Resource: Adult Vaccine Finder
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Locates the providers of recommended adult vaccines based on zip code.
Category Archives: Refugee Health Updates
Burmese health education materials
Resource: Publications on Diabetes, Income Taxes, and Employment
Burmese Advocacy Center
Publications entitled Diet for Diabetes, American Basic Rules of Individual Income Tax Return, and Employment Handbook are now available. To receive these publications for your organization or for your clients from Burma, please contact the Burmese Advocacy Center.
CMS Marketplace Navigator grants
Funding Opportunity: Health Insurance Marketplace Navigator Grants
U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Due June 7, 2013. Grant funding will support navigator programs in anticipation of the Affordable Care Act full implementation that starts in fall 2013.
Videos on Refugee Youth
Resource: Videos for learning about refugee youth
CAL Cultural Orientation Resource Center
Videos to assist refugees and refugee providers in learning about adjustment of refugee families and refugee youth to their new lives in the United States. Videos available in English, Farsi, Nepali, and Somali.
IOM Nutrition Surveillance Report
Resource: Nutrition Surveillance Reports
International Organization for Migration
Report of child growth and nutrition data collected during refugee health assessments in Ethiopia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Nepal, and Thailand.
Welcoming American Boise Experience Webinar
Event: Fostering Community Engagement: The Boise Experience
Welcoming America
Webinar about the city of Boise’s comprehensive approach to welcoming refugees and immigrants into the community and how you can work towards bringing this approach to your own community.
Thursday May 16, 2013 at 1:00 pm EST
US Preventive Services Task Force HIV Screening
Resource: New Statement on HIV Screening
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Recommendations on screening for HIV infection in adolescents and adults aged 15 to 65 years old. Younger adolescents and older adults who are at increased risk should also be screened. In addition, all pregnant women should be screened for HIV, including those who present in labor who are untested and whose HIV status is unknown.
HHS Enhanced National CLAS Standards
Resource: Enhanced National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Downloadable blueprint that offers guidance and implementation strategies for the enhanced national CLAS standards.
Refugees from Congo Refugee Backgrounder
Resource: Refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Refugee Backgrounder
Cultural Orientation Resource Center at the Center for Applied Linguistics
Addresses the causes of the refugee crisis, life in the DRC and countries of asylum, and Congolese resettlement experiences.
Religious Call to Action for Supporting LGBT Refugees
Resource: A Religious Call to Action for Supporting LGBT Refugees within Communities of Faith
Heartland Alliance International’s Rainbow Welcome Initiative
Shows inspiring clergy and resettlement workers in their ongoing efforts to ensure LGBT refugees are welcomed by their religious communities.