Messages that Matter:

Reframing Refugees

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Welcome

Eskinder Negash

Director,

Office of Refugee Resettlement

Goals for Today’s Webinar

• Learn about messaging frames and their importance

• Explore messages that resonate

• Contribute ideas that will help shape messages about refugees

• Think about how to apply these ideas in your work

Reframing Refugees

Holly Minch & Amanda Cooper

September 24, 2013

Welcoming is Reframing

What does reframing make possible?

Shift in Attitudes

What’s possible now?

How are refugees framed now?

What would be better?

What frames work?

Define America

Dignity of Work

People Move

Finish this sentence:

Refugees are an important part of

our community because…

Fill in the blanks:

[Name of refugee] has contributed

to our community by [contribution

here].

Finish this sentence:

One thing our community has done

to welcome refugees is…

Questions?

Comments?

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