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.
Category Archives: Resources
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.
Revised Lead Poisoning Prevention Recommendations
Resource: Revised Lead Poisoning Prevention Recommendations
Advisory Committee for Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Revised recommendations on elevated blood lead levels that emphasize the importance of primary prevention by adopting a “reference value” based on the 97.5th percentile of the blood lead level distribution in U.S.children aged 1-5 years, which currently is 5 µg/dL.
Guide to State Requirements and Policy Choices in the Affordable Care Act
Resource: Guide to State Requirements and Policy Choices in the Affordable Care Act
Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation
Summarizes major requirements for states between now and 2014 to establish health insurance exchanges and expand Medicaid coverage.
Healthy Living Videos
Resource: Healthy Living Videos
Early Years Refugee Project, Langley Community Services Society
Videos for Karen speaking refugees on Balanced Eating, Sugar, Fat, Nutrition, and other healthy living topics.