Basic Computer Skills Classes for Senior Immigrants
Welcome to Accent Network’s Basic Computer Skills Classes, specially tailored for senior immigrants.
Through a combination of short video tutorials and free in-person classes, we guide you through the fundamentals, starting from the basics, such as using a mouse and teaching you proper ergonomics to avoid eye or neck strain. We then progressed to more advanced skills, including an in-depth understanding of the desktop environment and how to utilize Microsoft Office programs like Excel, Access, and Outlook effectively.
By mastering these foundational skills, senior immigrants can utilize various programs and applications to connect with their doctors, participate in virtual events, and enjoy video calls with their loved ones.
Immigrant and Refugee Assistance Program :
All people deserve the right to build safe lives, especially in a new country. However, many immigrants encounter obstacles and prejudices when relocating, integrating, and assimilating into new communities.
Immigrant and refugee communities are experiencing concerns about safety and barriers to accessing primary care, behavioral health services and community-based supports critical to helping them and their families thrive.
The Accent Network provides a variety of free support services to immigrants and refugees families arriving in Oregon, regardless of status, such as:
- The Application Form Assistance program.
- School enrollment assistance
- Workforce readiness tools, including resume writing, digital literacy skills, and credentialing evaluation
- Financial Wellness Program
- Starting a business in Oregon
Financial Wellness Program:
- Series of workshops to help immigrant and refugees learn
-basic savings strategies,
-design a personal/family budget,
-develop debt management
– how to manage and build credit.
- One-on-One Coaching Works Program
Counseling Program for a Newcomers:
The significant barriers immigrants face are lack of US work experience, lack of work contacts, language skills, and recognition of foreign credentials. At the same time, employers want immigrant employees to have good language skills and an understanding of the US workplace culture. Each immigrant, refugees, asylum seeker who enrolls in the program will have access to various counseling programs.
Depending on the participant’s needs and goals, the participant can receive the:
- Assessment of skills, qualifications, and experience
- Information, advice, and guidance to help build a career plan
- Information on how to look for work and on US workplace culture.
- Language skills and upgrading of other skills required by employers in the industry.
- Certification requirements for regulated occupations and connections with regulatory agencies.
- Financial support to help with necessary upgrading.
Help Immigrants to Start a Business in Oregon
There are challenges to starting a business no matter who you are, but immigrants certainly face some unique ones.
ACCENT NETWORK hosts various events that respond to business trends, needs, and growth.
Business development training is designed to meet immigrants and refugees needs at any entrepreneur stage: from developing an idea to expanding an existing business.
- Business Plan Workshop
- Record Keeping
- Immigrant Women in Business
- Small Business Pitch Competition
Environmental Education Program for immigrants and refugees:
Immigrants’ environmental learning is directly related to their perceived connections to the local community and environment. Environmental care is inherently a North American value.
Our Culturally Relevant Environmental Education Program focuses on helping immigrants become socialized to new norms. Our environment work will focus on raising newcomer’s awareness of climate change by providing opportunities to learn about it and what actions to take.
Environmental Education Program engages immigrants through Events, Public Programs, Art Exhibits, and Community Partnerships with non-formal environmental education programs.
Environmental Volunteers’ Nature Walks program is designed to help immigrants get to know our local city parks and open space areas. We offer interpretive hikes led by local experts on topics such as local birds, wildflowers, and trees on the trails..
Arts & Culture Initiatives:
Highlighting the contributions of immigrants in arts & culture to create positive narrative change:
Film festivals: We are shooting and screening films focusing on social justice and immigrant issues.
Educational outreach: Accent Network partners with schools and universities to provide educational resources and materials that help to promote greater understanding and empathy for immigrant communities.
Theatrical and community screenings: By partnering with community organizations and theaters, ACCENT NETWORK hosts screenings of social justice films and videos targeted explicitly to immigrant communities.
Social media: By sharing content on platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram, our organization promotes greater awareness and understanding of immigrant experiences and challenges.
Community Development Program :
Community Development Program is dedicated to creating an actual community resource center that advocates for immigrants by promoting integration and self-sufficiency and delivering the needed services, which helps navigate the health system, social services, and legal system to survive and thrive.
We work to ensure that immigrants and refugees have a voice in local decision-making processes that affect their lives. This involve providing translation services, organizing community meetings, and building relationships with local government officials to ensure that the needs and concerns of migrants and refugees are being heard.
We help to foster social connections among migrants and refugees and the wider community. This involve organizing social events, cultural festivals, and community service projects that bring people from different backgrounds together and promote understanding and mutual respect.
