Virginia Adult ESOL Health Literacy Toolkit

Resource: Virginia Adult ESOL Health Literacy Toolkit
Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center, located at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Education
This toolkit offers explanations, tips, materials, and links to help ESOL teachers and programs better understand and address the health literacy challenges faced by adult English language learners in the U.S.

Refugee Patient Education Project is supported by the Central New York Community Foundation

Resource: Refugee Patient Education Project videos
Refugee Patient Education Project is supported by the Central New York Community Foundation
Videos about latent TB infection, parasites, and Hepatitis B in multiple refugee languages: Arabic, Burmese, Nepali, Somali, and Swahili. New clinician education video on female genital cutting is now available.

Healthcare Info Videos Karen and Burmese

Resource: Healthcare Information Videos in Karen and Burmese
Idaho Department of Health and Welfare & Burmese refugees.

Videos can be shown as part of a cultural orientation or before refugees’ health screening or first primary care visit.
Karen Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qebHxrNY5uE&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alq0W_gncFA&feature=plcp

Burmese Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvdqN3v8myM&feature=channel&list=UL

New Americans Health Info Portal

Resource: New Americans Health Information Portal
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Library of the Health Sciences
Portal to identified quality multi-lingual health education documents and receptacle for health documents created by Heartland’s Refugee Health Programs. Materials available in many refugee languages.