does. Please note: only the federal government funds refugee resettlement, job training and employment referral. Help is limited to a few services, for a short time.
Please note: these non-profit organizations deliver culturally-specific services. Portlanders served may or may not be immigrants.