About New Americans Center

New Americans Center is a resource center for Texas refugees and immigrants, particularly those in the greater Austin area. New Americans Center provides ongoing practical support, education and cultural orientation through people who understand both the refugees’ language and culture of origin. 

Refugees are placed in Texas communities with the help of the local state resettlement agencies and provide new arrivals with comprehensive assistance for three months. Three months of support is not enough to learn how to get along in a new society. Most refugees arrive with no belongings, don’t speak the language, don’t understand the culture, and they have lived with dislocation, terrible loss and fear for years.

In addition to offering a broad and continuing arrangement of basic support services, New Americans Center works with the refugee community to facilitate conciliation and healing and to build comfort with their new culture. We support and advocate for refugees in crisis. We create connections between the Texas receiving community and new arrivals.

New Americans Center works toward successful integration and self-sufficiency for its refugee clients.

New Americans (refugees) have come from hardship, war, persecution, and famine, but they are resilient. New Americans Center’s goal is to empower refugees to become leaders in their community and cultural ambassadors to their receiving community.