Our Mission & Who We Are

Island Liaison serves as a resource providing awareness of locally available health and educational agencies, services, and opportunities to Pacific Islanders with focus on people from the region of Micronesia which includes the Independent island nations of the Freely Associated States (FAS): The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), and the Republic of Palau.

Island Liaison serves the FAS community in Arizona. They are here in the U.S. under the Agreement of Compact of Free Association (COFA) with the U.S. which allows them to live, work, and freely travel within the U.S. without a visa and with no time restraints, however, these FAS islanders are not U.S. citizens and therefore are not eligible for many federal or state services.  Neighboring Islanders from the U.S. Territories of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) are U.S. citizens and do have the ability to access many federal or state-funded services.