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What We Do

The Benefit of Having OneMorgan County Serving Your Community

OMC implements its vision, mission and principles through its programs.  These programs are the center piece of OMC’s inclusiveness initiative and diversity awareness efforts to highlight the mosaic of the county and strengthen the connections of its citizens.  OMC’s 2010 programs include:


Community Outreach

OMC aims to lead by example, introduce new approaches to integration, encourage a new philosophy and offer tangible opportunities to enact new methods and new attitudes.


  • Cultural Connections
    • OMC is dedicated to creating opportunities for dialogue and relationship-building where they otherwise might not exist. The Cultural Connections sessions include presentations and small-group discussions that are open to the public and cover a variety of topics. There are nine sessions planned for the 2009/2010 school year. By offering Cultural Connections, OMC strives to provide opportunities for interaction of cultures and sharing of values by appreciating diversity.

  • Intercultural Commmunication Training
    • Good communication is the key to building relationships including personal, professional, civic and business relationships. Communication always presents challenges, but communicating with acquaintances, colleagues, constituents and customers who are from other cultures and who have limited English proficiency can be even more challenging. OMC’s Intercultural Communication Training is specifically designed to help Morgan County community members to overcome intercultural communication barriers. The workshop content focuses on challenges that are related to cultural diversity and intercultural communication.

  • Workshops
    • Workshops are an opportunity to share information with community members about how and where to access resources and services in critical areas including law enforcement, employment, business, housing, education, healthcare, and more.

International Music Fest

OMC sponsors and organizes an annual International Music Fest.  The music fest is an opportunity for attendees to experience music and food from around the world and to celebrate diversity.  More information can be found at www.internationalmusicfest.org

Legal Immigration Services

OMC is excited to be developing a legal immigration services program.  OMC has submitted a dual application to receive Board of Immigration Appeal recognition (BIA) for the organization and to receive BIA accreditation for its staff.  This designation will allow OMC to offer reputable, low-cost legal immigration services to community members such as assisting with the process of filling-out and submitting a citizenship application.

The First Years

For information about OMC’s activities during its first years as part of the Supporting Immigrant and Refugee Family Initiative, please see this report.

Evaluation

To date, the progress of OMC has been assessed and evaluated by Community Science of Gaithersburg, Maryland as part of SIRFI. The evaluation process has produced such reports as Supporting Immigrant Integration in Colorado: Lessons Learned. This report can be viewed and downloaded at http://www.coloradotrust.org/attachments/0000/2218/SIRFILessonsLearned2008.pdf. OMC has not yet received its final SIRFI evaluation but has enthusiastically participated in the process and is looking forward to the insight it will provide. The results will be used to design OMC’s evaluation process as it moves forward.