Casa Marianella is excited to announce the second annual ‘Home is Here’ benefit concert will take place at the iconic Paramount Theater in Austin, Texas on November 28! The show will be a coming-together of Austin musicians welcoming their new Austin neighbors and raising money to fund Casa’s legal clinic. Performers include Shakey Graves, Shawn [...]
We're thrilled to announce that Patty Griffin, Adrian Quesada, Britt Daniel, Fastball, Money Chicha and more special guests will perform live at “Home Is Here: A Concert for Casa Marianella” Dec. 9, ACL Live at the Moody Theater to fundraise for a new community center for women and children! Help us sell out our concert [...]
14-year-old Rita lives in South Sudan. As part of the Unicef Poems for Peace program, she is sharing a poem she wrote in order to advocate for using poetry as a call for peace, not only in South Sudan, but everywhere. Casa Marianella has and always will advocate for peace and the protection of children. [...]
Have you checked out our referral board yet? Casa Marianella is currently very full and we ask that people please contact staff first before arriving at Casa. However, we have a long list of trusted organizations in the ATX area that we work with on a day-to-day basis that we trust and can lend many [...]
Medical Advocate - Family Shelter We are looking for a full-time team member to support our newly arrived families with their health needs. If you are interested, please email Stacey Eyman at seyman@casamarianella.org with "Medical Advocate" in the subject line. Full Job Description Job Type: Full Time Our Mission: Casa Marianella welcomes displaced immigrants and [...]
Housing Advocate - Family Shelter We are looking for a full-time team member to support our newly arrived families in finding sustainable housing after their stay in our shelter. If you are interested, please email Stacey Eyman at seyman@casamarianella.org with "Housing Advocate" in the subject line. Full Job Description Job Type: Full Time Our Mission: [...]
This week, we're sharing a powerful poem by Muna Abdulahi, a Somali-American poet and child of refugees. Muna wrote the poem 'The Unwritten Letter from my Immigrant Parent' which reflects the nuanced love, hope and hardship that exists in many immigrant families. Thank you, Muna, for sharing your incredible gift with the world. You can [...]
Job Type: Full Time (email me if interested - seyman@casamarianella.org) Our Mission: Casa Marianella welcomes displaced immigrants and promotes self-sufficiency by providing shelter and support services. Job Description: The Child Advocate will work with the staff at our family shelter (Abri Lumiere) to provide quality enrichment and programming for our kids as well as support [...]
This week we are sharing a beautiful 360 story by the award-winning author, Khaled Hosseini. Khaled wrote Sea Prayer as a way to commemorate the anniversary of the passing of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian child who drowned while attempting to cross the Mediterranean to safety in 2015. It has been 5 years since the [...]
Rowan Mueller Rowan was born and raised in Houston Texas, and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology. She spent most of college working to support wheelchair athletes and children with Autism. Her time spent studying abroad in Peru was extremely formative, as she loved studying the effects of climate change on indigenous populations and [...]