Interfaith Refugee Resettlement Program (IRRP)
Welcoming New Neighbors
Our partners
Community Partners
There are many, many social service agencies, church groups, individuals that are partnering with the Interfaith Refugee Resettlement Program to assist in the successful resettlement of newly arriving refugees.
Publicly Funded Support Programs
When refugees arrive they are eligible for refugee cash assistance for up to 8 months. It is expected that refugees will also utilize other federal and state programs to meet their needs. Below are a few of the programs that IRRP assists new refugees to access.
WIC The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children — better known as the WIC Program — serves to safeguard the health of low-income women, infants, and children up to age 5 who are at nutritional risk by providing nutritious foods to supplement diets, information on healthy eating, and referrals to health care.
Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) . CSFP works to improve the health of low-income pregnant and breastfeeding women, other new mothers up to one year postpartum, infants, children up to age six, and elderly people at least 60 years of age by supplementing their diets with nutritious USDA commodity foods. It provides food and administrative funds to States to supplement the diets of these groups.
Fuel Assistance The New Hampshire Office of Energy and Planning (OEP) is responsible for the statewide administration of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Block Grant (LIHEAP), referred to as the Fuel Assistance Program. LIHEAP is federally funded through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. OEP, in turn, contracts with six local Community Action Agencies (also known as CAAs) to provide service to eligible households. As funds become available, the Fuel Assistance Program provides benefits to qualified New Hampshire households to assist with heating costs. Renters and homeowners are eligible for the Fuel Assistance Program.
Head Start Head Start and Early Head Start are comprehensive child development programs which serve children from birth to age 5, pregnant women, and their families. They are child-focused programs and have the overall goal of increasing the school readiness of young children in low-income families. Head Start and Early Head Start are programs of the Head Start Bureau, Administration on Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The link above also provides access to contact information for Head Start coordinating agencies in New Hampshire.
Children’s Health Insurance Program. The state children’s health insurance program is a public/private partnership (NH Healthy Kids) with the goal of providing access to health insurance for New Hampshire’s children.
Private (Foundation) Support
Endowment for Health - www.endowmentforhealth.org
The LanguageBank has received a grant from the Endowment for Health to improve access to healthcare by providing a high quality, comprehensive, sustainable language interpretation service. The Language Bank will assist both persons who are limited in their proficiency of English and staff at medical facilities/social service agencies to communicate without linguistic or cultural barriers.
New Hampshire Charitable Foundation- NHCF.org
The Multicultural Education Project, funded in part by NHCF, assists people across New Hampshire in understanding and appreciating cultural differences so they can work toward becoming more inclusive and welcoming communities.
Lutheran Church Missouri Synod - LCMS.org
A grant from LCMS funds the training of volunteers to work with newly arrived refugees, assisting in their transition to a new community.
IRRP HOME
Interfaith Refugee Resettlement
261 Sheep Davis Rd., A-1
Concord, NH 03301
(603) 224-8111 fx. 224-5473
amarchildon@lssne.org
