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New refugee families will learn how to successfully assimilate their children into Knox County schools and teachers will be better able understand the educational needs of those students, thanks to a federal grant that will fund seminars for both groups.

Knoxville-based Bridge Refugee and Sponsorship Services has received $56,095 from the Refugee School Impact Grant to offer the workshops.

Part of the money is being used for Step Up, an after-school peer mentoring and academic enrichment program for refugee teenagers. It’s also funding the position of a full-time liaison who will be a go-between for refugee families, students, teachers and school administration.

‘Fundamentally, the goal is to make sure that the great educational systems America offers are seized by our refugee families and nothing like language, past experience and cultural differences gets in the way of that,’ said Jennifer Cornwell, Bridge’s executive director.

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