Burmese American Community Institute

  • Basic Needs
  • Community
  • Education
  • Health & Mental Awareness
  • Immigration & International Affairs
  • Youth & Family

Who We Are

The Burmese American Community Institute

The Burmese American Community Institute (BACI) is a non-profit organization founded in 2011 that provides educational and vocational support to the Burmese community in greater Indianapolis. The BACI strives to support community members regionally, nationally, and globally through strategic partnerships and advocacy.


Brief History of BACI

Responding to these increasing needs of additional services to the rapidly growing Burmese refugee population in Central Indiana, with a strong conviction of the founding leaders of the need for investing in people and education, the Burmese American Community Institute (BACI) was established as a result of several years of consultations and deliberation with community leaders and stakeholders, with the following vision and mission:

Name: Burmese American Community Institute Inc.

Motto: Advocating – Connecting – Educating – Serving

Vision: Education for all, a stronger community

Mission: To build a thriving, self-sufficient, and sustainable, integrated Burmese Community through advocacy, education, and employment.

Our Core Value: As an ethnically and linguistically diverse group, BACI emphasizes on the inclusiveness and openness across the lines of different ethnic groups from Burma in its organizational development, and providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services to its clients.

Our Approach: Everything we do is educational, and for the long term development of our community.

What We Do

BACI has developed and implemented the following programs:

  1. Upward College Program for HSS
  2. Upward College Program for Adults
  3. Upward College Summer Scholars Program
  4. College Persistence and Career Counseling Program
  5. Civic and Culture Education Program
  6. Childcare Microenterprise Development Program (Project completed Sept. 2014)
  7. INDY (Inform, Navigate, Direct You) Program
  8. Employment and Microenterprise Development Program
  9. Refugee and Parolee Resettlement Assistance Program
  10. Basic Needs and other special projects

Details

Get Connected Icon (317) 731-5537
Get Connected Icon Lian Sang
Get Connected Icon Program Director
http://www.thebaci.org