Care Facilitation
Get up to date on Affordable Care Act, Medicaid Expansion and its impact on refugees via a recorded webinar. Jarett Beaduoin provides a 30 minute overview.
Join Community Legal Services for an in-depth webinar focused on Healthy PA on Friday, November 7 from 11am to 12:15pm.
Read more about the Healthy PA plan implementation and view a webinar from PA DPW here.
A complete list of ACA tools including links to these resources is available on the PRHC website here.
Partnership and Training
Full slides, bios and related documents from the North American Refugee Health Conference are now available here. The 2015 Conference will be held from June 4 – 6, 2015 in Toronto.
Additionally, the NARHC Committee is undertaking a survey to determine interest in the formation of a National Society of Refugee Healthcare Providers. You can contribute to the survey here.
The University of Texas has published a report titled The Continuity of Risk: A three-city study of Congolese women-at-risk resettled in the U.S. Find the full text here.
Best Practices
New Resources for Deaf or Hard of Hearing Refugees: DeafCAN! has the resources to do outreach, provide ASL classes, and assist with hearing aid applications for your patients with hearing loss. Please refer eligible clients to Jarett Beaudoin at jbeaudoin@nscphila.org. Additionally, check out this short report on hearing loss and the Hear Now Hearing Aid program published by NSC and the Jefferson Center for Refugee Health.
Research
Please help us keep the PRHC research page up to date! Submit your complete work, new research projects and any updates to Gretchen Shanfeld at gshanfeld@nscphila.org.
Advocacy
Join us for a webinar on Refugees and Social Security Disability and Refugees on Wednesday, December 10th from 12pm to 1pm. Sign up here
