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Engage

JRS/USA offers a variety of opportunities, tools, and resources that will allow you to get involved. Join us as we walk with refugees and other forcibly displaced people at all stages of their journeys.

Contact Your Representatives

You can help us advocate by contacting your policymakers and asking for their support. Your voice is vital in helping refugees.

Start a Refugee Action Team

Start an action team of individuals dedicated to organizing their own community to support displaced people around the world.

Host a Refugee Simulation


This community engagement event provides individuals and communities with an opportunity to raise awareness by pausing and experiencing, if only vicariously and for a few moments, the frustrations, disappointments and hopes that refugees around the world face.

Write Postcards to Refugees

Jesuit Refugee Service/USA and Any Refugee partner to connect children in the U.S. with refugee children around the world by delivering messages of hope and solidarity through postcards.

Volunteer With JRS/USA

Dedicate your time via volunteering. Check back regularly for vacant positions within JRS/USA.

Start a Book Club

Start a book club focusing on stories from refugees. We recommend Dying to Live, by Danielle Vella (Director of Reconciliation & Social Cohesion for JRS). Get our discussion guide here.