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Social Work Professor Honored for Work with Immigrants
GREENSBORO - Dr. Raleigh Bailey, director of the Center for New North Carolinians, has received the inaugural North Carolina Refugee Program Lifetime Achievement Award from the North Carolina Department of Social Services.

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s Center for New North Carolinians, part of the school of Human Environmental Sciences, promotes the well-being of all immigrants. It provides interpreter training and other educational programs and services.

Bailey was the director for Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas from 1984-89. During that time, he helped resettle 250 Montagnard refugees. In 1987, he was awarded a White House Presidential Citation.

From 1989-92, Bailey worked in Thailand as the coordinator for Preparation for American Secondary Schools, a company that prepared people to immigrate to the United States. He has worked with The African Services Coalition and the Guilford County Smart Start program. He began working at UNCG in 1993.

The Lifetime Achievement Award honors someone who has been involved for many years in the betterment of the lives of North Carolina’s refugee and immigrant population.

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