Who Are Refugee Children?
The Illinois Department of Human Services is the recipient
of a Refugee Children School Impact Grant from the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services to provide social and educational
services to Illinois’ school-age refugee population.
The Consortium of Refugee Social Service Agencies provides
direct services to schools that have enrolled refugee students.
Refugees are individuals who enter the United States under
the Immigration and Naturalization Service classification
of refugee. They or their parents may have come from
any of the following countries:
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Albania
- Burkina Faso
- Burma
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Congo
- Cuba
- Djibouti
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Haiti
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ivory Coast
- Kenya
- Kuwait
- Laos
- Liberia
- Nigeria
- Romania
- Rwanda
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Syria
- Togo
- Uganda
- USSR (former): (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia,
Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova,
Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)
- Vietnam
- Yugoslavia (former): (Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia,
Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia)
- Zaire
For more information about the program, please contact Sherry
Johnson at (312) 814-3850 or sjohnson@isbe.net
or Carol Rech
at (312) 793-7120.
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