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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 …
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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 …
Toolkit: Improving Well-Being for Refugees in Primary Care: A Toolkit for Providers
Author(s): Center for Victims of Torture (CVT)
Date: March 4, 2019
Topic(s): Health, Mental Health and Wellness
Date: March 4, 2019
Topic(s): Health, Mental Health and Wellness
This is a Center for Victims of Torture (CVT)-produced toolkit focusing specifically on improving health care interventions for refugees in the primary care setting in the United States. It was developed based on CVT’s 35 years of providing care to torture and war trauma survivors in Minnesota and 5 years of exporting that care to …
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Toolkit: Job Readiness Curriculum
Author(s): Higher
Date: September 28, 2018
Topic(s): Employment
Subtopic(s): Job Readiness
Date: September 28, 2018
Topic(s): Employment
Subtopic(s): Job Readiness
Job readiness is one of the most important components of resettlement as it helps clients prepare for and integrate into the American workforce. This course empowers clients to find and succeed in jobs in the United States. It also offers tools to help them understand their documents and their rights as American workers, career path …
Toolkit: Welcoming Refugees in Rural Communities: Promising Examples from the Field
Author(s): Welcoming America
Date: September 20, 2018
Topic(s): Community Engagement
Subtopic(s): Welcoming Communities
Date: September 20, 2018
Topic(s): Community Engagement
Subtopic(s): Welcoming Communities
This toolkit profiles four rural initiatives that are successfully bringing together community residents and refugees and demonstrating what is possible when all residents are connected, supported, and involved. Many refugees make their new homes in rural communities, which often offer steady employment, affordable housing, social cohesion, and, for many, the chance to live in a …
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Toolkit: Building Meaningful Contact: A How To Guide
Author(s): Welcoming America
Date: September 13, 2018
Topic(s): Community Engagement
Subtopic(s): Welcoming Communities
Date: September 13, 2018
Topic(s): Community Engagement
Subtopic(s): Welcoming Communities
This how-to guide explores lessons learned from promising models for contact building from across the United States, and delves deeper into a series of activities that the nonprofit Welcoming Michigan conducted in Macomb County, Michigan. By focusing on one example in particular, readers are able to learn step-by-step how to plan, implement, and follow-up on …
Toolkit: The Welcoming Economies Playbook: Strategies for Building an inclusive Economy
Author(s): Welcoming America
Date: August 1, 2018
Topic(s): Community Engagement, Employment
Date: August 1, 2018
Topic(s): Community Engagement, Employment
This toolkit describes how to develop an inclusive approach to economic development, shares tips for success, and offers strategies in areas such as workforce development, entrepreneurship, home ownership, and urban and rural agriculture.
Toolkit: Promoting Refugee and Community Wellness
Author(s): National Partnership for Community Training (NPCT), Welcoming America
Date: May 1, 2018
Topic(s): Community Engagement, Mental Health and Wellness
Date: May 1, 2018
Topic(s): Community Engagement, Mental Health and Wellness
This toolkit explores the connections between wellness and welcoming communities. Created in partnership by the National Partnership for Community Training and Welcoming America, the toolkit focuses on how those from diverse sectors – such as academics, employers, health providers, and neighbors – can create a vibrant ecosystem that supports refugee and community wellness.
