"The Peoples Center"
Slavic Community Center of Sacramento, Inc
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Founded in 1993
4811 Chippendale Dr Ste 708 B Sacramento, CA 95841 call: (916) 485-6410 |
Immigration and Deportation defence (480) 377-1111
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HIstory
Valentine Kalinovskiy
Executive Director
Valentin Kalinovskiy
Director of Slavic Community Center
Emigrated to USA in 1995 and got involved with Russian speaking community. Since 2000 became a spokesman for Slavic Community.
In 2018 became Assistant Director of Slavic Community Center, and in 2020 assumed position as an Executive Director.
Successful business owner and philanthropist. His life moto is to donate his time, welth, skills and talents to help create a better world.
Director of Slavic Community Center
Emigrated to USA in 1995 and got involved with Russian speaking community. Since 2000 became a spokesman for Slavic Community.
In 2018 became Assistant Director of Slavic Community Center, and in 2020 assumed position as an Executive Director.
Successful business owner and philanthropist. His life moto is to donate his time, welth, skills and talents to help create a better world.
The history of the Slavic Immigrant Community in America started in the early eighteen hundred when America and the old known big Russia were known as good trade partners and friends. The early immigrants to America were experts in the Railroad industries, masonries brick layers, cement workers and specialist in all types of construction industries. More in the east the Russian workers were coming to America to help with mining for coal and other important minerals and metals. The California Fort Ross is a legacy example of how the Russian ocean vessel crushed into the rocky shores of California and they survive by taking the wood from the vessel and build a strong shelter on the hill top where they end up spending the rest of their lives and left us with a respected legacy of courage, heritage and pride of the Slavic culture.
The Slavic-Russian immigrants are known especially in America as very hard-working individuals that explored their opportunities working outside of their homelands for a better pay and better life. From generation to generation the Slavic immigrants came to America, and they have integrated into the American life and society.
In the late 80ies during the Communist regime of the former Soviet Union and during the ruling of Soviet General Secretaries/Presidents like Brezhnev, Chernenko, Andropov and Gorbachev many Soviet citizens have tried to file applications to immigrate outside of the Soviet borders. In the late of 1987 during the US Presidency of Ronald Reagan some immigrants were allowed to exit the Soviet Union under the religion persecutions and Jewish visas were offered in exchange of giving up their Soviet citizenship. The propaganda of the Soviet Union was that those visas were only a small number of those that wanted to reunite with their families in Israel.
However, this was only the beginning of the fall of the Soviet Union, and no one expected that just few years down the line hundred of thousands of people will leave the countries of the former Soviet Union and relocating their families all over the globe and mostly in the United States and California.
I want to focus of the new immigration wave that started in the year of 1988 and the arrival of the first immigrants to Sacramento, California.
In 1992 and within months the SLAVIC COMMUNITY CENTER OF SACRAMENTO was established and started to operate helping the immigrant communities assimilate and integrate into the American life and society.
It is amazing to look back and remember how young and energetic we were back in those days full of energy and willingness to help each other. There was a divine power that gave us strength to help others. Within ten years the Slavic immigrant community in Sacramento had over a hundred thousand new immigrants. People started to work, buy cars, buy their first homes, opening their first new businesses, opening more churches going to school, get their education and life was simply great and great memories. The Slavic Community Center was helping the immigrant community getting their legal immigration status legalized and permanent, then prepared the permanent residents/green card holders to become US Citizens, helped them receiving their first US American passports, file family petition visas for their families and friends that were left in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Armenia and all the other counties that once were in the former Soviet Union. Even more the case workers of the SCCS were trained and we moved higher in helping all the immigrants including, Latinos, Asians, Arabs, Africans, and Europeans with their immigration needs and all kinds of hardships. It is a true pleasure and honor to have the trust and power to represent others and the SCCS managed to do this for over twenty-five years. We served over 250 thousand immigrants of the Slavic community and others. This is a true legacy of public and community service. The SCCS received many official awards from Federal, State and local government agencies. The local media such as Sacramento Bee, FOX40 News, Channel 3, 10, 13 did many stories on SCCS and our staff for their essential services in our community.
The Slavic-Russian immigrants are known especially in America as very hard-working individuals that explored their opportunities working outside of their homelands for a better pay and better life. From generation to generation the Slavic immigrants came to America, and they have integrated into the American life and society.
In the late 80ies during the Communist regime of the former Soviet Union and during the ruling of Soviet General Secretaries/Presidents like Brezhnev, Chernenko, Andropov and Gorbachev many Soviet citizens have tried to file applications to immigrate outside of the Soviet borders. In the late of 1987 during the US Presidency of Ronald Reagan some immigrants were allowed to exit the Soviet Union under the religion persecutions and Jewish visas were offered in exchange of giving up their Soviet citizenship. The propaganda of the Soviet Union was that those visas were only a small number of those that wanted to reunite with their families in Israel.
However, this was only the beginning of the fall of the Soviet Union, and no one expected that just few years down the line hundred of thousands of people will leave the countries of the former Soviet Union and relocating their families all over the globe and mostly in the United States and California.
I want to focus of the new immigration wave that started in the year of 1988 and the arrival of the first immigrants to Sacramento, California.
In 1992 and within months the SLAVIC COMMUNITY CENTER OF SACRAMENTO was established and started to operate helping the immigrant communities assimilate and integrate into the American life and society.
It is amazing to look back and remember how young and energetic we were back in those days full of energy and willingness to help each other. There was a divine power that gave us strength to help others. Within ten years the Slavic immigrant community in Sacramento had over a hundred thousand new immigrants. People started to work, buy cars, buy their first homes, opening their first new businesses, opening more churches going to school, get their education and life was simply great and great memories. The Slavic Community Center was helping the immigrant community getting their legal immigration status legalized and permanent, then prepared the permanent residents/green card holders to become US Citizens, helped them receiving their first US American passports, file family petition visas for their families and friends that were left in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Armenia and all the other counties that once were in the former Soviet Union. Even more the case workers of the SCCS were trained and we moved higher in helping all the immigrants including, Latinos, Asians, Arabs, Africans, and Europeans with their immigration needs and all kinds of hardships. It is a true pleasure and honor to have the trust and power to represent others and the SCCS managed to do this for over twenty-five years. We served over 250 thousand immigrants of the Slavic community and others. This is a true legacy of public and community service. The SCCS received many official awards from Federal, State and local government agencies. The local media such as Sacramento Bee, FOX40 News, Channel 3, 10, 13 did many stories on SCCS and our staff for their essential services in our community.
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ABOUT OUR CENTER
Ivan Megidyuk - President of Slavic Community Center of Sacramento Inc.
First non-profit Slavic Ethnic organization in Greater Sacramento providing refugee populations with critical services to assist them in becoming integrated members of American society. Provides arrays of social, immigration, crime prevention, drug awareness and education services to the Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh, Moldavian, Belarus (etc.) immigrants in Northern California.
Slavic ethnic studies provide excellence in teaching, research, and community-based service learning Building upon the Ethnic Studies’ tradition of analyzing race/ethnicity, class and gender, our scholarly practice and community engagement enables us to recognize the role and impact of social justice, transnationalism, leadership, activism, and sovereignty within and between local, national and global communities. Civic knowledge and engagement-local and global, intercultural knowledge and competence, ethical reasoning and action, foundations and skills for lifelong learning anchored through active involvement with diverse communities in real-world challenges. Vertical Divider
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DRUG AWARENESS
Children need to be educated about tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs in order to make safe decisions. Find lessons and printables to teach your students about smoking, substance abuse prevention, and health and wellness
Abuse of tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs is costly to our Nation, exacting more than $740 billion annually in costs related to crime, lost work productivity and health care. Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing. In 2013, an estimated 24.6 million Americans aged 12 or older—9.4 percent of the population—had used an illicit drug in the past month. This number is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug. Use of most drugs other than marijuana has stabilized over the past decade or has declined. In 2013, 6.5 million Americans aged 12 or older (or 2.5 percent) had used prescription drugs nonmedically in the past month. Prescription drugs include pain relievers, tranquilizers, stimulants, and sedatives. And 1.3 million Americans (0.5 percent) had used hallucinogens (a category that includes ecstasy and LSD) in the past month. Cocaine use has gone down in the last few years. In 2013, the number of current users aged 12 or older was 1.5 million. This number is lower than in 2002 to 2007 (ranging from 2.0 million to 2.4 million). (National Institute on Drug Abuse; National Institutes of Health; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.) Vertical Divider
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Services
We provide variety of assistance to our community with:
Immigration Services, Green-card application and renewal, Adjustment of Status, Citizenship, All immigrant and nonimmigrant visas (H-1B, B-1, B-2, F-1), U.S. Passports, Foreign Passport Service Assistance, Legal Assistance, in house Notary, translation of any documents. Мы оказываем разнообразную помощь нашему обществу: Иммиграционные вопросы, Заявление и продление Green Card, Регулировка статуса гражданства, Все иммиграционные и неиммиграционные визы (H-1B, B-1, B-2, F-1), Паспорт США, Заграничние паспорта, Юридическая помощь, Нотариальные услуги, Перевод любых документов. Embassy's LinksRussia | Ukraine | Belarus | Moldova | Armenia | Azerbaijan | Estonia | Georgia | Kazakhstan | Kyrgyzstan | Latvia | Lithuania | Tajikistan | Turkmenistan | Uzbekistan
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