Fwd: [tupocc] Women's Opportunities Resource Center's Family Savings Account Program

>Women's Opportunities Resource Center's Family Savings Account Program.
>From now until the end of July we will be doing an outreach drive in
>order to meet some challenging enrollment goals for our Refugee
>Family Savings Account Program.
>
>This savings and match program was created in 1999 to assist
>low-income New Americans achieve self-sufficiency. Funds can be used
>to purchase a home, fund a business or pay for higher education for
>the participant or the participant's children. By saving at least
>$10 a week (or $40 dollars monthly) for 6 to 24 months, the account
>will be matched dollar for dollar, up to a $2,000 maximum match.
>While in the program, participants will develop financial strategies
>through financial management classes and asset specific classes.
>
>To date, over 630 clients have completed our FSA Program, 382 of
>which have been refugees/asylees. We currently have 36 clients
>enrolled in our Refugee FSA Program.
>
>Those eligible for the Refugee FSA Program must have official
>documentation (usually on their I-94 arrival/departure cards) that
>they are: Refugees, Asylees, Cuban/Haitian Entrants, Victims of
>Severe Forms of Human Trafficking, and/or Certain Amerasians from
>Vietnam. They also must be Pennsylvania residents and be low-income
>(earning less than 200% of federal poverty income guidelines).
>
>We would like to schedule presentations on the Refugee FSA Program
>for your clients as soon as possible! I would appreciate if you
>could suggest an appropriate forum at which I could present our
>program to individuals whom are likely to have refugee/asylee
>status.
>
>Mia Maldonado Bromberg
>Family Savings Account Assistant
>Women's Opportunities Resource Center
>(215) 564 - 5500, ext. 217