We are very pleased to announce that the City of Aurora (Co, United States), a valued member of the Strong Cities Network, has been awarded the 2017 City Cultural Diversity Award by the National League of Cities.

The award honours municipal programmes that encourage citizen involvement and recognises cities that develop creative and effective programmes to improve and promote cultural diversity through a collaborative process with city officials, community leaders and residents. Aurora has several innovative programmes, including the  International and Immigrant Teen Police Academy, City Youth Academy and the Natural Helpers programme, run by Aurora’s  Office of International and Immigrant Affairs (OIIA).

You can read about Aurora’s efforts in detail in Aurora’s SCN City Profile and on the SCN Working Group pages.

We talked about Aurora’s approach with Ricardo Gambetta, the Manager of Aurora’s Office of International and Immigrant Affairs. You can read the interview here.

Read more about the award here.