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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… When Ihosef was a boy, he dreamed of airplanes. His mother Yolette worked as a legal consultant at an airport, and on the days when he came to work with her, the planes amazed him. “I was always good at taking things apart and putting them back together,” says…
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Survive, Adapt, Rebuild
Mustafa and Dalia’s journey from their home in Syria to a new home in the U.S. lasted a decade. When they arrived, the process of adaptation continued for their family.
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Education Matters: Lessons Learned from a Volunteer Tutor
Meet Clare Spaulding! Originally from a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, she’s lived in Chicagoland for nearly eight years. Clare works at Communities In Schools of Chicago, an education non-profit that partners with 238 Chicago Public Schools to provide no-cost programming.…
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The Road to Resilience: Part 3
How Immigrants Adapt with Support from our Counseling Center: The Invisible Load Written by Sonnie Mwangi, Mental Health Counselor & Christine Cummings, Director of Counseling Center Counselors understand that refugees and other immigrants carry more than the physical weight of…
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The Road to Resilience: Part 2
How Immigrants Adapt with Support from our Counseling Center: Identity and Status Change Written by Sonnie Mwangi, Mental Health Counselor & Christine Cummings, Director of Counseling Center As we continue the series on how immigrants adapt to life in the…
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