and we also have an outreach program where we support families who are on the verge of being separated so it was like when i brought it in two thousand and five and it has been i would say many two things one is that we actually create a for ever family concept and attitude in the kid's life this is mainly the work of our education and enrichment department but we all take part differently but just to speak generally we prepare them for the before six months this paper given for the kids when he's transit and process the whole team gets this paper is given to the kids his mom used to cook for me used to do things you know easily but now this is the tie that he has for you and says he has thank you and said you know that's why we were given it's basically focus what  because they live in one area and one focus kitchen in addition to this we also have our own simple library that accommodates different supportive books in the different grades and we also have some like other than the great books we also have some supportive books that this was different questions in the different subjects so kids can come to the office and borrow those books and the given a period of time to return back and there at the end of the year also we buy the kids books for them to prepare them for the next year so this way i think they are being supported all surrounded for their education moms might be in the and the rent is increasing every year and we have to cope with that that's one area of support we would like to get and the other support is education no matter supports that's one thing and education fees it another thing that increases every year this are like support we would ask but other support we would ask for volunteers to come out and help us with different life skills trainings tutoring and other psychological support  are capable of doing that we would love them to come out and help us with that and thirdly we would say pray for us like this work isn't an easy task you know we are investing on humans who have come from different backgrounds who have come from a different traumatic experience some of the kids we have have lost both parents some of them have seen their reasons but this kids have come from different traumas so helping out this kids for us is very difficult it's very challenging but because we believe that we are called b get with phasing christ in and by the wisdom of the holy spirit we believe we'll be able to help these kids achieve a better life in the future so these are  support we would love to get in order to you know create that whatever family we talk about in this kid's life we would really appreciate  if you would also consider visiting and see the work we do whether what we are saying is practical or whether what we are saying is true or not then you would we would appreciate your support and any kind of support you might be able to render for us and coming to visit us that's what i would say come in to visit us see what we do here us your name and you wrote yes actually first of all i actually grew up mostly in colorado and i'll play the game here in two thousand seven after i graduated from the university of colorado and been here obviously what ten years plus like ten years now so it's what seattle  i you know obviously seattle embraced me as you know my home as a child of its own and i love the fact that you know this is a great city even though a lot of people outside of seattle complain about the rain but this is a place that i love i'm not complaining about snow because that's what i lived in before and i was in colorado during the winter but you know being at the opposite him a very pretty affairs is great and we're a very diverse office with people from different backgrounds and i feel like i'm in a united nations group which is really awesome it's a blessing and i have a team this supportive but also with the community what we do we try to help them understand that this is a lot of the city seattle is a city for all documented and undocumented ok still i see you as a young person yes i am and you know i don't know know i like but at the same time we all miss home right like you know you miss if you'll be i miss my and we came here because of different situations but you know being in colorado was great going up there and coming to seattle was a different and mick obviously with the weather and everything but also us being in a community this progressive that you know as for other people who you know we're diverse you know having a difficult not too far from here in ninety eight one eight after the census was being told that you know it was the most diverse zip code in the country that is something that i was proud of and my mom actually also moved up here earlier before i moved to seattle so and she lives in the nine eight one eight goat so that's something that you know we championed diversity and it's really a great piece and being affairs is really great because we have different initiatives different programs and we try to be very culturally responsive because we are immigrants and we want to serve our families the best way possible yeah you know community because we have you know a p i folks you have me the east africa operation and we have different version of our community in the office so it's very representative of seattle and that's why with our office you know obviously we appreciate the fact that what we do programs we look at those programs from a culturally appropriate lens so you know being a somali there that's great being an east african there but one thing that i was also want to tell people is or always look at programs and how it's going to serve the people you know like just as a journalist yourself sometimes you want to tell a story you want to go beyond the lens you know really understand people that's how our office is when it comes to community engagement and other things and i think i shared with you before that we had this factor when we were  community engagement we have to our piece which is that we turn our relationship and we go into serve people to talk to them we want to create relationships we want to be authentic we just don't go out because a we're doing a program conjoin us this or we have no we go beyond that we want to keep that relationship versus probably other places so one thing that we really champion is creating authentic relationships and serving the communities from a grassroots level all the way up so you know i think it's for some of the things that's going on so how is your expectation or how is your experience working with him even to in the future is working with immigrants or refugees from a community based world war to now the city of seattle i see almost a little a little bit similar but working on iraq so i understand that we are advocates and we're not service based like we don't give services like community based organizations we support community we'll try to push for policy issues and stuff like that because we really want to see our communities  served but also one thing that i want to tell our community in general as we also have to be involved you know like when it comes to programs like we had great community we had a community session regarding ice we want everyone to show up and make sure that you the community understands what's happening and of course we do have people who come and talk about you know this and this is not happening we just on need to work together we're in the same community we're facing the same issues we all want to see solve the same problems so i think it's a great thing for people to also understand hey this is what the department is doing that's great and that's what's happening out there how can we all work together as a community to solve some of the problems that we have so immigrants in order to get benefits more in you know in terms of just of fact we have a team that does the citizenship work and they're really doing great christine and i do part of it we gotta make it neat and we have folks who basically are creating a piece that our director coo promoted to promote and it's the mega workshop that's about to happen is going to be february third at the seattle center's exhibition exhibition hall making sure that our communities are served when it comes to being citizens as we know that this process is not cheap it's expensive from a range of one thousand to five thousand dollars when we do the mega workshop for citizenship it's free we make sure that you know when people come in this this coming year we have a goal of serving up to a thousand people you had successful proud of engagements for the community whereby we did have a mega workshop before now we've had citizenship clinics such as horn of africa being one of the groups that did a citizenship clinic with a catholic community services and other groups like the filipino community as well and these are clinics that was for our communities and they were placed in the community even the community korean community services as well making sure that you know people get these services that are not cheap they're expensive so we want to give it to the community for free with a little support that we have you know because it is jobs abram point pieces you know you know we have a lot of folks who have their green cards and some folks are being deported because of misdemeanor charges right so we want to make sure that people really take advantage of the opportunities that we're offering and other places are green car five years and also another pieces if they're married to a u s citizen then they should just have they should have just had their green card for three years so it's you know basically kind of requirements we have attorneys are going to be present to help with the legal pieces and to answer questions as well but one thing that we tell people is when the for the mega workshop for the citizenship they should come prepared they should come with you know documentation the proofs and all this stuff as we all know how and four hundred four is not a very easy process to navigate that's why a lot of people in the legal services right self will what we do is we try to make it easy for of for folks and also another piece of having this culturally appropriate lens that we always promote it's you're going to have translators you know it doesn't matter if you speak spanish all molly to get enough for me for or other languages you know the god of we will have people ready who are going to sit it's going to be the lawyer the interpreter and the person being served was want to become a citizen and all those are going to be there for people so we want people in our community to take advantage of these opportunities and you know i always tell people come here come with all the documentation it's needed for you you know to file the end four hundred point and yes we're going to be free we're free legal services you know when was the last time you heard there was going to be a mega workshop and it's going to be free citizenship and you know it doesn't happen a lot so i feel like our community should really take advantage of this opportunity it's one of the best ones more one thing that i'm always going to we should put it out there and bowl for everyone even for those watching this show and thank has been a great piece of our community creating an ethnic media piece that is cultural the response of you know we don't have a lot of media groups like you so i really commend you for which you have done in our community and really you know also going beyond the lens by going to community because i've seen you going out which with the east african population and also advocating for other communities you know we should put it in bold out there that this mega workshop is free you know it's free for people you come there you will be served because seattle is a city for all you know everyone that we are welcoming city you know you shoot people are not going to be discriminated against in this community but that's how we want to be as a city it's a welcoming city for everyone whether you are documented or undocumented and that's what we because yes we do live in a different world now with transit ministration and you know citizenship is where in point because there are things you can get and navigate through the community as a citizen that sometimes might be harder as a l p r a legal permanent resident or someone who does even happens in a slightly right so one thing is of course we're going to have the mega workshops but we would like also people to ask questions if there's workshops happening around the city just like you know i mentioned before we did have the mega workshop but after the make or shops we ended up having clinics in different areas of our community so that people can still go and get their citizenship keep an eye out you know ask questions we're going to do our outreach to go to the cabos that we partner with to tell them hate to please hand out flyers about the citizenship pieces because like last year this year it was just not all about the middle workshop we also did we went far beyond that and just did the community once the clinics are there are smaller and also cool culturally responsive just like i'm in the workshop making sure that there's interpreters and it's being done by the community rain for the community so of course when they come to the mega workshops some of the questions are going to be answered i always say you know we have to christina  our our department and you know you can always you know and also who does a great job as well and we will try to give you answers and we know if we can i give you an answer will find it and i will find a house for four years and a community yeah be journalism because i did have a great appreciation for journalism at the office of immigrants are different obviously i am a community relations specialist who is my colleague it actually also has a background in journalism and she's a policy person for language so it's a beautiful piecing that you know yes as people who have a background in journalism we have that appreciation of you know people in the stories and stuff like that and also narratives because we all have our own narratives right and we want to share those and stuff like that so i believe that jones i'm something that sticks with you and with drones and being out there right now even anyone with a cell phone can be a journalist leo like hovering stories how many things that we've seen happening it changed the landscape of journalism and also like what you're doing going to be on the way we live in a global village so when i was studying drugs and at the university of colorado obviously we understood how you know television itself is a global village because a kid in zambia see sometimes can see the same thing the kid  in south korea sees or a kid in harlem new york so journalism is a piece that i had an appreciation for since i was a child before i came to america you know so and then growing up and understanding that this is what i want to do i feel like even  i'm not going to interviews or being a journalist per se i still have appreciation for it i feel like i still tell a story as a draw isn't a journalist does and i will always have an appreciation for the field and also any time i have i can also comment system be you know partly with you know working on some stuff great stuff because you work with you and they love media because of them thinking that hey this is something i saw on t v but guess what now i'm the one doing the that's something that you know how many kids have you empower to go actually become a journalist so that's something that people in the community like me can look at and say how can we help