This federal grant will employ people, teach ESL and assist immigrants with the citizenship process. - - Donna Poisl
By Marie Mischel, Intermountain Catholic
SALT LAKE CITY — A $200,000 grant from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will allow Catholic Community Services to expand its outreach to immigrants and refugees seeking to become United States citizens, and also increase English Skills Learning Center of Salt Lake City’s ability to offer citizenship education.
CCS is Utah’s affiliate of Catholic Charities U.S.A. ESLC is a nonprofit organization that offers free English instruction to low-income adult immigrants and refugees. The two agencies partnered to apply for the federal grant, which was awarded in October and runs for two years.
"The goal is for us to have helped 300 individuals in a two-year period achieve citizenship," said Catherine Barnhart, ESLC executive director.
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