Community Refugee and Immigration Services

CRIS is an independent non-profit agency serving refugees and immigrants in central Ohio. Among local community-based organizations, CRIS is the largest agency providing services to immigrants in Central Ohio – and is the agency providing the most extensive services to immigrant populations in our area. Those services include immigration legal services and interpretation and translation.

CRIS has a staff of more than 70, with workers fluent in 26 languages (Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, ASL [American Sign Language], Dutch, English, French, Fulani, Hindi, Italian, Khmer, Lao, Maay-Maay, Oromifa, Portuguese, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Tigrinya, Tuni, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Wolof.)

CRIS’ multilingual, multicultural staff was chosen for the purpose of meeting the needs of the refugee and immigrant populations who have arrived the most recently, who are here in the greatest numbers, and who have the greatest service needs. The majority of our staff members came to the United States
as refugees or immigrants themselves.

CRIS Refugee Resettlement Program partners with Church World Service and Episcopal Migration Ministries to resettle refugees.

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