Resources on working with refugees and immigrants geared toward healthcare or social service providers
American Heart
An Emmy nominated documentary following three refugees as they are diagnosed with serious health conditions and have to navigate the American Healthcare System.
The Medicine Box Project
The Medicine Box Project harnesses the power of moving pictures to foster understanding of refugees and the complexities of their healthcare. Our short documentaries call on real-life patients and their healthcare providers to illuminate the challenges inherent to refugee resettlement and the effect the refugee experience has on physical and mental health.
Cultural Orientation Resource Center (COR)
The Cultural Orientation Resource Center funded by the U.S. Department of State,e Bureeau of Population, Refugees, and Migration to ensure that CO is effective, accurate, and culturally and linguistically appropriate, as well as to produce reliable and useful information about refugee groups. The COR Center works closely with U.S. government agencies, international organizations, providers, community partners, mainstream service providers, and area specialist to assess needs and develop relevant and timely online and hard-copy orientation resources and group-specific materials.
Ethnomed
EthnoMed contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and related topics pertinent to the health care of immigrants to Seattle or the US, many of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world.
Hopkins Center for Health Disparity Solutions, John Hopkins University
- Cultural Competency Collaborative
- Cultural Competency Organizational Assessment
North American Refugee Health Conference
Office of Minority Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Cultural Competency
Think Cultural Health Website
Refugee Health Technical Assistance Center
RHTAC is funded by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). The Refugee and Immigrant Health Program, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, is the lead agency. The RHTAC leadership team consists of nationally-recognized organizations with extensive experience in the field of refugee health and in improving the quality of services to refugees.
Resources on working with refugees and survivors of torture or trauma geared toward mental health & substance abuse professionals
National Partnership for Community Training
- Webinar: Advancing Promising Practices in the Torture Treatment Field
- Webinar: Addressing Mental Health, PTSD, and Suicide in Refugee Communities
- Webinar: Substance Abuse and the Torture Survivor Experience
- Substance Abuse and the Torture Survivor Experience Information Guide
- Group Treatment Information Guide
- A Toolkit for Healing the Wounds of Violence
- Torture Survivors Five Part Video Series
- Country Condition Reports
- Refugee Mental Health Bibliography
Refugee Health Technical Assistance Center Youth and Mental Health
- Refugee Services Toolkit
- Webinar: Suicide Among Refugees
- Refugee Health Screener 15
- Webinar: Introducing and Operationalizing the RHS-15
- Webinar: Refugee Mental Health
Intercultural Counseling Connection
- Resources for Providers
Resources on working with refugee youth or traumatized children geared toward education professionals
Bridging Refugee Youth & Childrens Services
- Schools Toolkit
- Crossroads: The Psychology of Immigration in the New Century
- BRYCS Parenting Conversations: Mary, A Sudanese Mother
- BRYCS Parenting Conversations: Farah, an Iraqi Mother
- BRYCS Parenting Conversations: Klee Thoo, a Burmese Karen Father
National Child Traumatic Stress Network
- Refugee and War Zone Trauma
- Children of War Video
- Refugee Services Toolkit
- For Educators: Resources for School Personal
- Child Trauma: A toolkit for Educators
- What are the Stressors Associated with Being a Refugee
- Suggestions for Educators
- Selfcare for Educators
National Partnership for Community Training
- Webinar: Working Clinically With Traumatized Refugee Children
- Youth Information Guide
- Torture Survivors Five Part Video Series
- Country Condition Reports
Refugee Health Technical Assistance Center Youth and Mental Health
- Refugee Services Toolkit
- Webinar: Suicide Among Refugees
- Webinar: Promoting Successful Adjustment for Refugee Youth
- Refugee Health Screener 15
- Webinar: Introducing and Operationalizing the RHS-15
- Webinar: Refugee Mental Health
The Center for Health and Healthcare in Schools
Children of Immigrants and Refugees: What the Research Tells US, April 2011
Cultural Competency Resources for Educators
- Center for Applied Linguistics
- Cultural Competence for Teachers
- Hard Truth, Levity, and Hope
- Mid Atlantic Equity Assistance Center Promoting Equity and Excellence for All: Welcoming and Teaching
- Newcomer Children in U.S. Schools
- National Education Association, Why Cultural Competence
- National Education Association, Diversity Toolkits
- Students with Interrupted Formal Education: A Challenge for New York City Public Schools
- Welcoming America, Welcoming To Our Schools Toolkit and Webinar
Books and Educational Materials
- Peters Map
The Peters Projection World Map is one of the most stimulating, and controversial, images of the world. When this map was first introduced by historian and cartographer Dr. Arno Peters at a Press Conference in Germany in 1974 it generated a firestorm of debate. The first English-version of the map was published in 1983, and it continues to have passionate fans as well as staunch detractors. - Zlatas Diary, Zlata Filupovic, 1994
- What is the What, Dave Eggers, 2006
- Outcasts United, Warren St. John, 2009
- Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees, Deborah Ellis, 2009
- How Does it Feel to be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America, Moustafa Bayoumi, 2009
- Human Cargo: A journey Among Refugees, Caroline Moorehead, 2005
- Making It Home: Real-Life Stories from Children Forced to Flee, Puffin Books, 2004
- Other Peoples Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, Lisa Delpit, 1995
- The Middle of Everywhere, Mary Pipher, 2002
- Understanding Your Refugee and Immigrant Students, Jeffra Flaitz, 2009
