Resource: Safe, Smart & Healthy Videos Online
The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS)
Refugee Services health orientation videos, Safe, Smart & Healthy: Keys to Success in Your New Home, are now available online in over 30 languages, including Amharic, Arabic, Burmese, Dzongkha (Bhutanese), Hakha (Chin), S’gaw Karen, Somali, and Swahili.
Tag Archives: Cultural Orientation
2013 National Refugee and Immigrant Conference
Event: 2013 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 10-11, 2013, Chicago, IL.
CAL COR Welcome Set
Resource: Welcome to the United States
CAL Cultural Orientation Resource Center
Welcome Set includes a guidebook and DVD that offer information to refugees about resettlement in the United States. Welcome Set materials available in English, Arabic, Burmese, and Nepali.
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.
COR Extended and Enhanced Orientation Curriculum
Resource: Extended and Enhanced Orientation Curriculum
Cultural Orientation Resource Center, Center for Applied Linguistics
The Curriculum was funded by the Office of Refugee Resettlement for use by service providers assisting refugees and asylees outside the Reception and Placement program. This curriculum is composed of 26 lesson plans covering the key topics of orientation including a section on health care.
Revamped website COR
Resource: Cultural Orientation Resource Center
Center for Applied Linguistics
The Cultural Orientation Resource (COR) Center is pleased to announce its revamped website that is designed to facilitate access to the broad variety of COR Center materials.
Refugee Seniors in the U.S. Video
Resource: “Refugee Seniors in the U.S.” Video
Cultural Orientation Resource Center at Center for Applied Linguistics
Interviews with refugee seniors speaking about their refugee backgrounds and their experiences of learning English, employment, and transportation.
COR Center YouTube channel
Resource: COR Center YouTube Channel
Cultural Orientation Resource Center/Center for Applied Linguistics
New YouTube channel includes “When I Came to America” videos for Bhutanese, Burmese, and Darfuri refugee communities and “Refugee Seniors in the United States” video.
Safe, Smart & Healthy: Keys to Success in Your New Home
Resource: Safe, Smart & Healthy: Keys to Success in Your New Home
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services
Video includes chapters on: medical care & health insurance, family issues & domestic violence, medications & home remedies, personal hygiene, substance use, and food safety. DVD copies available in multiple languages. Contact Sarah Russell (Sarah.Russell@jfs.ohio.gov) for more information.
Refugee Groups Resource Packages
Resource: Refugee Groups Resource Packages
Cultural Orientation Resource Center, Center for Applied Linguistics
Resources designed to assist in orientation, resettlement, and adjustment of a variety of refugee groups.