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Responding to the Mental Health and Other Needs of Immigrants and Refugees

June 12, 2012 | Program Result Report

The Center for Multicultural Human Services and Northern Virginia Family Service developed a training and technical assistance program to help mental health providers better serve the mental health and other needs of immigrants and refugees.

The Immigrants and Refugees New Arrivals Advocacy Project

September 9, 2011 | Program Result Report

The Center for Children's Advocacy in Hartford, Conn., operated a medical-legal advocacy project to improve the health of new immigrant and refugee children.

Partnering with Parents and Families to Support Immigrant and Refugee Children at School

June 1, 2009 | Issue Brief

This paper outlines model programs that engage communities and community organizations to build effective and easily-accessible mental health services for children and youth.

Implementing Trauma Interventions in Schools

January 1, 2012 | Book

This book chapter examines the successes and barriers associated with four interventions of Caring Across Communities (CAC), aimed at bringing school-connected mental health services to children of immigrants and refugees.

Helping Students Do Well in School in Bucks County, Pa.

November 20, 2011 | Story

Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth provided school-based mental health services and connections to various social services to Liberian refugees at one middle school in Bucks County, Pa.

Continuing School-Connected Mental Health Services

November 20, 2011 | Story

Minneapolis, Imperial County, Calif., and Chatham County, N.C., sustained school-connected mental health services for immigrants and refugees started under Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth.

Increasing Understanding of Immigrant and Refugee Families

November 20, 2011 | Story

In Portland, Maine, Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth, helped social workers, case managers, and therapists provide school-connected mental health and related services to immigrants and refugees.

The Midwest Immigrant Health Project

June 27, 2011 | Program Result Report

The Center for New Community conducted a grassroots effort to address health and related problems of immigrants working in meatpacking and poultry-processing plants in 12 rural communities in Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota.

Screening and Assessing Immigrant and Refugee Youth in School-Based Mental Health Programs

May 1, 2008 | Issue Brief

This paper provides an overview of mental health screening, identification and assessment tools that practitioners and researchers working with immigrant and refugee youth can utilize.

NYC's Immigrant Restaurant Workers Get Information and Resources

February 25, 2011 | Program Result Report

The Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York City (ROC) assessed and addressed the lack of health information and resources among low-wage immigrant restaurant workers.

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