Reach Out & Lend a Hand

You are needed.

Thank you so much for your interest in helping refugees in our area.
​Please subscribe below and we will keep you up to date on our ongoing needs.

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Join the list here. Sign up and stay up to date on volunteer needs. 

Please tell anyone you know who cares about the fate and well-being of the thousands of refugees currently living in our area about LexRAP to learn about the work that we do.

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More About Volunteering

Who are our volunteers?

LexRAP volunteers  support and assist refugees and asylum seekers to integrate into American society. This assistance would include a support network for shelter, food, clothing, transportation, health care, education (especially English), employment, legal aid, and socialization. Beneficiaries of this assistance will be all people legally seeking or having received permission to live in the U.S., either temporarily or permanently.

​Please join us.

How you can help:

• Legal services, such as assisting with immigration issues
• Housing, such as helping individuals or families find temporary accommodations or long-term housing
• Hosting, an individual asylee or family
• Transportation, such as providing rides to doctor or other scheduled appointments
• Agency liaison – identifying appropriate support agencies, advocate
• Job placement – offering or helping identify employment opportunities, helping prepare a resume
• Foster family for an unaccompanied minor
• Translator services (especially Arabic)
• Tutoring - English and math
• Child care – providing directly or organizing
• Socialization support – community orientation, integration with local society, connections to ethnic and cultural communities
• ​Point-person for their congregation or organization to coordinate additional volunteer resources
• Fundraising and outreach​

We also need help with: marketing, communications, fundraising and we need writers! Any general help would be terrific! Use the form to let us know that you want to come to a meeting.