GY2026 ORR refugee cash and medical assistance

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded Lutheran Immigration And Refugee Service Inc. (operating as Global Refuge) $1,323,919 in block grant funding on October 1, 2025 under the GY2026 ORR Refugee Cash and Medical Assistance program. The funding supports refugee cash and medical assistance services delivered in Maryland through September 30, 2027. Lutheran Immigration And Refugee Service Inc. is a Baltimore-based nonprofit that serves as a designated replacement designee and voluntary agency partner within the federal refugee resettlement system, delivering reception and placement services, employment assistance, case management, language instruction, and social integration support for newly admitted refugees, asylees, Cuban and Haitian entrants, trafficking victims, and eligible special immigrant populations. The organization also administers specialized support programs including trauma-informed mental health and psychosocial services, microenterprise development, individual development accounts, and employer engagement programming to promote self-sufficiency. Global Refuge receives the majority of its federal funding from the Administration for Children and Families and the Department of State Bureau of Population Refugees and Migration, with a stable but narrowing customer base concentrated among a small set of specialized federal refugee funders and state agencies administering delegated federal refugee programs.