Thank you for your interest in sharing information about your programs with BRYCS. To make resources more widely available to refugee-serving organizations and child welfare agencies, and to facilitate collaboration, we are asking organizations to share information about themselves and their programs, past and present, targeting the needs of refugee youth and children. The program descriptions addressing refugee children, youth and families, and collected by BRYCS become part of a searchable database available on the clearinghouse website.

Click on one of these links for the PDF versions of the forms:  Organization Description or Program Description.  Both will open in new windows; they can be filled out in Adobe Acrobat and emailed or printed and mailed to our office.

BRYCS reserves the right to edit descriptions and directory entries.  If you are part of a larger network, we may share your program descriptions directly with your parent organization so they can help spread the word about programming possibilities.

A PDF file of the permission form can be accessed in a separate browser window by clicking here. Close that window to return to this Web page. (If you need a copy of the free Adobe Acrobat Reader for your browser, please click here to download and install the PDF reader.)

Mail or fax a signed copy of the form, retaining a copy for your records, to:

Please note:  We cannot use program submission information without a signed copy of this form.  Completed forms can be faxed. Faxed signatures can be used in place of original signatures on this form.  Please use this link to reach a printable form.

Program Descriptions: A BRYCS Collaborative Project

The information provided herein will be used in several ways: in a BRYCS website monthly  "Spotlight" and "Sidebar" on promising practices, which are key features of the website; a searchable database of programs serving refugee youth and children on the BRYCS Clearinghouse website; a searchable directory of organizations serving refugee youth and children on the BRYCS Clearinghouse website; and a form that can be shared with an organization’s parent organization.

I have created a description of a program which serves refugee youth and children and am the copyright owner of that written description, and I authorize and give my permission in perpetuity throughout the world to United States Conference of Catholic Bishops/Migration and Refugee Services (USCCB/MRS), for the BRYCS Project, to edit and to reproduce and distribute in print and digital form (including but not limited to the Internet) in whole, in part, or in an edited form, the written description and other written information provided by me to the BRYCS Project.

If photos of program activities or copies of work, that are of or by children, are included in the information provided by me to the BRYCS Project, I assure BRYCS that my program keeps on file signed permission from the children's parents to use these photos and/or work for any program promotional publications and activities.