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.
Tag Archives: Children
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.
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.
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.
Lead poisoning in United States-bound refugee children: Thailand-Burma border
In the Literature: Lead poisoning in United States-bound refugee children: Thailand-Burma border. Mitchell T, Jentes E, Ortega L, Scalia Sucosky M, Jefferies T, Bajcevic P, Parr V, Jones W, Brown MJ, Painter J. (2012). Pediatrics.
Pediatric Mental Health Handouts
Resource: Pediatric Mental Health Handouts
National Association of School Psychologists
Multilingual handouts and materials include tips for children and parents on coping with unsettling times, anxiety, bullying, and more.
BRYCS Refugee Portal
Resource: BRYCS Refugee Portal
Bridging Refugee Youth & Children’s Services
Multilingual resources for resettled refugees on family life and parenting, early childhood, U.S. school system (K-12), children’s books, and health and mental health.
2012 National Refugee and Immigrant Conference
Event: 2012 National Refugee and Immigrant Conference: Issues and Innovations
Presented by: Adult Learning Resource Center
For providers who work with refugees and immigrants in fields such as education, health care, social services, job development, and advocacy.
October 18-19, 2012, Chicago, IL