Resource: Developmental Screening with Recent Immigrant and Refugee Children: A Preliminary Report
Ethnomed
Project represents an initial attempt to describe barriers to developmental screening in a population which is missing from the bulk of the developmental screening literature.
Tag Archives: Children
Translated Content Children Disabilties
Resource: Materials for families who have children with disabilities
Pacer Center
Translated publications focusing on issues facing families from diverse backgrounds who have children with disabilities. Publications are translated into Hmong, Spanish, and Somali.
Changing Face Unaccompanied Alien Child Report
Resource: Changing Face of the Unaccompanied Alien Child: A Portrait of Foreign-Born Children in Federal Foster Care and How to Best Meet Their Needs
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops/Migration & Refugee Services
In-depth analysis of the profile of children coming into federal foster care and how that profile has changed over the years.
Children’s Hospital Boston CRTR Website
Resource: Center for Refugee Trauma and Resilience, Boston Children’s Hospital
New redesigned website contains many resources such as their Refugee Services Toolkit, prevention and intervention models, and a list of publications produced by the Center’s staff.
Children’s Resilience Programme: Psychosocial Support In and Out of Schools
Resource: The Children’s Resilience Programme: Psychosocial Support In and Out of Schools
International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies & Save the Children
Resource toolkit focuses on supporting the psychosocial needs of children in crisis and post-crisis situations.
Supporting and Educating Traumatized Students
In the Literature: Supporting and Educating Traumatized Students: A Guide for School-Based Professionals
Editors: Rossen, E. and Hull, R. (2012) Oxford University Press
Provides practical, effective, and implementable strategies and resources for adapting and differentiating instruction, modifying the classroom and school environments, and building competency for students affected by trauma.
Multilingual Child Health Factsheets
Resource: Kids Health Factsheets
Children’s Hospital at Westmead, New South Wales
Multilingual fact sheets on childhood health and medical conditions available in refugee languages such as Arabic and Nepali. Scroll down to “Translations” section.
HHS ACA Materials for Various Audiences
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.
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.