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Implementing Trauma Interventions in Schools

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.

Helping Students Do Well in School in Bucks County, Pa.

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.

Continuing School-Connected Mental Health Services

November 20, 2011 | Story

Minneapolis, Imperial County, Calif., and Chatham County, N.C., sustained school-connected mental health services for immigrants and refugees started under Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth.

Increasing Understanding of Immigrant and Refugee Families

November 20, 2011 | Story

In Portland, Maine, Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth, helped social workers, case managers, and therapists provide school-connected mental health and related services to immigrants and refugees.

The Immigrants and Refugees New Arrivals Advocacy Project

September 9, 2011 | Program Result

The Center for Children's Advocacy in Hartford, Conn., operated a medical-legal advocacy project to improve the health of new immigrant and refugee children.

Hispanic Paradox in Adult Mortality in the United States

January 1, 2011 | Book

This article provides fresh evidence of low mortality rates among adult and older Hispanic immigrants. The authors cite numerous studies, including several refuting "salmon-bias " Hispanic neighborhoods seem to provide cultural support systems promoting good health.

Partnering with Parents and Families to Support Immigrant and Refugee Children at School

June 1, 2009 | Issue Brief

This paper outlines model programs that engage communities and community organizations to build effective and easily-accessible mental health services for children and youth.

Community Health Leaders Address Health and Health Care for Immigrants and Their Families

April 1, 2009 | Report

These are the findings from a new report by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Community Health Leaders.

Evaluating Models for Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence in Immigrant and Refugee Communities

July 6, 2011 | Story

A profile of Nathaniel Tashima, PhD, and Cathleen E. Crain, MA

The Midwest Immigrant Health Project

June 27, 2011 | Program Result

The Center for New Community conducted a grassroots effort to address health and related problems of immigrants working in meatpacking and poultry-processing plants in 12 rural communities in Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota.

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