Tucson International Alliance of Refugee Communities, Inc. (TIARC) is a Mutual Assistance Association (MAA) that provides services to refugee communities who have been resettled in Tucson and Pima County.

Members of Vietnamese, former Soviet Union, former Yugoslavia, Laos, and Angolan refugee communities organized TIARC in the summer of 1995, with the assistance of Pima County Adult Education Program. The group came together with the purpose of helping refugees adjust to their new lives in the USA.  Many critical areas of concern needed to be addressed, such as good education for children, employment, crime prevention, law enforcement, cultural adjustment and preservation, housing, and health care.

The primary goal of the organization is to assist refugees to achieve economic self-sufficiency, an acceptable measure of social integration into American society, and the ability to utilize main stream public and private resources.

Tucson International Alliance of refugee Communities, Inc. (TIARC) was incorporated as a non profit 501 (3) c in March of 1997.

Today Tucson International Alliance of refugee communities is serving refugees from Vietnam, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Cuba, Somalia, Iraq, Iran, Former Soviet Union, Sudan, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Romania, Liberia, Burundi, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Burma, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kosovo and we are looking forward to serve refugees from Burma and Bhutan as they come to Tucson.
Our services include interpretation and translation, driver training, English as second language classes, computer classes, notary public, citizenship classes for refugees 60 years of age or older, case management for our elderly clients, and we offer  help with finding  new jobs to refugees.

We are also providing information to refugees about main stream providers in the community, and information to the mainstream community about new arrived refugee groups. Together with Honors College at University of Arizona we are providing in home tutoring to children and their families.

 It is tradition in Tucson refugee community that TIARC organizes Thanksgiving Dinner for refugees.  In December, in time of Holidays, TIARC is organizing Children’s Party where children are presented with a holiday gift. Last year we had 78 children from above named countries at our Holiday Party.

For more information call us at (520) 881- 4404.