Announcements

Morris/Sussex Chapter Meetings for 2024-2025
We are so excited to share that the Morris/Sussex Chapter will be having meetings this year!
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Michelle Land
NJTESOL/NJBE Past President and Scholarship Chair
TESOL International Incoming Social Responsibility Co-Chair

It’s not too late to join NJTESOL/NJBE’s Summer Book Study. We will be reading Dr. Patriann Smith’s Black Immigrant Literacies: Intersections of Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom.
Here is the schedule; you do not have to attend every session.

7/10 – 7:00 PM Discussion of chapters 1 Introduction & 2 Reenvisioning the Literacies of Black Immigrant Youth
8/7 – Chapters 3 The Framework for Black Immigrant Literacies & 4 Teaching Chole, a Black Jamaican Literate Immigrant
8/28 – Chapters 5 Teaching Ervin, a Black Bahamian Literate Immigrant & 6 Bridging Invisible Barriers with Black Immigrant Literacies
Conclusion: Q & A discussion with Dr. Smith to be scheduled in the fall.
Register here to begin a meaningful summer learning experience.

Kathleen Fernandez
Executive Director, NJTESOL/NJBE
executive-director@njtesol-njbe.org

FTC Advice and Resources for
Parents of MLs

Along with consumer advice about Managing Your Money, Credit, Loans and Debt, and Scams and Identity Theft, the FTC website also contains essential information to help immigrants protect themselves from scams. The advice is available in twelve languages.

The site lists the types of scams and guides immigrants about how to recognize them and find the help they need. There is a list of those who might help them and what kind of help they can receive from lawyers and from family or friends. There is a warning that Spanish speakers might be confused by the term notarios, which in Spanish is a highly qualified lawyer, but in the U.S. is only a notary public. Included is a document that can be used to check if lawyers and service organizations are authorized for immigration assistance by the FTC. Also on this page is a free graphic novel in English and Spanish and can be ordered for distribution. In addition, there is a fraud handbook in 14 languages that provides refugees and immigrants with basic information about how to recognize a scam and how to protect personal information. Finally, there is advice on how to report a scam.

All of the immigration documents on the U.S. Citizens and Immigrations Services page are linked from here.