The African Community Center - Denver, CO - Helping Refugees and Asylees From All Countries Integrate Into the Denver Community

The African Community Center is Denver's newest Refugee Resettlement program which welcomes newcomers who have had to flee persecution within their home country. Many of our clients arrive in the United States with little but possess great hope about their lives in America.

The African Community Center conducts educational and social service programs that help newcomers resettle in their new communities and acculturate, recover from past trauma, gain personal independence and economic self-sufficiency, and quickly become able participants and productive, contributing members of American society. In addition, our agency works with African community-based organizations to provide technical assistance in developing the leadership capacity to serve their respective communities.

Our community outreach also promotes awareness about refugee issues and the challenges faced by newcomers as they move through the resettlement and cultural adjustment process. The African Community Center engages newcomers and members of the wider community to enhance cross-cultural communication.

The African Community Center of Denver is a Program office of the Ethiopian Community Development Council Inc. (ECDC), a community based Organization headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. ECDC is a 501 (c) (3), non profit organization.

URGENT Food Need: The Food stamp office is experiencing serious delays in approving food stamp benefits for Refugees who have no other means to access food when they first arrive. ACC is urging community groups to donate dried food donations including rice, beans and pasta, and toiletries to provide to families experiencing food shortages. Grocery cards are gratefully accepted.

ECDC Conference: This year’s conference theme will explore many pressing refugee and immigrant issues that African newcomers face today while taking special care to reflect on the generations of Africans who now call the U.S. home. As the African newcomer population in the United State continues to grow, we hope that this conference will provide an educational tool and unique opportunity to reflect on various African refugee and immigrant issues. For more information click here.

Our WEEKLY Community Dinners are held EVERY TUESDAY EVENING from 6pm-8pm. Anyone is welcome to come. These evenings are pot-luck community gatherings meant to bring the local community together with new refugee families arriving in the Denver area. Come and meet your new neighbors, extend a welcome to a stranger and have a GREAT meal!! Childcare is available. For more information, call ACC at 303 399-4500

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