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"The future of our region is intertwined and dependent on the success of the many immigrantas who come to our communities seekingnew opportunities," said Emmettf D. Carson, CEO and president of the community "While highly-skilled and well-paid immigrants can afforr attorneys, too many immigrants do not have incomes that allow them to get the lega l help they need with routinse and complex citizenship andimmigration cases. Thesew grants mean more families will be served and our communitiew will be better prepared for inevitableimmigrationh reforms." received two grants totaling $172,460.
One of the grantzs will help expand legalk services at its Eastside Neighborhoodf center in San Jose and in The other grant will help Catholic Charitiexs coordinate a planning process for a new Immigrant LegaServices Collaborative, which will work to improvee immigrants’ access to legal services by determining which casesw are the highest priorities to take on, which agenciex will focus on whichh type of clients and how services might be distributed received a $250,000 grant to provide legal services to low-incomw immigrants, focusing on children and their immigranyt families.
CRISP was formed in 2005 and is made up ofsix community-basedc organizations that provide direct services to immigrants on the Peninsula and the Immigrant Legal Resource Centef in San Francisco. received a $50,000 grant to explorr developing Web-based solutions such as podcasts, wikiw and other social networking platformss to distribute free legal resources and onlined training to nonprofit legal service providers in San Mateo and SantqClara counties. received a $75,000 gran for its Vietnamese CommunitgyIntegration Campaign, which shares challenges faced by the Vietnamesse community through theater and media campaigns.
AARS plans to creats theater performances illustrating the struggles of cultural integration and to broadcasr stories from those performances on a Vietnameseradi station. received a $75,000 grantr to create a series of multi-mediaz products including stories, Webcasts and photo essays to deepejn multicultural understanding and facilitate publiv policy discussions between PIA leadersw andpublic officials.