Care Facilitation
CDC has produced and released a report on the health status of Congolese refugees. Full text is avialable here: http://www.cdc.gov/immigrantrefugeehealth/pdf/congolese-health-profile.pdf
An update on the Ebola outbreak from the CDC is available on the PRHC website:
Office of Refugee Resettlement just released videos about the ACA, which are available in 6 languages: Karen, Nepali, Somali, Arabic, Kinyarwanda, and English. Visit http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/health. Videos are also available on the PRHC website under Resources – Affordable Care Act.
CDC has released guidance on a case of pertussis of a Congolese pediatric patient arriving from Rwanda. Guidance is posted on the PRHC website:
As follow up to our discussion at the last PRHC meeting, please review Early Intervention flow chart for Philadelphia and the surrounding counties as well as resources for conducting developmental screening and links to the multi-lingual versions of the Survey of Well-being of Young Children (http://www.theswyc.org/) and the multilingual MCHAT (www.mchatscreen.com) on the PRHC website under Provider – Pediatric.
Partnership and Training
On Wednesday, October 29th from 12pm to 1pm, we will offer a webinar on Refugees and the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid Expansion. Please register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6666901210528667393 / Webinar ID: 124-444-219. Feel free to forward to others who might be interested.
On Monday, October 27th, the Family and Youth Services Bureaus’s Family Violence Prevention and Services Program and the Women and Trauma Federal Partners Committee present a webinar titled Culturally Specific Approaches to Trauma and Domestic Violence from 3pm to 4:30pm. Register here: https://ncdvtmh.webex.com/ncdvtmh/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=666035508
On Friday, November 7th, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health will offer a full day training on public health resources for refugees. A Save the Date flyer is available on the PRHC website:
Registration available soon!Best Practices
Richard Mollica of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma has published a new guide which introduces a new model for refugee care which includes 5 primary domains (referred to as the H5) to be addressed in effective healing / treatment of traumatized refugee populations: human rights, humiliation, healing (self-care), health promotion, and habitat & housing. A webinar on the model is available here:
http://nasmhpd.adobeconnect.com/p28vbm02xet/ and a guide is available on the PRHC website under Provider – Mental Health.Research
ORR has released a new statistical abstract for refugee resettlement stakeholders, available here: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/orr/statistical_abstract_for_refugee_resettlement_stakeholders_508.pdf. The abstract includes information for communities on topics including employment and health care.
Advocacy
The FY 2015 Presidential Determination (PD) on Refugee Admissions was signed by President Obama on Monday. The PD sets the ceiling for refugee admissions at 70,000. This number does not include Special Immigrant Visa holders (SIVs) that elect to receive resettlement benefits. The SIV projection for the year is currently set at 7,000.
