St. Rita Center for Immigrant and Refugee Services

St. Rita Center for Immigrant and Refugee Services Our goal is to help each person to build skills to gain confidence in dealing with daily life. Let us continue to work for peace and justice for all! St. Rita's.

Rita's Center for Immigrant and Refugee Services, a program of the Tolentine Zeiser Community Life Center, has brought new hope to newcomers for the past 30+ years. Rita's Asian Center began serving primarily those fleeing the Cambodian-Vietnamese War, who began arriving in the Bronx in 1979. In April 1984, it moved from a small room in the basement of St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church to its prese

nt location in the former Augustinian convent. In 1985, St. Rita's formally became a program within the Tolentine Zeiser Community Life Center. As the refugees continued fleeing their war-torn homelands into the early 1990s, St. Rita's expanded its services to include improved social work, the start of citizenship classes, and even putting over 25 young women through Aquinas High School. In 1992, St. Rita's welcomed a new wave of refugees fleeing Ethiopia, the former Soviet Union, the Bosnian War. The following year, St. Rita's changed its name to St. Rita's Center for Immigrant and Refugee Services. In the mid-1990s, St. Rita's opened a satellite office in Brighton Beach (Brooklyn) and in Astoria (Queens) to assist the recent arrivals of refugees in those areas. In 1999, St. Rita's began serving the influx of Kosovo Albanians fleeing the Kosovo War. At this point, St. Rita's had five locations: Astoria (Queens), Brighton Beach (Brooklyn), Theodore Roosevelt High School (Bronx), Walton High School (Bronx), and the main office (Bronx). At the beginning of the new millennium, a large group from Mexico, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, and Colombia settled near St. Along with recent migrants from Africa and the Middle East, St. Rita's is truly a place where people from every continent are welcome!

03/14/2016

For many women living in the US illegally, fear of the police is greater than the fear of their abusive partners.

Yasmin set off alone on a horribly risky voyage to Europe, which took her across the Sahara desert and Libya, two death ...
03/14/2016

Yasmin set off alone on a horribly risky voyage to Europe, which took her across the Sahara desert and Libya, two death traps for refugees. The journey was especially difficult for Yasmin, whose legs had been badly maimed two years earlier, when her home in Mogadishu was caught in crossfire between the army and Al-Shabaab.

Jesuit Refugee Service/USA is an international Catholic non-governmental organization whose mission is to accompany, serve and advocate for the rights of refugees and other forcibly displaced persons.

Are you living in and in need of or assistance? Applying for SNAP is now easier. Go to http://foodhelp.nyc
02/26/2016

Are you living in and in need of or assistance? Applying for SNAP is now easier. Go to http://foodhelp.nyc

"United Nations officials estimate that many more Syrian refugees will leave Iraq for Syria, or to other countries in 20...
02/24/2016

"United Nations officials estimate that many more Syrian refugees will leave Iraq for Syria, or to other countries in 2016."

Up to 25,000 Syrian refugees left the Kurdistan region of Iraq last year and headed home to their war-ravaged country, worn down by years of hardship in exile.

Chinese immigrants are now the third-largest foreign-born group in the U.S. Most from China have settled in California...
02/22/2016

Chinese immigrants are now the third-largest foreign-born group in the U.S. Most from China have settled in California and New York.

With the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1943 and normalization of U.S.-China relations in the late 1970s, Chinese immigration to the United States has steadily increased, to a population of more than 2 million. Using the latest data, this Spotlight highlights characteristics of Chinese immig…

What we know,What are just rumors, andWhat rights do you have during a raidFor questions, call the NYS New Americans Hot...
02/22/2016

What we know,
What are just rumors, and
What rights do you have during a raid
For questions, call the NYS New Americans Hotline at 1-800-566-7636. Calls are anonymous.

Conozca sus derechos: Obtenga más información sobre las redadas de ICE (Nueva York)
Presentación Informacional de las Redadas de Inmigración:
Lo que sabemos,
Lo que son rumores,
¿Cuáles son sus derechos durante una redada.
Si tiene preguntas sobre posible redadas?
Llame a la Linea para los Nuevos Americanos del Estado de Nueva York al 1-800-566-7636.
Las llamadas son anónimas.

What we know, What are just rumors, and What rights do you have during a raid For questions, call the NYS New Americans Hotline at 1-800-566-7636. Calls are anonymous. Conozca sus derechos: Obtenga más información sobre las redadas de ICE (Nueva York) Presentación Informacional de las Redadas de…

The U.S. would lose approximately 2.8 million jobs if all immigrants were deported.
02/20/2016

The U.S. would lose approximately 2.8 million jobs if all immigrants were deported.

The Political and Economic Power of Immigrants, Latinos, and Asians in the United States (Updated 2015) Download the Fact Sheet Download the Infographic

Some say the conditions in Finland and the lengthy asylum process did not meet their expectations, or what they had been...
02/19/2016

Some say the conditions in Finland and the lengthy asylum process did not meet their expectations, or what they had been told by the people they paid for their travel,' said Tobias van Treeck, programme officer at the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Thousands of Iraqi refugees who arrived in Finland last year have decided to cancel their asylum applications and to return home voluntarily.

Don’t fear your taxes! If you earn $62K or less, you may qualify for New York City Department of Consumer Affairs
02/17/2016

Don’t fear your taxes! If you earn $62K or less, you may qualify for New York City Department of Consumer Affairs

"Imagine your child leaving home, traveling across treacherous lands filled with cartels, a young girl alone. With the c...
02/15/2016

"Imagine your child leaving home, traveling across treacherous lands filled with cartels, a young girl alone. With the cash she would need to pay her way, saved, borrowed, begged from an entire village in abject poverty."

Detroit -- I accompanied a teenager to immigration court. She is one of the thousands of unaccompanied youth who traveled alone from Guatemala to Detroit. She was detained in Arizona and allowed to come here because she has family members here.

Address

2342 Andrews Avenue # 1
New York, NY
10468

Opening Hours

Tuesday 9am - 2pm
Wednesday 9am - 2pm
Thursday 9am - 2pm

Telephone

+17183654390

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when St. Rita Center for Immigrant and Refugee Services posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Shortcuts

Share

Category