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.
Author Archives: Elizabeth Costello
Community Training Toolkit: Survivors of Torture
Resource: Community Training Toolkit
National Partnership for Community Training
A quick reference guide for communities and providers working with refugees and asylum seekers who were victims of torture.
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.
CDC Health Outcomes for Low-Income Women funding opportunity
Funding Opportunity: Medicaid Expansion and Reproductive Health Care for Women
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Funding to study the use of medical services and health outcomes among low-income women of reproductive age (15-44 years), before and after expansion of Medicaid eligibility.
Letter of Intent Due Feb 4, 2013. Application Due March 4, 2013 by 5:00pm EST.
CAL Overseas Cultural Orientation presentation slides
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.
Project SOAR and ORR Webinars
Training: Webinars for Ethnic Community Self-Help Programs
Presented by: Project SOAR and ORR
Audience: Ethnic community self-help programs
Webinars will focus on organizational and program sustainability, planning for the future, partnerships and collaborations, conflict resolution, and finding your program’s unique strengths.
January 10 and 17, 2013 from 2 – 3:30 pm EST
Refugee Health Profiles
Refugees from Burma health profile, developed by RHTAC and CAL, provides information on refugees’ health experiences and beliefs. Bhutanese refugee health profile, by the CDC, provides information to facilitate medical screening and interventions.
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.