Promoting Refugee Integration Mobility and Empowerment

PRIME stands for Promoting Refugee Integration, Mobility and Empowerment. PRIME provides refugees a continuum of services that are community-based, comprehensive and client-centered. The services promote refugees’ integration into their new communities, and increase their mobility and empower them through coaching on how to independently navigate community systems and resources.

Services

  • Case management services, including a comprehensive assessment on five self-sufficiency areas, goal-setting with timelines and connections to healthcare programs and mental health providers, DSHS assistance programs, food assistance and housing.
  • Workshops on relevant topics related to a person’s self-sufficiency such as financial literacy, health, insurance, the U.S. legal system, use of technology, entrepreneurship and the U.S. education system.
  • Short-term services for people and families who request help from the provider but do not need ongoing case management services.
  • Peer support groups tailored to meet the needs of a group with specific concerns related to their successful integration.

Eligibility

People may be eligible PRIME services if they:

  • Are age 16 or older.
  • Are current residents of Washington state.
  • Have lived in the United States for five years or less.
  • Have not naturalized as U.S. citizens.
  • Have an immigration status that makes them eligible for federally funded refugee services from the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement. 

For more information about ORR eligibility, visit our Frequently Asked Questions page.

Service Providers

View a list of PRIME service providers on our interactive resource tool.