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.
Category Archives: Resources
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.
Strengthening Services for LGBT Refugees and Asylees
Resource: Webinar recording of Strengthening Services for LGBT Refugees and Asylees
Heartland Alliance International’s Rainbow Welcome Initiative
The November 1, 2012 webinar on Strengthening Services for LGBT Refugees and Asylees: Understanding Terms, Concepts, and Conditions is now available. Visit their Resources for Services Providers webpage, select the Capacity Building section, and scroll down to “Webinar-Understanding Terms, Concepts, and Conditions.”
Rainbow Response: A Practical Guide to Resettling LGBT Refugees and Asylees
Resource: Rainbow Response: A Practical Guide to Resettling LGBT Refugees and Asylees
Heartland Alliance, Welcome Home Initiative
A field manual intended to support resettlement service providers in their efforts to tailor core services and meet the specific needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender refugees and asylees.
Knowledge Center Office of Minority Health
Resource: Knowledge Center Library
U.S. Office of Minority Health
Contains thousands of documents, reports, books, journals, media, and articles related to the health status of racial and ethnic minority populations. The library collection also includes consumer health materials in more than 35 languages.