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Evaluation of Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth This evaluation aims to document a number of impacts associated with school-connected interventions delivered across 15 different communities around the country, with an emphasis on overcoming cultural and language barriers of children in immigrant and refugee...	Evaluations, Evaluation projects	05/04/2009
Intimate Partner Violence in Immigrant and Refugee Communities: Challenges, Promising Practices and Recommendations This report describes intimate partner violence (IPV) in immigrant and refugee communities in the United States.	Reports	04/07/2009
Webinar: Overcoming Language Issues Working with Refugees and Immigrants The webinar will focus on how various health and mental health systems meet the challenge of addressing language needs of immigrant and refugee families through interpretation services.	Stories and articles	03/05/2009
An Immigrant Community Takes Actions Against Drug Addiction The Head Start program in New York City developed Project Right Start, a family and community-strengthening model that prepares parents to participate actively in community efforts to address substance abuse and related issues.	Grant Results Reports	09/05/2008
Screening and Assessing Immigrant and Refugee Youth in School-Based Mental Health Programs This paper provides an overview of mental health screening, identification and assessment tools that practitioners and researchers working with immigrant and refugee youth can utilize.	Issue and policy briefs	06/25/2008
Prevalence and Correlates of Everyday Discrimination Among U.S. Latinos This study considers how Latinos in the United States perceive discrimination and shows how everyday experiences differ among various subgroups. These findings are important in helping us understand disparities in health among different populations. Published In: Journal of Community Psychology	Journal articles	05/02/2008
Memphis Medical Center (the MED) Improves Language Services for Spanish-Speaking Patients Through RWJF's Hablamos Juntos Program From 2002 to 2006, the Regional Medical Center at Memphis, known as the MED, in Memphis, Tenn., improved and expanded language services for Spanish-speaking patients throughout the organization.	Grant Results Reports	10/15/2007
Grant Results Topic Summary: Immigrants This Topic Summary synthesizes Grant Results reports on completed RWJF-supported projects that focused on immigrants to the United States.	Grant Results special reports, Grant Results topic summaries	05/18/2007
Experts Recommend Web-Based Information Network to Improve Health Care of Refugees and Immigrants The Center for Public Service Communications held two meetings to discuss ways to improve access to culturally and linguistically appropriate health care information among refugee and immigrant communities.	Grant Results Reports	04/17/2007
TB Project Screens Migrant Workers in the Field and Tracks Them From State-to-State The State of Florida established a system for tuberculosis testing, assessment and treatment services for its migrant farmworker population in Northeast Florida and attempted to set up the model in South Florida.	Grant Results Reports	03/06/2007

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