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Around the Agency - News From LCS
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| LCS’ Multicultural Community Services program is providing summer ESL classes to refugee students in the Portland area through its Multnomah County School Impact Project. The classes target middle school age youth who have not previously had access to these services during the summer months. |
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| Members of the community joined with LCS staff on June 23rd to honor the resilience and courage of refugees by participating in the Footsteps to Freedom World Refugee Day Walk. World Refugee Day focuses global attention on the plight of refugees, the causes of their exile, and the contribution they make to their new communities. Proceeds from the 5 K walk through Portland’s Laurelhurst Park benefited LCS’ Immigrant and Refugee Services. |
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| Klamath Falls |
| LCS’ Klamath Counseling Center has launched an innovative new Family Life Skills program – Relationships Across the Lifespan. The program provides classes, workshops, group counseling and resources to help individuals of all ages, couples and families build and maintain positive, loving relationships. Topics include Cooperative Parenting, Grandparenting, Premarital Counseling and Famlies Living a Sober Life. |
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A Main Street parade and festival in Veteran’s Park were highlights of Klamath Falls’ Cinco de Mayo celebration, coordinated by LCS’ Hispanic Advisory Board in partnership with local businesses and organizations. The festivities drew more than 1,000 people. |
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| More than 70 people attended “A Day Well Spent”, LCS’ Cascade People’s Center’s first-ever fund-raising dinner and silent auction in March, bringing in more than $5,500 to support the center’s programs and resources serving the Cascade neighborhood just south of Lake Union. |
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| Lynnwood |
The fifth annual Multicultural Fair, organized by LCS’ Family Support Center of South Snohomish County, drew record crowds to the Lynnwood Convention Center in April. The event showcased ethnic art, food, music and dance. Cambodia, China, Germany, Italy, Korea, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Scotland, Ukraine and Vietnam were just some of the countries represented. |
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| LCS’ Columbia Basin office has expanded its services to at-risk youth and their families with the recent launch of the new SWIFT (Stabililation and Wellness in Families Together) Program. Building on the success of the office’s 3 Rivers Wraparound Project, the SWIFT Program’s primary goal is to help children and teens in crisis avoid psychiatric hospitalization. |
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