Outlining Efforts to Welcome Puerto Rican Families Displaced by Hurricane Maria

Cleveland.com column by Tri-C’s Magda Gomez highlights ‘Bienvenidos a Cleveland’

Welcome to Cleveland.

That’s the message being delivered to hundreds of Puerto Rican families relocating to Northeast Ohio following the devastation of Hurricane Maria.

A coalition of 25 community-based agencies — including Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C^®) — is working to ease the transition for the arrivals as they begin building new lives in their new home.

Tri-C’s Magda Gomez, director of diversity and inclusion at the College, recently wrote a column for cleveland.com detailing the extraordinary efforts now underway through the Bienvenidos a Cleveland project. The column also will appear in the Feb. 1 editions of Sun Newspapers.

January 29, 2018

John Horton, 216-987-4281 john.horton@tri-c.edu