CMC Blog

Have you or someone you cared about ever experienced a panic attack, and you didn’t know what to do? Most people will experience a time ...

As always, the Catherine McAuley Center stands ready and willing to resettle any displaced person when called upon to do so by our D.C. partners, ...

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and while everyone’s experiences are unique, maintaining a healthy mind is an important part of our overall health and ...

Meet Bailey Wilson – a passionate volunteer who has a vision for where she’s headed and the work she wants to do along the way. ...

          Join CMC in demanding that Congress pass an Afghan Adjustment Act in order to provide at-risk Afghans a permanent legal ...

The Iowa City Foreign Relations Council (ICFRC) seeks to promote greater understanding of international issues by hosting community discussions featuring expert speakers from around the ...

Staff have been busy since you last heard from the Catherine McAuley Center (CMC) about Afghan resettlement. Since the Afghan Parolee Assistance Program was created ...

At The Federal Level Over the course of the last few months, the United States Department of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) ...

Meet Louren, who served as a RefugeeRISE member this past summer with the LIFE (Learning is for Everyone) Program. Read on to learn more about ...

(Originally Published in the Gazette on August 25th, 2021) Author: Paula Land, Executive Director of CMC Last August’s derecho brought an influx of donations and ...

Written by CMC’s Director of Refugee & Immigrant Services, Sara Zejnic As the resettlement agency serving Eastern Iowa, the Catherine McAuley Center (CMC) stands ready ...

When COVID hit and school closed in March 2020, it felt like my entire world stopped. All my extracurricular activities, show choir, music, sports were ...