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in the mid-1970s, it expanded to assist large numbers of Jewish refugees from the former USSR, approximately 250,000 by 2004. But it also served non-Jewish refugees, beginning in 1972 with
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school, vocational training, and licensing courses in addition to legal help with immigration and adjustment. As the number of refugees from the former Soviet Union declined, it reshaped itself under the direction of Jose
Valencia, who held many internal leadership positions before being appointed
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CEO in 2004, to serve the broader immigrant population, also offering citizenship assistance, a center for women and families, a mental-health clinic, and a substance-abuse program and programs in workforce and economic development, community development, and bi-culturation.
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in the late 1940s, was hired as director and a fund-raising dinner was held, but it raised only about $ 50,000 and the decision was made to close the agency in summer 2008. Legal assistance cases were transferred to
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method used to teach Hebrew to new immigrants in Israel and using a short in-house textbook. Teachers were recruited from the performing arts community and included
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NYANA sought from its inception to provide one-stop services to refugees, including assistance finding housing, health, mental health and family services, an
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The NYANA English School taught incoming refugees as much
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