Program Mission:

The Giving + Learning Program, with the support of Catholic Health Initiatives and Riverview Place, strives to build a healthy community through providing new Americans with mentors necessary for them to succeed in a new culture and community. Through communication practice and pairing of new Americans with mentors that will help them work toward goal achievement, the Giving + Learning program provides each individual with the resources required to achieve both short and long term goals.

The Giving + Learning Program is a nonprofit organization that pairs new Americans with volunteer mentors in the community, to practice English skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking. Programs such as this are vital to the development of a healthy community. The Giving + Learning Program works to help individuals practice English and adapt to an unfamiliar culture and way of living. The Giving + Learning Program provides the structure for connecting a new American asking for help with a volunteer mentor.

The Giving + Learning Program helps each new American to attain personal goals: skills for education, work force and community accomplishments include driver’s license, citizenship test passing, and Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA and Certification) class completion to name a few.