ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday pledged $2 million in state funding to assist Afghan evacuees resettle in New York.
The funds shall be distributed to nonprofit companions all through the state that present help for the evacuees.
“We’re going to be offering medical care, psychological well being therapy, due to the unimaginable stress that people who’ve been displaced from their world that they at all times knew rising up and are actually in a really international place, language abilities, job coaching, cultural competence coaching, free immigration authorized companies, which is so vital to get these authorized paperwork for visas,” Hochul stated.
The brand new funding is along with the $3 million the state Legislature secured within the present 12 months’s funds to assist the refugees.
