New American Association of Massachusetts

The mission of the New American Association of Massachusetts (NAAM) is to assist newly arriving refugees and immigrants with integration into American society, to promote economic stability, to build bridges with the larger community, and to foster the maintenance of refugees’ and immigrants’ cultural identities.

In support of this mission, NAAM pursues the following goals:

To educate newcomers about American society and culture;

To promote civic participation and engagement with the larger community;

To provide much-needed social services, advocacy, and economic development assistance, and to facilitate access to mainstream social services;

To provide avenues for learning, cultural expression and cultural outreach.

The New American Association of MA has been helping newly arrived refugees and immigrants for over 30 years. Services we offer include employment services including skills trainings, job search, application assistance, job development, and job coaching, ESL/Literacy programming, tutoring sessions, life skills classes, case management (access to mainstream programs and services, health care, housing etc), interpreting and translation services, immigration assistance and Citizenship services (application assistance and ESL/Civics classes). We offer programming for youth and children, after school and summer programs, transportation, mentoring services, school enrollment assistance.