Cristo Rey Community Center

International and refugee services: Refugee services is the receiving program in Mid-Michigan, through which refugees resettle in the community. Refugee services assist in arranging housing, healthcare, and community orientation for refugees. The employment activities offer services for refugees as follows: job development, placement, and retention to newly arrived refugees, as well as those seeking job upgrades. Supportive services offered include job readiness skill training, English as a second language (ESL) classes, ESL tutors, mental health services and linguistic support in applying for and securing daycare, subsidized housing, emergency food and household assistance, low income health insurance and supplemental case management for refugees who have resided in the US over five years. Immigration legal services provide to community members across Mid-Michigan, regardless of immigration status, a wide spectrum of low cost immigration services, such as family reunification, adjustment of status, citizenship, asylum and removal defense.

The Food Access programs which serve the surrounding community by providing essential access to healthy food. Everyone is welcome to receive food from the bread rack, community kitchen, and food pantry. The community kitchen provides two warm meals each day Monday through Friday. The food pantry provides a variety of fresh and non-perishable food items to individuals and families in need. It operates Monday through Friday and is one of the largest pantries in the Greater Lansing Area. The Personal Needs Pantry provides personal needs items to members of the community and the Clothing Closet provides clothing to community members

The Organization's Family Health Center is a primary care medical center dedicated to providing quality, affordable, healthcare for all populations, including the under-served. Licensed medical providers offer care in a comfortable and caring environment. Services include internal medicine and pediatrics. Insured and un-insured patients are welcome to receive services.

Other programs include the financial coaching program to help individuals improve their financial security and stability as well as the start-up costs of the Children's Home and Dental Practice.

The Organization's counseling program is a fully licensed provider of substance abuse prevention and treatment services, parenting programs, substance abuse recovery family program, telepsychiatry, and anger management program.

Child welfare programs: Foster care- foster care provides temporary family homes for children in the community who are victims of abuse or neglect. Supportive services are provided as needed. Foster families provide stable family care for temporary wards of the court with the hope of reestablishing the natural family or finding permanent adoptive homes. Adoption - This program places infants, preschoolers, older children, and children with special physical and/or emotional needs with qualified families who offer stable, loving homes.