Ohio and its large Ukrainian community near Cleveland are ready to welcome refugees while numerous agencies on all levels of government—local, state, and federal—are preparing to help assimilate them into the American way of life.
Wearing a small blue-and-yellow ribbon—the colors of the Ukrainian flag—pinned on his suit jacket, Gov. Mike DeWine led the Ohio Ukrainian Summit, a forum for resettlement, housing, and job services groups on March 17.
