Mount Kisco 'cultural competency' program's goal: immigrants' integration, not assimilation

Police, churches, hospitals and community groups are working together to help immigrants better understand the community they live in.   - - Donna Poisl

by ALEX WEISLER

MOUNT KISCO — In working with the village’s approximately 4,000 immigrants, Neighbors Link Executive Director Carola Otero Bracco said the goal is integration, not complete assimilation.

It’s a fine line, but that distinction — encouraging immigrant communities to interact with institutions on their own terms — is at the core of an innovative “cultural competency” training program developed by local organizations.
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