Welcome to Center for Africa Services. We are a comprehensive source of support services and community linkage for African immigrants, refugees and other immigrant victims of torture in New York City. We at CAS understand that the African immigrant community remains misrepresented in the overall immigrant population in New York City. The misrepresentation is embedded in the minimum understanding of the culturally diverse nature of the African community as evident in the way it is aligned with other groups with which it may have culturally different needs. Although the concerns and treatment of minorities as a group still remain a politically heated phenomenal, African immigrants are either never heard of or spoken about. Some of these can be attributed to the undue psychological and psychosocial challenges that the new system of life pose to us, we as a community in part, have never spoken up or we have spoken the least. Most of the challenges we experience as a community go a long way into our sojourn in the host neighborhoods and the larger community, and affect our quest for desirable employment, advancement, friendship and the contribution to our new home. The raison d'etre of CAS is in our understanding of working with the intricate concerns and challenges of the immigration system as well as the transitional process of adjusting to life in New York City.
This is why our professional team is made up of individuals with hands-on experience like most other immigrants--settling in a country where you are like a new borne person and needing to start your life all over—at the same time attending to the cultural and family obligation back in the motherland. Our philosophy is responding to the needs of the immigrant as a whole person and the whole community rather than to isolated segments of your life or the needs of institutions. Our programs are comprehensive and cover an array of basic social and safety net services including welfare, legal, skills training, vocational, and educational services in addition to serving a variety of health functions such as school health programs, medical and dental screening, maternal and child health care, immunizations, mental health services, family planning and counseling, and simple emergency care.
I do believe in CAS increased interest in the implementation of customized programs for refugee survivors of torture as well as other migrants. From your personal experience, you may agree that our mission is not a simple undertaking. We need your help to support our cause in providing timely and needy care for the African immigrant community. Our community participation reflects some core principles of our unique values. With your every little support and donations, our program can further make possible a collaborative service delivery model with emphasis on psychosocial counseling and facilitated community capacity building that addresses the complex needs of African immigrants, refugee and immigrant survivors of torture.
Help a needy African immigrant today. There's nothing greater than helping a member of your community becoming independent. Help us help others! We can not do this all by ourselves, we need your support. Thank you and welcome to CAS!