Vision

We envision Connecticut as a place where newcomers may fully participate in our culturally diverse communities, where low-income families may have access to affordable immigration services and be reunited with family, where survivors of crime and persecution may have the resources needed to become self-supporting and healed and where ethnic diversity is valued as a cultural and economic strength by all.

Goals

1. 1.Refugee Services – Resettlement services and case management for newly arriving refugees up to five years after arrival, including assistance with housing, employment services, achieving financial and social self-sufficiency, adjustment of status, and providing refugee children and youth programming and education.
2. 2.Project Rescue - Comprehensive legal and social services for victims of human trafficking in collaboration with social services and law enforcement partners; extensive education and outreach efforts to address and prevent human trafficking; supportive services for unaccompanied immigrant minors.
3. 3.Immigration Legal Services - Statewide immigration legal services including family reunification, naturalization, visas for victims of domestic violence, and asylum applications. CIRI is licensed by the nationally recognized Immigration Legal Resource Center to deliver its 40-hour immigration law training.