Resource: Affordable Care Act Brochures & Educational Presentations
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Affordable Care Act presentations, brochures, and factsheets tailored for various audiences such as women, families, seniors, small businesses, and health care providers.
Category Archives: Refugee Health Updates
CDC Health Outcomes for Low-Income Women funding opportunity
Funding Opportunity: Medicaid Expansion and Reproductive Health Care for Women
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Funding to study the use of medical services and health outcomes among low-income women of reproductive age (15-44 years), before and after expansion of Medicaid eligibility.
Letter of Intent Due Feb 4, 2013. Application Due March 4, 2013 by 5:00pm EST.
CAL Overseas Cultural Orientation presentation slides
Resource: Updates from Overseas Cultural Orientation Coordinators
Cultural Orientation Resource Center
Presentation slides from a November 2012 webinar where seven Cultural Orientation Coordinators from around the world shared information about their overseas cultural orientation programs for U.S.-bound refugees.
Project SOAR and ORR Webinars
Training: Webinars for Ethnic Community Self-Help Programs
Presented by: Project SOAR and ORR
Audience: Ethnic community self-help programs
Webinars will focus on organizational and program sustainability, planning for the future, partnerships and collaborations, conflict resolution, and finding your program’s unique strengths.
January 10 and 17, 2013 from 2 – 3:30 pm EST
The Voice of Love: Interpreting Compassion
Resource: The Voice of Love: Interpreting Compassion
Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma and Cross-Cultural Communications
A national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that developed an interpreter training program to support quality services for survivors of torture, trauma and sexual violence.
Don’t Ask a Child to Interpret: Here’s Why video
Resource: Don’t Ask a Child to Interpret: Here’s Why
A video interview on YouTube makes a strong case for never asking children to interpret. In her own voice, Gia Ngai, a refugee from Vietnam, tells what happened when she arrived in New Zealand with her family and became her parents’ interpreter overnight.
Making Children’s Mental Health Services Successful- Organizational Cultural Competence
Resource: Making Children’s Mental Health Services Successful- Organizational Cultural Competence
University of South Florida, Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, Research & Training Center for Children’s Mental Health
Findings from a review of cultural competence assessment tools designed for use at the organizational level. The study aimed to identify and describe measurable organizational factors that lead to cultural competence in organizations and are therefore associated with increasing service accessibility for racially/ethnically diverse children with serious emotional/behavioral disorders.
Multilingual health and mental health brochures
Resource: Multilingual Health and Mental Health Brochures
Centre of Knowledge on Healthy Child Development
Brochures available on a variety of topics including anxiety, autism, behavior problems, eating disorders, substance abuse, and more. To access the brochures, go to Pamphlets in the website menu bar.
COR Extended and Enhanced Orientation Curriculum
Resource: Extended and Enhanced Orientation Curriculum
Cultural Orientation Resource Center, Center for Applied Linguistics
The Curriculum was funded by the Office of Refugee Resettlement for use by service providers assisting refugees and asylees outside the Reception and Placement program. This curriculum is composed of 26 lesson plans covering the key topics of orientation including a section on health care.
Revamped website COR
Resource: Cultural Orientation Resource Center
Center for Applied Linguistics
The Cultural Orientation Resource (COR) Center is pleased to announce its revamped website that is designed to facilitate access to the broad variety of COR Center materials.