Funding Opportunity: Health Insurance Marketplace Navigator Grants
U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Due June 7, 2013. Grant funding will support navigator programs in anticipation of the Affordable Care Act full implementation that starts in fall 2013.
Author Archives: Elizabeth Costello
Videos on Refugee Youth
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.
IOM Nutrition Surveillance Report
Resource: Nutrition Surveillance Reports
International Organization for Migration
Report of child growth and nutrition data collected during refugee health assessments in Ethiopia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Nepal, and Thailand.
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
US Preventive Services Task Force HIV Screening
Resource: New Statement on HIV Screening
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Recommendations on screening for HIV infection in adolescents and adults aged 15 to 65 years old. Younger adolescents and older adults who are at increased risk should also be screened. In addition, all pregnant women should be screened for HIV, including those who present in labor who are untested and whose HIV status is unknown.
HHS Enhanced National CLAS Standards
Resource: Enhanced National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Downloadable blueprint that offers guidance and implementation strategies for the enhanced national CLAS standards.
Refugees from Congo Refugee Backgrounder
Resource: Refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Refugee Backgrounder
Cultural Orientation Resource Center at the Center for Applied Linguistics
Addresses the causes of the refugee crisis, life in the DRC and countries of asylum, and Congolese resettlement experiences.
Religious Call to Action for Supporting LGBT Refugees
Resource: A Religious Call to Action for Supporting LGBT Refugees within Communities of Faith
Heartland Alliance International’s Rainbow Welcome Initiative
Shows inspiring clergy and resettlement workers in their ongoing efforts to ensure LGBT refugees are welcomed by their religious communities.
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.