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November 21, 2011 | Program Result
Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth brought school-connected mental health services to immigrants and refugees in 15 communities in eight states by developing model mental health programs.
November 20, 2011 | Story
Projects in Brooklyn, N.Y., Chicago and Los Angeles developed culturally competent school-connected mental health services for immigrants and refugees under Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth.
June 27, 2011 | Program Result
Fresh Ideas was a targeted solicitation for proposals that aimed to give immigrants and refugees the tools and support they need to improve and maintain their own health.
April 6, 2011 | Program Result
"We would never have gotten this information if the doctor had just gone in with broken Spanish," said Beth Ebel, M.D. "Often you don't know what you're getting into with medicine. If you don't know the nuances of the situation it can be a problem."
April 6, 2011 | Program Result
As the project manager at the University of Michigan said: "We could just grab the phone when patients came in who spoke languages for which we don't have an interpreter."
May 4, 2009 | Evaluation
This evaluation aims to document impacts associated with school-connected interventions with an emphasis on overcoming cultural and language barriers of children in immigrant and refugee families.
January 1, 2007 | Toolkit
Providing appropriate language services depends on a health care organization¿s ability to accurately screen for language needs among its patients and to identify patients¿ preferred language for health care encounters. The use of standardized practices to collect this information will provide the hospital with an accurate assessment of the need for interpreter services, translated materials and signage.
July 1, 1999 | Program Result
The Pilsen-Little Village Community Mental Health Center developed and implemented community-based interventions that would address sociocultural barriers to health care for Hispanic Americans in Chicago's Near South/West Side.
January 1, 2012 | Book
This book chapter examines the successes and barriers associated with four interventions of Caring Across Communities (CAC), aimed at bringing school-connected mental health services to children of immigrants and refugees.
November 20, 2011 | Story
Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth provided school-based mental health services and connections to various social services to Liberian refugees at one middle school in Bucks County, Pa.