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The Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning is the Coordinating Agency for the SIRFI: Immigrant Integration project which is an initiative of The Colorado Trust. The initiative is a 10-year (2000-2010), $18 million effort. Current funding supports 19 Colorado communities (10 communities began receiving support in 2004; an additional nine communities received grants in 2006) in their efforts to support immigrants and established residents in working together for healthy communities.

Supporting Immigrant Integration Resources

Click here for a printable overview of the SIRFI initiative.

SIRFI Initiative brochure: available in both English and Spanish this brochure briefly outlines the history and current status of immigrants in the U.S. and in Colorado, and gives an overview of The Colorado Trust's Immigrant Integration Initiative underway in 19 Colorado Communities.

Download brochure in English (PDF)
Download brochure in Spanish (PDF)

Additional information on the initiative can be found at The Colorado Trusts' website www.thecoloradotrust.org or by emailing Spring Institute at spring@springinstitute.org.

Immigrant Women's Health Stories

Health Stories Front Page

Spring Institute and its Newcomers Health Group have long recognized the many challenges newcomer families experience in trying to access Colorado's health care system. This new publication tells ten stories from immigrant women in the metropolitan Denver area to illustrate a number of the health struggles facing Colorado's increasingly diverse population.

Download the full report here.

In The News

Spring Institute is featured in a story in the New York Times! Congratulations to Arlin Raedeke and Brandy Kramer. AmeriCorps Project SHINE and Boomers Leading Change in Health are doing such valuable work in our community.

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