CASP is a nonprofit organization that supports asylum seekers in the Brattleboro, Vermont area.
Our Impact
Providing basic needs and services: food, shelter, medical and mental health services, language learning, job training, and school enrollment.
Assistance in applying for work permits and navigating the asylum claim process.
Accompaniment through the asylum process and the journey to make a home in a new country.
Educational events and workshops about migration, trauma, and racism to facilitate increased public understanding and awareness about asylum seekers and their lived experience.
The Asylum Process
To win asylum, you must show all of the following:
- You have been harmed or have a good reason to believe they will be harmed in your country of origin.
- The harm is because of a specific characteristic like race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or something else about you that you cannot change or should not have to change.
- The government of your country of origin will cause this harm, or the government will be unwilling or unable to protect you from this harm.
- You would not be safe if they moved to another part of their country of origin.
