Welcoming the Stranger
MANA’s Welcoming the Stranger Program matches volunteers with asylum seeking individuals or families, to provide a warm welcome to the Greater Portland community.
Resources for Current Mentors
Welcoming The Stranger home > Resources for current volunteers
These resources are for volunteers currently active in our program.
If you’re not already a volunteer and would like to become one, please visit our Join the Program page.
Current volunteers, please make use of these resources and supports at any point in your mentoring relationship.
To post something to the group send an email to: welcoming-the-stranger@googlegroups.com
To get into the group to find past information use this link.
Please note, these links will only work if you are a current member of our Google Group. Having trouble accessing the group? Contact Amy for help.
Resources Page
If you’re looking for a community resource or service, please check out our Resources page.
Critical Needs Fund
This fund is designed to be low-barrier support for program participants to meet critical needs that cannot otherwise be met by existing funding sources. We can pay invoices directly or reimburse volunteers who have proof of purchase. When possible, we prefer you fill out the application before making the purchase.
Critical Needs Fund application
Still have questions?
Feel free to email us at any time if you have questions or challenges.
Google Group
This Google group is our network of mentors for posting needs, resources, articles.
Use this forum as much or as little as you’d like, but please remember that unless it is something with more general application, hit “reply” rather than “reply all” when responding to an inquiry. And please keep asylum seekers you are working with anonymous to protect their privacy.
