Sec. 1529. Community partnerships, civic engagement, and refugee leadership development
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The Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration shall fund a full-time employee, to be known as a Community Relations Officer , with each State contracted for resettlement whose position will focus on building community partnerships, encouraging diverse attendance at community consultations, and organizing community consultations. The Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration is authorized to make grants to, and enter into contracts with, State and local governments to implement this section.
The responsibilities of a Community Relations Officer shall be— to consider opportunities to encourage regular consultation among diverse stakeholders, such as by refugees, State Refugee Coordinators and health coordinators, resettlement agencies, and other service organizations and Ethnic Community Based Organizations; to support civic engagement of refugees and refugee leadership development; and to consider methods to expand outreach to asylees to ensure asylee access to services.