We have curated a multimedia library of content developed both by Switchboard and by former ORR-funded TA providers. You can browse the library by resource type, view a full list of uploads, or use the search area to access content by topic, author, year, and more.
Your search for Toolkits yielded 54 result(s).
Toolkit: Community-led Messaging for COVID-19 Contact Tracing
Author(s): National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants, and Migrants (NRC-RIM), University of Minnesota
Date: February 12, 2021
Topic(s): Health
Subtopic(s): COVID-19
Date: February 12, 2021
Topic(s): Health
Subtopic(s): COVID-19
Contact tracing is a critical tool in our collective approach to ending the pandemic. This toolkit was designed to support leaders with expertise and extensive knowledge of their communities to create a customized contact tracing messaging campaign that is rooted in that community’s values, motivations, and realities. We know that customized health communications that are …
Community-led Messaging for COVID-19 Contact Tracing Read More »
Toolkit: Safety Planning with Foreign National Children and Youth Survivors of Trafficking
Author(s): U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI)
Date: February 2, 2021
Topic(s): Child, Youth, and Family Services, Safety
Subtopic(s): Child and Youth Wellbeing, Safety Planning, Screening and Assessment
Date: February 2, 2021
Topic(s): Child, Youth, and Family Services, Safety
Subtopic(s): Child and Youth Wellbeing, Safety Planning, Screening and Assessment
Foreign national minors in the United States who have been subjected to a severe form of trafficking in persons are eligible for certain benefits and services under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000, as amended. The Trafficking Victim Assistance Program (TVAP) funds case management services for qualifying minors. This toolkit uses notes, tips, …
Safety Planning with Foreign National Children and Youth Survivors of Trafficking Read More »
Toolkit: Establishing & Maintaining Inclusive Emergency Management with Immigrant & Refugee Populations
Author(s): Welcoming America
Date: January 21, 2021
Topic(s): Community Engagement, Safety
Subtopic(s): Emergency Preparedness
Date: January 21, 2021
Topic(s): Community Engagement, Safety
Subtopic(s): Emergency Preparedness
This toolkit is designed to help strengthen existing emergency preparedness plans by ensuring immigrants and refugees are part of any emergency response. It contains checklists on inclusive communication practices, community assessments, building trust with refugee communities, and more.
Toolkit: My Body. My Health: A Health Education Toolkit
Author(s): Centre for Culture, Ethnicity, and Health
Date: October 19, 2020
Topic(s): Health, Mental Health and Wellness
Subtopic(s): Food Security and Nutrition
Date: October 19, 2020
Topic(s): Health, Mental Health and Wellness
Subtopic(s): Food Security and Nutrition
This toolkit includes a series of five educational presentations to help organizations deliver health information to women from migrant and refugee backgrounds. Topics covered include: health checks, good food for good health, move more sit less, how to feel more positive in life, and the importance of vitamin D. Each PowerPoint presentation is available to download …
Toolkit: Building Capacity to Support the Mental Health of Immigrants and Refugees: A Toolkit for Settlement, Social, and Health Service Providers
Author(s): Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Date: May 28, 2020
Topic(s): Mental Health and Wellness
Date: May 28, 2020
Topic(s): Mental Health and Wellness
This toolkit is designed to provide a snapshot of essential information, tools, resources, and examples of promising practices that can be integrated into the daily work of settlement, social, and health service providers across Canada, with the aim of building the capacity to better support the mental health unique needs of immigrants and refugees. This …
Toolkit: U.S. Citizenship Practice Questions & Answers
Author(s): USAHello
Date: January 1, 2020
Topic(s): Adult Education, Immigration Legal Needs
Subtopic(s): Citizenship
Date: January 1, 2020
Topic(s): Adult Education, Immigration Legal Needs
Subtopic(s): Citizenship
USAHello has compiled the 2008 and 2020 U.S. citizenship test questions and answers in translated languages. The citizenship test is also known as the civics or naturalization test. For some languages, videos are available in which native speakers read the text of each question aloud in both English and the translated language. This provides aspiring …
Toolkit: Launching and Strengthening Career Pathways Programs
Author(s): Switchboard
Date: October 17, 2019
Topic(s): Employment
Subtopic(s): Career Advancement, Job Development
Date: October 17, 2019
Topic(s): Employment
Subtopic(s): Career Advancement, Job Development
Successfully building a career pathways program often means forming collaborative community partnerships and tapping into new funding streams. This toolkit, a follow-up resource to Switchboard’s Job Counseling for Career Pathways toolkit, will highlight various approaches to career pathways programming and demonstrate how partnerships and diverse funding streams can be leveraged to expand career pathways programming …
Launching and Strengthening Career Pathways Programs Read More »
Toolkit: Data-Driven State Refugee Programs: Lessons from the Field on Managing, Analyzing, and Using Data to Improve Refugee Programs
Author(s): Switchboard, Urban Institute
Date: September 11, 2019
Topic(s): Monitoring and Evaluation
Subtopic(s): Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Quality, Evaluation and Research, Presenting Data, Project Design and M&E Planning, Using Data and Evidence
Date: September 11, 2019
Topic(s): Monitoring and Evaluation
Subtopic(s): Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Quality, Evaluation and Research, Presenting Data, Project Design and M&E Planning, Using Data and Evidence
Switchboard contracted with the Urban Institute for the development of this toolkit. Data and evidence can play a critical role in program management if those data are designed, collected, and analyzed with programming goals in mind and grounded in the reality of how programs work. As state refugee coordinators (SRCs) manage and coordinate refugee services, …
Toolkit: Leveraging Feedback in Community Engagement
Author(s): Switchboard
Date: June 11, 2019
Topic(s): Community Engagement
Subtopic(s): Welcoming Communities
Date: June 11, 2019
Topic(s): Community Engagement
Subtopic(s): Welcoming Communities
This toolkit suggests three ways to integrate basic community feedback structures in your programs: implementing a community consultation working group, conducting an annual volunteer survey, and providing training to staff on responding to community concerns and compliments. It includes a range of tools and templates you can use to integrate these three approaches into your community …
Toolkit: Job Counseling for Career Pathways
Author(s): Switchboard
Date: April 22, 2019
Topic(s): Employment
Subtopic(s): Career Advancement
Date: April 22, 2019
Topic(s): Employment
Subtopic(s): Career Advancement
Job Counseling for Career Pathways is the first of two Switchboard toolkits focused on strengthening career pathways programming. This toolkit will focus on things you can do right away (without much additional funding) to strengthen your career pathways efforts, including: identifying client motivations and needs, collaborating with clients to set goals and action steps, and …
