Nyadak Pal Peace Foundation

 

“EDUCATE A WOMAN AND YOU WILL EDUCATE A NATION.”

 

PEACE FOUNDATION WELCOME CENTER 

                                    FOR INDIGEOUS PEOPLE 

The Peace Foundation (NPPF) was established in 2021 as a non-profit, tax-exempt 501c3 Community Based organization to respond to the needs of the South Sudanese community in the United States.  Since that time, we have expanded our mission and vision to be more inclusive to the needs of the growing indigenous Refugee Communities of Haitians, Venezuelans, Afghans, Cubans, and the aforesaid South Sudanese. 

Vision:  To help resettle Refugees and promote a safe, healthy, sustainable, and supportive services for the New American communities in Colorado. 

Mission:  To promote and ensure effective family self-sufficiency and well-being for the indigenous New Americans. The Peace Foundation (NPPF) share a similar core mission (local mission) to elevate, educate and empower the next generation of New Americans. 

To accomplish that the Nyadak Pal Peace Foundation support five pathways for indigenous refugees opportunity providing legal clinic for obtaining TPS (Temporary Protected Status),  asylum seekers, work permits, Health, Employment, Housing and Education.   

                             “LET’S WORK TOGETHER” 

The Peace Foundation partners with influential non-profits, community partners and civil leaders to develop initiatives that have proven instrumental in advancing Indigenous people’s recognition.   

Building Sustainable Wellbeing requires many materials.  To do so we partner with Global Refugee Solution, Urban Tikkun Centre, American Global Academy, Stride Health Center, Spring Institute, REACH, and Lutheran Family Services, Rocky Mountain Welcome Center and Village Exchange programs, Ready to Work – Aurora, The FAX housing program and Workforce Development Centers. Private and public sectors such as The ARC Thrift Stores, Goodwill and Denver International Airport and Hospitality Managements and many more.   Peace Foundation provides an extensive network of services and resources that ensure stability.   

Peace Foundation target newly arrived refugees or newly eligible ORR eligible indigenous populations, refugees who are receiving Basic Cash Assistance (BCA) from Temporary Assistance for needly families (TANF), known as Colorado Works or Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA) or those that are currently are experiencing destabilizing crises, which can include things that threaten families’ stability or can be issues such as domestic violence. Children welfare, mental health, or substance abuse.  Peace Foundation receives bundled services within domains that concurrently address the needs of the family.  Peace Foundation (NPPF) supports families in improving their socio-economic status, through engagement with families within their communities and support the development and well-being of children.   Successful implementation of programming depends on the adherence to contractor guideline, contractual agreements, practice manuals, policy memos and updates guidance, and most of all, the degree to which the program reflects the expectations, processes and overall intentions set forth in contractor’s guidelines. 

CORE VALUES: 

  • Deliver services that are effective and efficient. 
  • Utilize a holistic approach to refugee resettlement. 
  • Coordinate services and programs that support refugees and their larger receiving community working together. 
  • Build the social capital necessary to enhance a welcoming environment for refugees. 

KEY PROGRAM VALUES INCLUDE: 

  • Culturally and linguistically fluent. 
  • Family focused. 
  • Strengths based. 
  • Client-centered 
  • Research informed. 
  • Data driven. 
  • Deployed with fiscal integrity. 

Goals 

  • To welcome refugees to Colorado with supportive services that lead to early self-sufficiency and employment, social adjustment, educational and economic empowerment and healthy living. 
  • To engage with refugee families to help them move from arrival to initial stabilization and self-sufficiency in an array of domains; and  
  • To assist refugee families in attaining success in the first steps toward integration and set them up for success over the long term. 

Objectives 

  • To link families with educational services that result in appropriate child development; prepare adults for career pathways, and enable successful integration; 
  • To create and implement dynamic individualized plans that stabilize and support family, including by enabling learning opportunities (focused on economic; empowerment and early employment) target towards income stabilization and the potential for career advancement; 
  • To increase connections between refugees and their neighbors to integrate into and engage with their communities and to create opportunities for mainstream community members to interact meaningfully with refugees; and 
  • To provide supportive services for refugees that activate assets and mitigate barriers to integration. 

Benefits: 

  • Refugees receive bundled services that concurrently address all needs of the case; 
  • Refugees receive family-centered services that promote family well-being and community integration; 
  • Refugees attain stabilization and self-sufficiency across several domains; 
  • Refugees achieve economic empowerment, improving the overall health of the neighborhoods and communities in which they reside; 
  • Close partnerships develop between the family, community, and agency to achieve desired goals; 
  • Better integration of agency services, reduction of duplication of competing services 
  • Reception and place services dovetail into services ad activities funded under this Peace Foundation; and 
  • Other public and private resources support the overall goals of this program.