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CAPI, founded in 1982, provides refugee resettlement and anti-poverty services such as health education, job readiness and placements, housing and food assistance, youth violence prevention, social services for seniors, and community engagement to about 3,000 refugees and immigrants every year. Over 90% of our participants live at or twice below the poverty line.
Financially, we are supported by government, foundations, and individual donors. Eighty percent of our diverse staff and most of the Board of Directors and the Advisory Council are former refugees and immigrants. Our programs are implemented in four different sites in the Twin Cities metro area and the surrounding suburbs.
While CAPI has been known as a social services agency, organized around our mission to bring about change, seeking to fill service gaps and meet human needs that arise from poverty, inequality and injustice, we are transforming to integrate into our programs a social change agenda to make lasting impacts in its community.
We hold ourselves accountable to each other and our communities by engaging everyone, continually seeking ownership and involvement as we listen and reflect to be responsive and effective in our work. This, we believe, is the approach to create pathways for social change to build a better life for all of us.
Our Vision All refugees and immigrants lead successful lives and exercise fully their civic rights and responsibilities.
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