Community matters.

The pride of the Three Rivers Language Center is our community engagement—the supporting and advocating for various language communities. We have worked with the Indiana Department of Education, East Allen Community Schools, and Fort Wayne Community Schools, providing training to area teachers who work with multilingual learners. We have assisted Catholic Charities with refugee settlements, among other activities involving the support of refugee and immigrant communities and their languages here in northeast Indiana. We have also hosted language camps for the Myaamia community, conducted language and well-being studies with refugee youth from Myanmar/Burma, organized UNESCO conferences involving the local community, brought film festivals in partnership with the Smithsonian Institute to Fort Wayne, advised governments regarding their national education policies, and been involved in numerous other community-engagement projects.

We are especially proud of our recognition by UNESCO for our UNESCO International Year of Indigenous Languages conference in the Evaluation of UNESCO’s Action to Revitalize and Promote Indigenous Languages: Within the Framework of the International Year of Indigenous Language.

Without the support of our local community and the Purdue Fort Wayne community, we would not have been able to host this event. We are continuing to partner with UNESCO on the Decade of Indigenous Languages.