Services Offered at St. Johns Outreach Center | Education [Video]

St. John’s Outreach Center has been helping immigrant and refugee families transition into the community for years and is now offering English classes to make that evolution even easier. Sister Phylis Peters oversees operations at the center and talked about the need for English classes.

“There is a great need with the refugees because they come over here and they may be attached through the resettlement center, but after 3 months then their kind of not dropped but then no one helps them.”  

Kathy Migliaccio-Johnson teaches the English classes at the Center. She says there can be as many as 25 different languages spoken here, but it’s important they understand how to ‘speak’ English.  

“Many of them can read English but they don’t understand the words, that’s why we focus also …