SEARCH Mission

SEARCH was established in 1992 to meet the need for cultural and linguistic-specific employment services for a diverse and growing Southeast Asian community.

In the past 15 years, SEARCH has placed over 2,000 immigrants and refugees into jobs, and has created several important supplementary programs. More recently, with the move of our corporate headquarters to the Phillips Neighborhood and the hiring of East African staff, SEARCH has extended services to a growing East African clientele. Today, SEARCH's increasingly diverse staff offer four core programs to almost 1,000 immigrant and refuges annually.

SEARCH's mission is to assist newly arrived immigrants and refugees in becoming contributing members of their community. Key organizational goals include:

• Meeting participants' basic settlement needs;
• Improving participants' economic well-being;
• Helping youth and families participate more fully in American societyImproving participants' economic well-being.