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Archived Webinar: Trauma-Informed Care: Understanding and Addressing the Needs of Unaccompanied Children
Author(s): NCTSN
Date: July 11, 2005
Topic(s): Children/Youth and Family Services, Mental Health and Wellness
Subtopic(s): Child Wellbeing, Youth Wellbeing
Date: July 11, 2005
Topic(s): Children/Youth and Family Services, Mental Health and Wellness
Subtopic(s): Child Wellbeing, Youth Wellbeing
This webinar series covers the impact of trauma on children during all phases of their migration journey. The series features diverse expertise from the fields of refugee and migrant health, cultural studies, mental health, early childhood development, childhood traumatic stress, trauma-informed systems of care, and secondary traumatic stress.
Tip Sheet: Brochure – Renting Housing in the United States – A Guide for New Americans
Author(s): Mercy Housing
Date: April 15, 2005
Topic(s): Housing
Subtopic(s): Housing Orientation
Date: April 15, 2005
Topic(s): Housing
Subtopic(s): Housing Orientation
The first step to being a successful renter is understanding your rights and responsibilities. Renting Housing in the United States: A Guide for New Americans is a three-fold brochure that provides useful tips on what you need to know to obtain and maintain rental housing. The information is essentially a very condensed version of that …
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Tip Sheet: Brochure – A Landlord’s Guide to Renting to Refugees
Author(s): Mercy Housing
Date: April 8, 2005
Topic(s): Housing
Subtopic(s): Landlords
Date: April 8, 2005
Topic(s): Housing
Subtopic(s): Landlords
Renting to Refugees: A Landlord’s Guide is an informative brochure designed to be given to landlords. It describes why refugees are good renters, identifies resettlement resources of interest to property managers, and provides tips on problem solving issues between property managers and refugees.
Tip Sheet: Active Tuberculosis (TB) Disease
Author(s): Minnesota Dept of Health
Date: February 14, 2005
Topic(s): Health
Subtopic(s): Tuberculosis
Date: February 14, 2005
Topic(s): Health
Subtopic(s): Tuberculosis
This fact sheet gives general information about active tuberculosis (TB) disease including symptoms, complications, tests, and treatment. This resource is available in the following languages: Amharic Arabic Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian English French Hmong Khmer Karen Laotian Nepali Oromo Russian Somali Spanish Tibetan Vietnamese
Video: Children of War: A Video for Educators
Author(s): NCTSN
Date: January 1, 2005
Topic(s): Children/Youth and Family Services, Mental Health and Wellness
Subtopic(s): Child Wellbeing, Youth Education, Youth Wellbeing
Date: January 1, 2005
Topic(s): Children/Youth and Family Services, Mental Health and Wellness
Subtopic(s): Child Wellbeing, Youth Education, Youth Wellbeing
This video presents five adolescent refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq, El Salvador, Sierra Leone, and Somalia who tell their stories of war, traumatic loss, and relocation to the United States in the play Children of War. There is also an accompanying resource guide that includes discussion questions, suggestions about ways schools and teachers can help refugee …
Guide: Building Bridges – a Guide to Planning and Implementing Cross-Service Training
Author(s): Bridging Refugee Youth and Children's Services (BRYCS)
Date: July 6, 2003
Topic(s): Children/Youth and Family Services
Subtopic(s): Child Wellbeing
Date: July 6, 2003
Topic(s): Children/Youth and Family Services
Subtopic(s): Child Wellbeing
This guide was created to communicate lessons learned from cross-service trainings held in St. Louis, MO and Atlanta, GA that brought together service providers from a variety of agencies to explore possibilities that would strengthen service capacity in their communities. It is intended to guide readers through the process of developing local cross-service trainings and …
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Tip Sheet: Talking to Children about War and Terrorism
Author(s): NCTSN
Date: February 19, 2003
Topic(s): Children/Youth and Family Services, Mental Health and Wellness
Subtopic(s): Child Wellbeing
Date: February 19, 2003
Topic(s): Children/Youth and Family Services, Mental Health and Wellness
Subtopic(s): Child Wellbeing
This resource provides parents and caregivers with information about how to talk to children about war and terrorism. It offers what to do before you talk to children, how to talk to children of different ages, monitoring children’s exposure to the media, how to share your own opinions and beliefs, which children may need special …
Guide: Review of Child and Adolescent Refugee Mental Health
Author(s): NCTSN
Date: January 14, 2003
Topic(s): Children/Youth and Family Services, Mental Health and Wellness
Subtopic(s): Child Wellbeing, Youth Wellbeing
Date: January 14, 2003
Topic(s): Children/Youth and Family Services, Mental Health and Wellness
Subtopic(s): Child Wellbeing, Youth Wellbeing
This resource gives an overview of child and adolescent refugee mental health. This white paper offers providers information on phases of the refugee experience, stressors affecting refugee children, coping and protecting children from stress, common stress reactions and outcomes, intervention for refugee children and families, and implications for working with refugees.