On Thursday, August 22, a small group of people gathered at the T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier to celebrate the completion of a new housing project in town. This wasn’t just any housing project, it was a partnership focused on providing housing specifically for new Americans. CVRAN and Downstreet Housing and Community Development worked together …

  A new short video on immigration was released recently by the National Immigration Law Center. Our friends at the VT NH Asylum Support Network shared the video link to “We Get There Together” with us and we hope that you will share it with all your friends. Click here to the video now!  

Earlier this week, Steven Tendo (a former CVRAN client) and Wuendy Bernardo (a Vermont dairy farmer and advocate) reported for routine check-ins at the St. Albans ICE office. Since many recent check-ins like these have ended with people being detained or worse, Migrant Justice and the NE Kingdom Asylum Seekers Assistance Network (NEKASAN) called for …

The Mexican Consulate provided some additional information about the visit: Approximately 140 people were served: 88 passports were issued; 22 consular IDs; 4 birth or dual nationality registrations were completed; and 17 Mexican birth certificates issued in Mexico were printed. Talks were given about migrant labor rights, health, and mental health issues. Though there was …

For the last several years, CVRAN has provided support and volunteers for the annual Mexican Consulate visit. Though there was less publicity about it than usual, the 2025 visit went off without a hitch last weekend. Thank you to all the wonderful volunteers who helped make it a success! You can read all about it …

For the third year, CVRAN is offering a summer reading program for the children of new Americans. The program runs for 8 weeks during school vacation. The children range in age from preschoolers to high school students and each one meets for an hour a week with a CVRAN Reading Partner in the child’s home …

Yesterday, as hundreds of thousands around the country gathered to protest the administration’s inhumane and authoritarian attacks on human rights, Border Patrol agents in Vermont detained two Migrant Justice leaders. Jose Ignacio “Nacho” De La Cruz was driving with his stepdaughter Heidy Perez in Franklin County when they were pulled over. Agents smashed their car window …

CVRAN assists many people each year. Settling into a new country means you need to learn how things work here in every aspect of life. You probably don’t speak English and won’t have a car to get around. Finding a doctor, getting your children into school, grocery shopping – it can be overwhelming. That’s where …

Peter T. sent in this recommendation for the Vermont Public podcast “The Afghan Women of Brattleboro“: While time is often challenging (with much to read and listen to), today’s summary of the long podcast series – on Afghan Women of Brattleboro – was deeply engaging; remarkably well done. You’ll find 6 podcasts in the series. The …

The 2025 March Arts Marathon may be over, but one local artist is hoping to publish the daily paintings of democracy heroes she created during that busy month. The Montpelier Bridge has a great article about Joyce Kahn’s plans to develop a book of paintings from her MAM posts. We hope she is successful! The …