Assists all refugees; provides programs for ESL, transportation, cultural orientation, and employment. Helps refugees learn to live and work in the United States.

Services include:

-- English as a Second Language.

-- Employment skills class.

-- Interpreters available to go with refugees to medical appointments or hospitals.

-- Advocacy.

-- Coordinates health and human services, ESL classes, housing with OHA, citizenship, drivers' licenses and classes, etc.

-- Public speaking.

-- Job placement for refugees.

-- Refugee resettlement from another country to Omaha.

-- Support groups.

-- Youth program.

Provides a collaboration between the City of Manchester and Northeast Iowa Community College. The focus of the Manchester Center is to make quality education accessible to the greater Manchester area by helping students achieve their educational goals and working with local businesses to retain and grow their workforce.

The Manchester facility offers a Health Lab, as well as a classroom for business and professional development trainings.

Literacy, basic skills, GED, and ESL classes for students of other cultures.

Adult and continuing education programs.

Adult basic education.

Classes also meet at the following location:

Ord - Ord Learning Center, 1514 K Street, Suite 1; call (308) 728-3299 for information.

Community college.

GED preparation and testing.

ESL - English as a Second language classes.

Adult basic education, including literacy, job seeking, and life skills education.

Citizenship preparation.

Tutors available in various locations in the Panhandle.

Single parent / displaced homemaker program provides career counseling, dependent care, non-traditional training, skills training, technology training, books and tuition, personal counseling, support groups, and transportation. Contact a student services advisor for information.

Veterans Upward Bound programs offer intensive basic skills development and short-term remedial courses for military veterans to help them successfully transition to post-secondary education.

Citizenship classes.

Offers basic reading, writing and math skills for adults. Available day and evening.

Reading specialists who work with adults to improve their reading comprehension, speed, or vocabulary at any level.

Offers a program to improve basic reading, writing, math, life skills, and employability. The class English as a Second Language is also offered. Volunteer tutoring available.