Refugee Community Partnership creates social ecosystems that connect people to the resources they need, and mobilize institutions to eliminate barriers to access. Centering transformative relationships, we work at the intersection of social mobility, health equity, and language justice.

The Refugee Community Partnership (RCP) addresses language barriers the refugee and immigrant community face when trying to access health services in Orange and Durham County, North Carolina. RCP moves beyond language access towards language justice, using a human-centered design. The RCP is comprised of 750+ refugee and undocumented members, hailing from Burma, Syria, the Congo, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico, and are overwhelmingly non- English speaking. RCP plans to mobilize institutions to localize their language services by contracting with local interpreters, send new refugee and migrant young adults to train to be interpreters, and provide proactive, assertive interpretation and navigation support.

CSHE keeps RCP hyper-focused on healthcare systems and their transformation; provides learning and professional development opportunities for their staff team, and widens their view of their work to the larger field of health and cultural justice.