Job deskBureau de l'emploi
Most adults we serve are working within four months. We also help the engineers, nurses and teachers among them get back to the work they trained for.La plupart des adultes que nous accompagnons travaillent avant quatre mois. Nous aidons aussi les ingénieurs, infirmières et enseignants à retrouver le métier qu'ils ont appris.
Thursday, 2:40 PMJeudi, 14 h 40
Two offers in one afternoon: a call center in Meridian and a hotel front desk downtown.Deux offres en un après-midi : un centre d'appels à Meridian et l'accueil d'un hôtel en ville.
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1 to 4Mardi et jeudi, de 13 h à 16 h
Tomás Ruelas and two volunteers sit with you at a computer, write a résumé that counts the work you did at home, and apply with you to jobs on the bus line. Then they practice the interview with you, twice.Tomás Ruelas et deux bénévoles s'assoient avec vous devant un ordinateur, rédigent un CV qui compte le travail fait dans votre pays, et postulent avec vous à des emplois sur une ligne de bus. Puis ils répètent l'entretien avec vous, deux fois.
On the first day of a new job, a volunteer drives you there and shows you where to park or which stop to use.Le premier jour d'un nouvel emploi, un bénévole vous y conduit et vous montre où vous garer ou à quel arrêt descendre.
Training pathsParcours de formation
Each one is paid for by New Roots and takes between two weeks and three months.Chacun est payé par New Roots et dure de deux semaines à trois mois.
8 weeks · evenings8 semaines · le soir
With the community college. Starts at about $18 an hour in Boise's hospitals and care homes.Avec le collège communautaire. Environ 18 $ de l'heure au départ dans les hôpitaux et maisons de soins de Boise.
2 weeks2 semaines
Safety certificate and forklift license. Several partner employers hire straight from the class.Certificat de sécurité et permis de cariste. Plusieurs employeurs recrutent directement à la sortie.
6 weeks6 semaines
For drivers with three years' experience at home. Ends with the CDL test.Pour les chauffeurs avec trois ans d'expérience dans leur pays. Se termine par l'examen du permis CDL.
OngoingEn continu
Credential evaluation, licensing exams and a mentor in your field, for engineers, nurses, teachers and doctors.Équivalence des diplômes, examens professionnels et un mentor de votre domaine, pour ingénieurs, infirmières, enseignants et médecins.
For employersPour les employeurs
We send you ready-to-work staff with their paperwork in order, and we stay on call for the first ninety days if anything gets lost in translation.Nous vous envoyons des personnes prêtes à travailler, avec leurs papiers en ordre, et restons disponibles pendant quatre-vingt-dix jours en cas de malentendu.
Hire through the job deskRecruter via le bureau de l'emploi1 to 4 PM, Room 1. Bring your I-94, your Social Security card and any diplomas.De 13 h à 16 h, salle 1. Apportez votre I-94, votre carte de sécurité sociale et vos diplômes.
Design notes
A resettlement agency site that has two very different visitors: a family who landed at Boise Airport last week, and a neighbor who wants to help. The newcomer comes first. The site opens on a bilingual search for what they need today, and everything for volunteers and donors sits one tap away in the dock.
Albert Sans for headings: round, open and calm, and nothing like the type on the UNHCR forms many of these families have been filling in for years. Body text is Atkinson Hyperlegible at 18px, drawn by the Braille Institute so that I, l and 1 never look alike. For someone reading English as a third language, that is a real kindness.
Plum and apricot come from the Boise foothills at dusk, the view from the apartment complexes on the Bench where most New Roots families live. The apricot also matches the wax-print fabric many Congolese families wear on Sundays. Plum carries buttons and links; apricot is kept for highlights so it never has to carry text on its own.
A floating dock at the bottom of the screen, with an icon on every item. Most of our families use the site on a phone, sometimes before they can read much English, and a row of pictures where the thumb already rests is easier than a menu hidden behind three lines. The French switch is at the top of every page.
A search box that asks, in English and French, what you need help with today. It understands both languages, so 'école' and 'school' find the same answer. Every result says when and where in one line, because the second question after 'can you help' is always 'when'.
For newcomers the main action is 'Book a caseworker', a real appointment with a person who speaks your language. For neighbors it is concrete: 'Set up an apartment', 'Fund a welcome kit', 'Save a seat in class'. We avoided words like 'support' and 'make a difference' because they don't tell anyone what happens next.
Families, classrooms and soccer fields in daylight, with people looking at the camera as equals. No camps, no tents, no crying children: the families we serve have seen enough of those pictures of themselves. Every photograph shows people a year or more after landing, at work, at school, on the field.
Every line of the site is available in French, the shared language of most of our Central African families, and the language table shows where interpreters are available for everyone else. Body text is above 10:1 contrast in light mode, tap targets are at least 44px, and the search works with a keyboard and a screen reader.
Every text pairing is checked against WCAG 2.2 in both themes.
| Pairing | Sample | Ratio | WCAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body text on page | Aa | 14.89:1 | AAA |
| Body text on cards | Aa | 16.83:1 | AAA |
| Secondary text | Aa | 5.85:1 | AA |
| Links | Aa | 8.48:1 | AAA |
| Button text | Aa | 9.58:1 | AAA |
| Accent label text | Aa | 8.1:1 | AAA |
| Text on dark bands | Aa | 14.89:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on dark bands | Aa | 7.91:1 | AAA |
| Text on brand bands | Aa | 9.58:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on brand bands | Aa | 6.13:1 | AA |
| Pairing | Sample | Ratio | WCAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body text on page | Aa | 15.76:1 | AAA |
| Body text on cards | Aa | 14.34:1 | AAA |
| Secondary text | Aa | 6.93:1 | AA |
| Links | Aa | 9.31:1 | AAA |
| Button text | Aa | 9.44:1 | AAA |
| Accent label text | Aa | 9.56:1 | AAA |
| Text on dark bands | Aa | 16.55:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on dark bands | Aa | 8.29:1 | AAA |
| Text on brand bands | Aa | 9.44:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on brand bands | Aa | 5.67:1 | AA |
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