The IRCM receives referrals from service providers and the community to assist New Mainers in obtaining essential resources and assistance, like benefits, housing, food, transportation, and winter clothing, through staff efforts and diverse delivery methods.

IRCM provides monthly community education workshops and digital/physical resources based on introductory information on local resources, schools, employment opportunities, housing, and legal matter for newly arrived refugees, secondary migrants, and asylum seekers.

IRCM supports and guides New Mainers through local systems by ensuring community access to trained, qualified people. IRCM’s culturally competent interpreters use their knowledge of local institutional structures and rules to establish a cultural bridge of understanding from the New Mainer community to mainstream providers, law enforcement, local school systems, DV/SA nonprofits, healthcare officials, and […]

The IRCM develops, presents, and promotes culturally and linguistically specific educational material and programming for different local ethnic communities to dispel FGM myths. The IRCM’s work has made FGM almost non-existent within the New Mainer community.