Economic Opportunity

The Agency for New Americans is a refugee resettlement agency in Boise, Idaho, that uses a holistic approach to assisting its refugee clients to get on the path to self-sufficiency and integration.

ANA’s Volunteer Coordinator is Mark Homco and he can be reached at mhomco@jannus.org and 208-955-0161

Provides tools and resources necessary for financial resilience to socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. We provide the knowledge to change, the support to grow and the confidence to succeed from asset development and credit building to financing and business planning.

English Language Center uses classroom and computer lab settings to conduct English language instruction for newly arrived refugees that will equip them to become self-sufficient in the future.

Global Gardens seeks opportunities to create community gardens that are physically, financially, and socially accessible and welcoming to low income and other underserved populations, including refugees. Initially the project focused on sites in neighborhoods where refugees reside.

Global Talent is a new workforce development initiative to enable skilled refugees and other immigrants to successfully integrate into professional roles in Idaho – to continue or reclaim their careers- and to help Idaho retain these talented professionals as key contributors to our state’s community and economy.

The Idaho Office for Refugees has statewide responsibility for administration of the state’s federally-funded refugee resettlement program.