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In 2014, President Barack Obama declared June to be National Immigrant Heritage Month. It’s a relatively new celebration, but it’s starting to catch fire. 2016 is its third year, and now many celebrities, everyday people, and organizations have stepped into the spotlight to showcase their culture and their #immigrantpride.
Here in our county, OneMacomb has been leading efforts to promote inclusion and diversity for many years, and now Immigrant Heritage Month is one more stepping stone in that process. OneMacomb leader Pam Lavers says, “By listening to our neighbors tell their stories, we can better understand them and cooperate with them.”
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Every quarter, they host a Diversity Lunch and Learn, which allows participants to explore food, stories, and artifacts from a foreign culture during their lunch hour.
In addition to Lunch and Learns, OneMacomb produces county signage in different languages, and hosts diversity summits, school outreach programs, storytelling events at local museums, and educational video screenings. Later this month, Pam Lavers will be working with the White House on their Building Welcoming Communities campaign.
But OneMacomb’s biggest event is Welcoming Week, which runs this year from September 16th-25th. Welcoming Week is a national campaign to celebrate communities’ immigrant integration efforts, and in Macomb County it includes a naturalization ceremony. This year, there are expected to be approximately 160 new American citizens at the ceremony, nearly twice as many as last year.
OneMacomb recently received a national matching grant to develop a plan to make our county more welcoming to immigrants and refugees. The grant will help OneMacomb provide “language classes, jobs, and entrepreneurial opportunities” to immigrants, which will help make the community “more vibrant socially, culturally, and economically,” according to
In 2014, President Barack Obama declared June to be National Immigrant Heritage Month. It’s a relatively new celebration, but it’s starting to catch fire. 2016 is its third year, and now many celebrities, everyday people, and organizations have stepped into the spotlight to showcase their culture and their #immigrantpride.
Here in our county, OneMacomb has been leading efforts to promote inclusion and diversity for many years, and now Immigrant Heritage Month is one more stepping stone in that process. OneMacomb leader Pam Lavers says, “By listening to our neighbors tell their stories, we can better understand them and cooperate with them.”
There are many reasons it’s important …show more content…
Every quarter, they host a Diversity Lunch and Learn, which allows participants to explore food, stories, and artifacts from a foreign culture during their lunch hour.
In addition to Lunch and Learns, OneMacomb produces county signage in different languages, and hosts diversity summits, school outreach programs, storytelling events at local museums, and educational video screenings. Later this month, Pam Lavers will be working with the White House on their Building Welcoming Communities campaign.
But OneMacomb’s biggest event is Welcoming Week, which runs this year from September 16th-25th. Welcoming Week is a national campaign to celebrate communities’ immigrant integration efforts, and in Macomb County it includes a naturalization ceremony. This year, there are expected to be approximately 160 new American citizens at the ceremony, nearly twice as many as last year.
OneMacomb recently received a national matching grant to develop a plan to make our county more welcoming to immigrants and refugees. The grant will help OneMacomb provide “language classes, jobs, and entrepreneurial opportunities” to immigrants, which will help make the community “more vibrant socially, culturally, and economically,” according to