neighborhood empowerment
OUR PLACE-BASED STRATEGY
Community Resource Events
The Mayor’s Office of International & Immigrant Affairs – Welcoming Atlanta is leveraging place-based strategies and public-private partnerships to address resource and food access gaps in predominantly immigrant communities. Each month, we are serving an estimated 900 households at 10-12 place-based Community Resource Events. Our Community Resource Events seek to earn trust and empower neighborhoods by establishing safe spaces for residents to gather and access resources. Our events take place in neighborhoods that are home to many residents that often do not qualify for traditional food assistance and who face significant barriers to resource access, including language, financial limitations, transportation, and documentation status. With over 100 partner agencies offering resources and services at events, we are utilizing food access as a mechanism to strengthen neighborhoods, through a model that enhances public safety, equity, and opportunity.
2024 Impact Data
91
Community Resource Events Hosted
10,211
Household Units Served
208
Volunteers Engaged
112
Public & Private Partners Engaged
56
Countries Represented by Attendees
AROUND THE COMMUNITY
signature events
MYCITY ATL
MyCity ATL started in 2016 and is designed to inform and empower the immigrant and refugee population in Atlanta to directly engage and interact with city services on topics that are important to New Americans. Once a month over the course of six months, MyCity participants from the Atlanta Public Schools Adult ESOL program hear from City departments, gain a better understanding of how City agencies work, and learn how to resolve issues. Through these sessions, participants learn and become ambassadors who build strong communities by not only using the gained knowledge but sharing it as well. Since 2016, Individuals from over 35 different nations participated in MyCity ATL.
Interested in participating? Contact Valerie Mills at vmills@atlantaga.gov.
