The Wausau area is currently home to approximately 180 refugees settled during the last two years. The increasing influx of refugees face significant barriers to successful integration into the community. The ECDC Multicultural Center (ECDC) has identified some of the top barriers as inaccessible transportation, language barriers, and inability to secure employment with income able to support their families. The focus of our project is to propose interventions aimed at addressing these barriers based on interventions that have been successfully implemented in comparable communities,
identify barriers to employment from the perspectives of both refugees and employers, and design interventions to connect refugees to viable employment.
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