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Request for an ordinance authorizing the acceptance of funds from the non-profit organization, Lutheran Family Services of Colorado, to provide appropriate skills for unaccompanied minor refugees to enter adulthood and to achieve social self-sufficiency. Lutheran Family Services of Colorado has granted the Department of Human Services an award of $86,004.57 to supply staff in support of the Unaccompanied Refugee Minors Program. Lutheran Family Services is a private non-profit organization that provides various social support systems throughout the state of Colorado. The Unaccompanied Refugee Minors Program helps unaccompanied minor refugees develop appropriate skills to enter adulthood and to achieve social self-sufficiency. The goal is also to reunite unaccompanied minors, when possible, with parents or family.
Lutheran Family Services has a contract agreement with the CO Department of Human Services to provide refugee services to these youth. As part of that agreement they are...
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