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City of Angels
Center for Newcomers
Presentation before the City Council | City of Los Angeles

Executive Director: Andrew Hill

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City of Angels Center for Newcomers

Robert F. Kennedy
Community
High School

2 classrooms

3 offices
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Located inside Koreatown

Koreatown

115,000 people

68% foreign-born

South Korea most

common place of
foreign birth
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Who We Serve

NK Refugees (30)

Age 18 25

Emergent
Language
Proficiency

Documented &
undocumented
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Our Staff

Administrators
Exec Director
Admin Asst

Staff
2 ESL Teachers
4 AmeriCorps Members
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Training and Resources

IRC in Los Angeles

Interfaith Refugee
and Immigration
Services

Episcopal Migration
Ministries

Church World Service

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Training and Resources

Age assessment awareness

and working with age-
disputed young people

Emotional well-being of
refugee children and young
people

Trauma-Informed Care
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Language Delivery

Program Type
English as a Second Language (ESL)

Language and Literacy Social Studies

2 levels: Beginner (20) and Intermediate (10) 2 level: Beginner (20) and Intermediate (10)
Days: M/W/ F Days: T/Th

Experiential-Learning Field Trip

Day: Saturday
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Looking Forward
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Chang, H. (1990). Newcomer Programs: Innovative Efforts to Meet the Educational Challenges of Immigrant Students . San Francisco, CA: California
Tomorrow.

Complete list of training courses. (n.d.). Retrieved April 29, 2017, from
https://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/training_conferences/training/complete_list

Custodio, B. (2011). How to design and implement a newcomer program. Boston: Pearson.

Koreatown. (n.d.). Retrieved May 03, 2017, from http://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/neighborhood/koreatown/

Lindahl, K. Defining Newcomer Populations. Retrieved from Blackboard.

Lindahl, K. Interruped Formal Schooling. Retrieved from Blackboard.

Moll, L. C., Amanti, C., Neff, D., & Gonzalez, N. (1992). Funds of knowledge for teaching: Using a qualitative approach to connect homes and
classrooms. Theory Into Practice,31(2), 132-141.