Resource: Videos for learning about refugee youth
CAL Cultural Orientation Resource Center
Videos to assist refugees and refugee providers in learning about adjustment of refugee families and refugee youth to their new lives in the United States. Videos available in English, Farsi, Nepali, and Somali.
Tag Archives: Resettlement
Welcoming American Boise Experience Webinar
Event: Fostering Community Engagement: The Boise Experience
Welcoming America
Webinar about the city of Boise’s comprehensive approach to welcoming refugees and immigrants into the community and how you can work towards bringing this approach to your own community.
Thursday May 16, 2013 at 1:00 pm EST
Individual Development Accounts for Low-Income Refugees
Funding Opportunity: Individual Development Accounts (IDA) for Low-Income Refugees
U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement
Due June 17, 2013. Grants fund the development and administration of IDAs for eligible refugees. IDAs will support goals including home ownership, business capitalization, vehicles for educational or work purposes, professional certification, and education.
Refugee Microenterprise Development
Funding Opportunity: Refugee Microenterprise Development
U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement
Due June 10, 2013. Grants to public agencies, community economic development agencies, local mutual assistance associations, and voluntary agencies to assist refugees in becoming economically self-sufficient by owning and managing a small business.
Protection, Resettlement, and Integration Conference
Event: Protection, Resettlement, and Integration Conference
Ethiopian Community Development Council
Conference theme is trends and challenges in serving African refugees and immigrants.
May 16-17, 2013, Arlington, VA.
Refugees from Burma U.S. Resettlement Questions and Answers
Resource: Refugees from Burma, U.S. Resettlement Questions and Answers
Karen News
International Rescue Committee’s Resettlement Support Center issued a document with 20 key questions and answers related to U.S. resettlement of refugees from Burma who are currently in Thailand.
Funding ORR Ethnic Community Self-Help Program
Funding Opportunity: Ethnic Community Self-Help Program
Office of Refugee Resettlement
Funding for refugee ethnic community-based organizations as well as refugee ethnic organizations that are faith-based to provide services to newly arrived refugees. The populations targeted for services and benefits in the application must represent refugee communities that arrived in the U.S. no earlier than 2008. 15 awards between $100,000 and $250,000 will be distributed. Applications due on March 22, 2013.
Welcoming America TA Center
Resource: Tools to enhance and sustain resettlement work in local communities
Welcoming America, Fostering Community Engagement and Welcoming Communities Project
Welcoming America provides technical assistance to the nation’s refugee resettlement network by offering tools and support to promote a positive community climate and ensure successful integration of refugees.
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.
UNHCR Worldwide Community of Resettled Refugees
Resource: Worldwide Community of Resettled Refugees
UNHCR
Website provides a place for refugees to share resettlement stories, find friends, and connect with one another.