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How to Help Clients Complete the New 2020 Form W-4
As you may know, in 2019, the IRS announced changes to its Form W-4. These changes will apply to all employee wages in 2020. The W-4 is the IRS form that new employees fill out to let their employers know how much money to withhold from their paychecks for federal taxes. Chances are you may
Why Job Development Should Speed Up When Hiring Slows Down
If you’ve worked in employment services for a while, you know that the holidays (late November through early January) are often the slowest hiring months of the year. If there is one time of year when you feel like you’re terrible at your job, it’s probably during the so-called “most wonderful time of the year!”
How States and Other Refugee Service Providers are Using Infographics to Engage Communities
This blog post is part of a series on engaging with your local community to build support for refugee resettlement. See our previous posts on Sharing Refugee Stories to Build Community Support and Using Data to Tell Program Stories…Without Putting Your Audience to Sleep. Wondering whether your program data has potential for community engagement? Unsure
Using Data to Tell Program Stories…Without Putting Your Audience to Sleep
This blog post is part of a series on engaging with your local community to build support for refugee resettlement. See our previous post on Sharing Refugee Stories to Build Community Support and stay tuned for a forthcoming post on How States and Other Refugee Service Providers are Using Infographics to Engage Communities. Many of
Sharing Refugee Stories to Build Community Support
This blog post is part of a series on engaging with your local community to build support for refugee resettlement. Stay tuned for the forthcoming posts Using Data to Tell Program Stories…Without Putting Your Audience to Sleep and How States and Other Refugee Service Providers are Using Infographics to Engage Communities. Are you looking to
How States Can Benefit from Switchboard’s New Data Toolkit: A Perspective from a State Refugee Coordinator
This blog post accompanies a new toolkit developed by the Urban Institute as part of the Switchboard program: Data-Driven State Refugee Programs: Lessons from the field on managing, analyzing, and using data to improve refugee programs. What challenges do states face in tracking Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) program outcomes? States face a number of
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Trauma Informed Care: Preventing Crises and De-escalating Difficult Situations
Resettled refugees have frequently experienced past trauma and prolonged stress, which can continue following resettlement. These may contribute to situations
Diversifying Your Client Base: Increasing Enrollment of Asylees, Special Immigrant Visa Holders or SIVs, and Others in ORR programs
Is your program seeking to increase enrollment among special immigrant visa (SIV) holders, asylees, and other ORR-eligible populations? Stream
Trauma Informed Care: Movement Towards Practice
This information guide describes some of the common principles and guiding practices of trauma-informed care that can inform resettlement and