Contact:

Jenina Stewart 
SSCA Omaha (Southern Sudan Community Association) 
jstewart@sscaomaha.org 
402-554-0759 

When

Thursday September 18, 2014 from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM CDT

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Where

Scott Conference Center 
6450 Pine Street
Omaha, NE 68106
 

 
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Second Annual Diversity and Inclusion Conference 

Join SSCA Omaha and collaborators for this informative conference.  Hear from Omaha's diverse refugee community members. See how collaborations have grown in the inner city to provide inclusion and integration.  Learn how you can become involved.  Embrace diversity and inclusion in Omaha!

Morning Schedule:  The process, people and places they came from

8:30     Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00     Welcoming Comments

9:15     Omaha is a federally designated refugee resettlement City – What does that mean?  What are the required services?  What are the support services for self-sufficiency and integration?

9:45     Who are the refugee people, the places they came from, how are they integrating?

11:00   Refugee panel – Questions and discussion

11:15   Break and visit agency information booths

11:30   Luncheon and Presentation - Restoring Dignity’s Hannah Wyble - Restoring dignity and hope
in the lives of struggling refugee families here in the Omaha area.

12:45   Afternoon Schedule:  The partnerships, collaborations and directions they are going

2:45     Table Topics and Discussion, Local Refugee Businesses, Rising Students Club

4:15     Closing Comments