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Cultural Competency
The Cross Cultural Health Care Program
The website provides a limited bibliography of cultural competency assessment tools, including individual and organizational self-assessment instruments and contact information to order The Bridging the Gap Interpreter Handbook and other publications such as research projects.
The Center for Victims of Torture (CVT)
This website features a very comprehensive description of refugee experiences in trying to acculturate in America. See “New Americans, New Promise: A Guide to the Refugee Journey in America” by Yorn Yan.
Cultural Orientation Resource Center (COR)
The Cultural Orientation Resource (COR) Center provides important orientation resources for refugee newcomers and service providers throughout the United States and overseas.
The National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC)
The website provides information on the Conceptual Frameworks/ Models, Guiding Values and Principles, Definitions of Cultural and Linguistic Competence Compelling Need for Cultural and Linguistic Competence, Policies to Advance and Sustain Cultural and Linguistic Competence Tools, and Processes for Self-Assessment.
The National Center for Cultural Healing (NCCH)
NCCH training and technical assistance staff can join with your organization to lay a foundation and develop frameworks for group success, results-oriented learning, purposeful change, and cultural healing and well being.
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American Immigration Lawyers Association
The website provides an Immigration Lawyer Search, Immigration Reports and Studies and Helpful Guides and Links among other useful information regarding immigration law.
Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC)*
Promote Refugee Citizenship and Civic Participation
The website provides an abundance of resources on citizenship and civic participation. Reports, guides, articles and more are readily available to the public. In addition, a ListServ has been created to provide updates on policy changes, resources, and other information regarding refugee citizenship and civic participation.
Human Rights First
Human Rights First believes that building respect for human rights and the rule of law will help ensure the dignity to which every individual is entitled and will stem tyranny, extremism, intolerance, and violence.
Rocky Mountain Survivor Center
The website contains a wealth of legal resources pertaining to refugees and survivors of torture in particular.The center offers asylum legal representation, healthcare and psychosocial services, is actively pursuing building the capacity of other providers to respond to the needs of torture survivors, and is building a community development component to the work.
US Department of Justice
EOIR Legal Orientation and Pro Bono Program
Since April of 2000, the Legal Orientation and Pro Bono Program have worked to improve access to legal advice and counseling and increase rates of representation for immigrants appearing before the Immigration Courts and Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA).
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
Main page to find information and important links on how to apply for Permanent Residency, Case Status Information Online and Processing Times, Changing Your Address with USCIS, Information For Employers, Current Non-Immigrant Worker Visa Cap, Visiting the U.S., and more.
Preventing Torture through investigation and documentation
The website gives comprehensive information on how to conduct legal investigations and medical evaluation of alleged cases of torture and provides examples of court cases that have relied on evidence secured by using the Istanbul Protocol. The website also has a range of additional resources and news for health and legal professionals working in the human rights field.
The website is one component of a larger European Commission-funded project, Prevention through Documentation, which aims to further awareness, national endorsement and practical use of the Istanbul Protocol.
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Medical
Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights
The website features Caring for Refugees and Survivors of Torture, an introductory human rights internet-based course for health professionals, lawyers, trainees, and human rights advocates and for those who want to learn about survivors of torture and refugee trauma. The website is full of resources for anyone desiring more information about torture treatment.
Doctors of the World (DOW)
Doctors of the World is an international health and human rights organization working where health is diminished or endangered by violations of human rights and civil liberties.
Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Border/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an independent international medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural or man-made disasters, or exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries.
The Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT)
HPRT has adapted and developed the major research tools necessary to conduct large scale epidemiological and clinical studies.
Medical Examinations, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
The website contains important information and documents pertaining to medical requirements related to the immigration process.
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)
The website provides extensive information, resources and links, also PHR’s activities on: Health Action AIDS, Darfur Survival Campaign, Campaign Against Torture, Health and Justice for Youth, Campaign to Ban Landmines, Investigations, International Forensic Program, and Asylum Network.
Preventing Torture through investigation and documentation
The website gives comprehensive information on how to conduct legal investigations and medical evaluation of alleged cases of torture and provides examples of court cases that have relied on evidence secured by using the Istanbul Protocol. The website also has a range of additional resources and news for health and legal professionals working in the human rights field.
The website is one component of a larger European Commission-funded project, Prevention through Documentation, which aims to further awareness, national endorsement and practical use of the Istanbul Protocol.
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Mental Health
Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma (ASTT)
The ASTT website offers a general overview of torture and the torture field. Their model is also outlined including their client-centered approach and considerations for mental health care for torture survivors.
Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights
Many survivors of torture are affected emotionally by their torture experiences. In order to create a treatment plan, assess the need for medication, and write an affidavit, it is important to evaluate the presence of psychiatric symptoms and their impact on functioning.
Center for Victims of Torture (CVT)
The website has a growing Resource Center that includes comprehensive tools and materials to guide and inform the work with torture survivors.
The Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma
Mental Health Action Plan
The Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT), originally founded at the Harvard School of Public Health, is a multi-disciplinary program that has been pioneering the health and mental health care of traumatized refugees and civilians in areas of conflict/post-conflict and natural disasters for over two decades. Its clinical program serves as a global model that has been replicated worldwide.
The National Center for PTSD
The website is an educational resource on PTSD and traumatic stress, for veterans and also for mental health care providers, researchers and the general public.
National Center for Trauma Informed Care (NCTIC)
The Center assists publicly-funded agencies, programs, and services in making the important cultural shift to a more trauma-informed environment that benefits both systems and consumers - an environment that is more supportive, comprehensively integrated, and empowering for trauma survivors.
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
The website provides extensive materials and resources relating to evidenced-based approaches in the field of mental health.
The Refuge Media Project
The Refuge Media Project's primary project is a series of video documentaries, the first one of which is Refuge: Caring for Survivors of Torture, now in production. In addition, they are developing a set of video and web resources for professionals and others working with survivors of torture, and a comprehensive online database of existing resources.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration*
The SAMHSA website has extensive resources including statistics, publications, fact sheets and information on new initiatives. SAMHSA also provides a National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices on their site.
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Social Service
Child Welfare
Bridging Refugee Youth and Children’s Services (BRYCS)*
Joint Project of LIRS and USCCB/MRS
BRYCS provides a handbook titled Raising Children in a New Country: An Illustrated Handbook (Get complete document). This booklet was created as a tool for refugee and immigrant serving agencies, as they help newcomer parents adjust to the different laws, norms and practices around raising children in the United States.
Education
Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning *
English Language Training
Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning is a non-profit language and culture training and consulting corporation. We work with people and organizations all over the world, helping turn cultural differences into assets.
Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights
Caring for Refugees and Survivors of Torture is an introductory human rights internet-based course for health professionals, lawyers, trainees, and human rights advocates who want to learn about survivors of torture and refugee trauma.
Employment
Refugee Works*
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS)
The website dedicates an entire page for service providers, which contains useful resources and information on training, consulting, publications, and an internet resource center. This page also offers an online forum for service providers.
Institute for Social and Economic Development (ISED Solutions)*
Employment Subsidy Programs
ISED provides consulting and evaluation services to organizations focused on refugee and immigrant services so that they may improve social and economic outcomes for low-income people.
Housing
Mercy Housing*
The website contains useful and practical information such as finding affordable housing and working with landlords.
Mutual Assistance Associations
International Rescue Committee (IRC)*
Project SOAR
Project SOAR (Strengthening Organizations Assisting Refugees) is a program of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) that provides technical assistance to community based organizations around the country that have been started by refugees to assist their own communities. Funded by the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), the program provides technical assistance in the area of organizational capacity building to ensure that these groups, founded by and for refugees, accomplish their missions, serve their beneficiaries effectively, and engage in long-term strategic planning.
Institute for Social and Economic Development (ISED Solutions)*
ISED offers technical assistance that can help assist refugees to achieve economic self-sufficiency within the shortest possible time after entrance to the State.
Refugee Crime Prevention
Outreach to New Americans*
National Prevention Council
Outreach to New Americans (ONA) promotes partnerships between refugee communities and law enforcement agencies to address the problem of crime and crime victimization in refugee communities.
ONA is no longer funded, but its website provides useful information such as publications and links to other programs relating to crime and crime victimization in refugee communities.
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Spiritual Support
Spiritual Strength
Read this interesting information as a basis for how many human beings including the refugee and torture survivors you work with utilize this as a most powerful resource that has helped them in their survival. “Spiritual strength can help you get through even the most stressful times in life.”
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