For newcomer families to succeed in the U.S., it is critical to look beyond economic self-sufficiency to other elements of family wellbeing. In October 2021, the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) issued new Family Self-Sufficiency Plan requirements for those receiving employment-related Refugee Support Services (RSS). This new guidance requires, a “whole-family approach” to addressing barriers […]
Jaime Costigan
Jaime Costigan is Technical Advisor for Design, Monitoring and Evaluation at the IRC. She provides technical support in response to internal and external M&E requests and oversees the development of core indicators and evidence mapping for the IRC's Outcomes and Evidence Framework (OEF).
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This blog post accompanies a new toolkit developed by the Urban Institute as part of the Switchboard program: Data-Driven State Refugee Programs: Lessons from the field on managing, analyzing, and using data to improve refugee programs. The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) recently delivered a series of webinar trainings on its updated ORR-6 report, which […]