Forming and Sustaining Effective Partnerships for Immigrant Integration and Inclusion
Partnership is essential for developing cohesive and holistic services for immigrants that promote immigrant integration and inclusion. The strategies described in this spotlight support the formation and ongoing maintenance of partnerships that are mutually beneficial for organizations and provide more streamlined, effective, or comprehensive services for adult learners.
Integrated English Literacy and Civics Education (IELCE) providers play a key role in supporting the civic, economic, and linguistic integration for immigrants and multilingual learners. IELCE activities support integration in these areas through improved English language proficiency and the acquisition of the skills “needed to function effectively as parents, workers, and citizens in the United States.”
Given the varied and significant needs of immigrants and multilingual learners and the complexity of the immigrant integration and inclusion process, adult education programs providing IELCE activities cannot achieve this mission alone. Instead, “a constellation of organizations must be deliberately bridged in a way that leverages their unique strengths in order to achieve immigrant integration.”
This spotlight introduces considerations for forming partnerships and examines seven essential elements of sustaining effective partnerships to support immigrant integration and inclusion, particularly in IELCE and other adult education activities. The spotlight includes suggestions for implementing the essential elements and shares examples of how state adult education agencies and adult education programs/IELCE providers have used these strategies.
This spotlight is beneficial for all adult education programs and organizations looking to expand or improve partnerships with other service providers to promote immigrant integration and inclusion.
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