Resource: Refugee Children with Low Literacy Skills or Interrupted Education: Identifying Challenges and Strategies
Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning
Includes resources, roleplay scenarios, and classroom activities for schools and teachers working with refugee children.
Category Archives: Refugee Health Updates
Somali Cultural Guide: Building Capacity to Strengthen the Well-Being
Resource: Somali Cultural Guide: Building Capacity to Strengthen the Well-Being of Immigrant Families and Their Children: A Prevention Strategy
Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare
Information for child welfare professionals on the culture of Somali immigrant children and families.
Higher Advantage
Resource: Higher Advantage
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
Tools and resources for job seekers, potential employers, and employment service organizations to support refugees and migrants entering the U.S. workforce.
Working Clinically with Traumatized Refugee Children and Families (Archived Webinar)
Resource: Working Clinically with Traumatized Refugee Children and Families (Archived Webinar)
Gulf Coast Jewish Family & Community Services
Webinar uses a case presentation of a Kosovo family to illustrate assessment and intervention for refugee children and families who experienced war trauma and violence.
Language Assistance – Your Right to an Interpreter
Resource: Language Assistance – Your Right to an Interpreter
Legal Services of New Jersey
Video explains right to language assistance when accessing services for government agencies or federally funded organizations. Video available in Spanish and Haitian Creole.
Health Reform to Require Insurers to Use Plain Language
Resource: Health Reform to Require Insurers to Use Plain Language
U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services
New regulations under the Affordable Care Act will require health insurers to provide clear, understandable, and straightforward information on health plan coverage and costs.
Refugee Groups Resource Packages
Resource: Refugee Groups Resource Packages
Cultural Orientation Resource Center, Center for Applied Linguistics
Resources designed to assist in orientation, resettlement, and adjustment of a variety of refugee groups.
Orientation For, and About, Refugees with Disabilities (Archived Webinar)
Resource: Orientation For, and About, Refugees with Disabilities (Archived Webinar)
Cultural Orientation Resource Center, Center for Applied Linguistics
Webinar provides case examples of challenges and resources for Bhutanese refugees in Nepal, as well as an overview of U.S. resources and programs available to refugees with disabilities.
Mapping the effects of ACA’s health insurance coverage expansions
Resource: Mapping the Effects of the ACA’s Health Insurance Coverage Expansions
Kaiser Family Foundation
Maps the effects of health insurance coverage expansions from the Affordable Care Act. Provides a zip code tool to estimate the number of people that may be eligible for expanded coverage through Medicaid or tax credits to subsidize the cost of insurance.
Understanding your insurance
Resource: Understanding Your Insurance
Healthcare.gov
Summarizes current and future insurance options, rights and protections for consumers under health reforms in the Affordable Care Act.