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Founded in 1946, Church World Service (CWS) is a non-profit and faith-based global humanitarian organization that provides just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty displacement and disaster. CWS has assisted more than 865,000 refugees and immigrants to start new lives in the U.S. and to integrate into their communities.
CWS is one of sixteen agencies contracted by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to welcome and provide Home Study and Post Release Services (HSPRS) to unaccompanied children (UC) throughout the United States. CWS was one of seven new HSPRS grantees in 2021. In addition to our Indianapolis office, CWS has HSPRS sites in the following locations: Houston, Dallas and Austin, TX; Tampa, Jacksonville, Miami, West Palm Beach and Ft. Lauderdale, FL; New York, NY; Walnut Creek, CA; Washington, DC; Charlotte, NC; Jersey City, NJ; Louisville, Kentucky; Seattle, Washington; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Winchester and Harrisonburg, Virginia. Through this program, unaccompanied children and their sponsors receive a scheme of core services designed to facilitate integration and empowerment among immigrant families in their new communities.
The Home Study/Post Release Services (HSPRS) program was launched in Indianapolis in 2022. While Church World Service has worked in Indianapolis for decades through its affiliate, Exodus Refugee Immigration, the HSPRS program in Indianapolis is a new location for CWS as an organization. Additional programs and events supporting the integration of newcomers in Indianapolis will be announced soon.
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