Care Facilitation
Open Enrollment has begun! Healthy PA, Pennsylvania’s Medicaid Expansion plan, and the Marketplace are now open. All refugees are eligible for coverage, so encourage your clients and patients to sign up now! The following locations are offering on-site enrollment assistance: NSC, SEAMAAC, Bhutanese Association of Philadelpia and many health centers! Questions? Contact Jarett Beaudoin at jbeaudoin@nscphila.org.
A complete list of ACA tools including links to these resources is available on the PRHC website here.
Partnership and Training
The HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement and the Philadelphia Refugee Health Collaborative (Dr. Sandra Wolf and Gretchen Shanfeld) will share perspectives on how to effectively meet the needs of new refugees in the health care setting on Friday, December 5th at 2:00pm. To access the webinar:
Call: 800-369-3147
URL: https://www.mymeetings.com/nc/join/
Conference number: PW9518928, Audience passcode: 3226615
Participants can join the event directly (video and sound) at: https://www.mymeetings.com/nc/join.php?i=PW9518928&p=3226615&t=c
The Philadelphia Partnership for Resilience, in partnership with Dr. David Goodwin, will offer training on working with immigrant survivors of torture on Friday, December 12. Check out the flyer and register here.
The Cultural Orientation Resource Center has recently published a backgrounder on the Syrian refugee population. The backgrounder along with backgrounders on other refugee populations is available on the PRHC website.
Best Practices
The Philadelphia Refugee Mental Health Collaborative has produced videos as part of a technical assistance toolkit. The videos can be used as teaching tools and focus on promoting wellness within refugee communities. The videos are available on the PRHC website here.
Research
Temple University has completed its research focused on women’s health access. The full publication is available on the PRHC website here.
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