Housing volunteers at the IRC in Salt Lake City are crucial to the resettlement process! When refugees arrive in Utah, they are able to walk into a furnished home with all their essential needs to start out their lives here. Learn more about members of our housing support team: Jill Baker, Rob Kain, and Holli Turner.

Imagine you are a Central American mother detained for days by the U.S. border patrol after a desperate journey to flee violence at home. Suddenly you are released. What happens next?

This is a time for fresh starts, starting over and new beginnings. We here at the IRC in Missoula have been fortunate to be with so many families while they experience new beginnings and so many "firsts."

8,300 refugees from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan are living in deplorable conditions in an overcrowded refugee camp in Moria, on the island of Lesbos, Greece. Most are in the process of making asylum claims after feeling danger in their countries, but shortages and high tension in the camp are making life unsafe in the camp.

Violence against women and girls is a global problem of epidemic proportions. Evidence shows that over one-third of women and girls globally will experience some form of violence in their lifetime. Regardless of where they live, their religion or culture, or what stage of life they are in, each is a target of violence specifically because of her gender and the gender discrimination that persists globally.

This Mental Health Awareness month we take a deep dive into the Mental Health department at the IRC in Dallas.

The health team at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Salt Lake City begins a support group for Afghan women who arrived to Utah in recent months.

How planned giving ensures that the IRC continues responding to the world's worst humanitarian crises.

The IRC in Salt Lake City’s Speakers Bureau educates the community about the refugees we serve and how they can get involved.