Covid-19 Resources
1. Colorado Vaccine Equity Taskforce's Denver Health Covid-19 Vaccine Appointment Videos in 10 Different Languages. June 15, 2021.
2. Immunize Colorado's 2021 Dr. Ibrahim Somali Covid-19 Education Event Recording. May 13, 2021.
3. Health Resources & Services Administration's Fact Sheets for Uninsured Individuals and COVID Aid. April 16, 2021. Factsheets available for patients and providers in English and in Spanish.
4. National Immigration Law Center's Answers to Common Questions about Immigrants' Access to the COVID-19 Vaccines. April 12, 2021.
5. Denver Health's Patient Vaccine Information in Multiple Languages. Last updated March 2, 2021. Flyer includes brief vaccine information, the phone number for Denver Health's COVID Vaccination Registration Line, and a QR code for registering online. Flyers available in English, Amharic, Arabic, Burmese, French, Nepali, Russian, Somali.
6. New American Neighbor's COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy Videos. March 4, 2021. Informational videos available in Amharic, Arabic, Burmese, Dari, French, Karen, Nepali, Pashto, Somali, Spanish, and Tigrinya.
7. National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants, and Migrants Website. January 22, 2021. Covid-19 Translated Materials, Covid-19 Vaccine Toolkits, and on-demand trainings.
8. CDC's Facts About the Covid-19 Vaccine Plain Language Factsheet. January 7, 2021.
Available in Arabic, Spanish, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Tagalog, Traditional Chinese, and Vietnamese.
Available in Arabic, Spanish, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Tagalog, Traditional Chinese, and Vietnamese.
9. Immunize Colorado, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, AAP Colorado.
Maintaining Immunizations During COVID-19: Resources for Parents in 12 Languages. 2020.
Maintaining Immunizations During COVID-19: Resources for Parents in 12 Languages. 2020.
10. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. COVID-19 Communications Toolkit for Migrants,
Refugees and Other Limited-English-Proficient Populations.
Refugees and Other Limited-English-Proficient Populations.
Additional Resources
1. Colorado Refugee and Immigrant Immunization Task Force. Refugee and Immigrant School Health Immunization Training. 2019.
In 2018, the Task Force identified a need to support schools in vaccinating refugee and immigrant students and delivered a survey to school health personnel to learn more about the challenges school nurses and health staff face in ensuring immigrant and refugee students meet school vaccine requirements, as well as current practices and/or needs for enhanced support, education and/or resources to address these obstacles. In response, the Task Force developed this 20-minute, on-demand training to support school nurses and other school health personnel in ensuring refugee and immigrant students are up to date on school-required vaccinations. 2. Janine Young. Pediatric Immigrant and Refugee Health: Medical Issues and Vaccine Preventable Disease. 2015. Presentation
3. CHOP PolicyLab Webinar: Refugee Health Care in the United States. 2018
PolicyLab researcher Katherine Yun, MD, MHS, and Minnesota Department of Health's Refugee Health Coordinator Blain Mamo, MPH examine common models of refugee health care and how we can use tools to standardize care for all refugees. |
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4. Colorado Department of Human Services, Refugee Services. The Refugee Integration Survey and Evaluation (RISE) Year Five: Final Report: A study of refugee integration in Colorado. 2016.
Researchers surveyed refugees yearly (baseline + 3 additional years). This five year report is the culmination of the RISE project, which in 2014-2015 administered 327 surveys to Bhutan/ Burmese refugees with the aims to evaluate ten different survey measures: 1. Employment & Economic Sufficiency 6. Social Bonding
2. Education & Training 7. Social Bridging 3. Children’s Education 8. Language & Cultural Knowledge 4. Health & Physical Well‐Being 9. Safety & Stability 5. Housing 10. Civic Engagement |
5. Christopher Czaja, Penny Grande, John Douglas, & the Refugee Health Work Group. Assessment of the Health Needs of Refugees in the Tri-County Region. Tri-County Health Department. 2015.
Identified ten key issues:
6. WithinReach / Hepatitis B Coalition of Washington. E-Course: Hepatitis B Health Disparities in Refugee and Immigrant Communities.
This course will give health professionals who work with immigrant and refugee patients the tools to ensure they are screened and effectively treated for hepatitis B. 7. Colorado Department of Human Services, Refugee Services Program. An Overview of Refugee Resettlement. 2020
Includes an overview of the refugees, the clearance process, the refugee resettlement process in the US and Colorado, as well as refugee medical health screenings. 8. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. News Update: Measles Education Materials in Ukrainian.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a News Update regarging the recent translation of two mesales education materials into Ukranian. 9. Hepatitis B Foundation. Hepatitis B Education Materials for African Communities. February 2021.
Includes presentations for Community Health Workers, Flipcharts for Community Health Education, Factsheets and Printable Education, as well as Youtube Story Narratives from Nigerian and Ghanaian Immigrants. |
QUICK RESOURCE GUIDESBelow are quick-reference documents
Colorado Refugee Service Plan Overview Info-Graphic 2018 (Colorado Department of Human Services)
Society of Refugee Health ProvidersA group of medical providers, nurses, social workers, researchers, coordinators and other professionals that provide services for newly-arriving refugees. Membership includes access to a listserv which includes CDC updates and vaccine-related info from overseas sites.
Centers for Disease
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Last Updated on February 16, 2021
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