This guide reviews the basics of family violence within refugee and newcomer families, including core concepts for survivor-centered service provision.
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This guide reviews the basics of family violence within refugee and newcomer families, including core concepts for survivor-centered service provision.
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Addressing bullying is a critical component of ensuring a child’s safety and well-being. It is essential to have ongoing discussions with both the child and their caregiver to reinforce awareness, encourage open communication, and provide guidance on how to handle such situations effectively. Below is a structured script designed to facilitate these conversations, helping caseworkers…
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Newcomers face unique risks and vulnerabilities due to their experiences of forced displacement, exposure to potentially traumatic experiences, and the complex stressors of resettlement. Safety planning can be a necessary or helpful intervention to maintain newcomers’ overall safety and wellness. This short guide provides an overview of safety plans and the safety planning process to…
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Service providers play a critical role in identifying, assessing, and managing the risk of suicide. This guide informs service providers about the fundamentals of utilizing safety plans with newcomers experiencing suicidal thinking or risk.  This guide accompanies Switchboard’s editable Suicidal Ideation Safety Plan Template, which can be used when working with clients expressing thoughts about…
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Safety planning is essential when supporting clients at risk of family violence, which is used as an umbrella term for domestic violence and intimate partner violence. This guide will explore the fundamentals of using safety plans with newcomers to help them manage these dangers and stay safe. Switchboard’s editable Family Violence Safety Plan Template accompanies…
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The purpose of this guide is to provide insights and tools for addressing newcomers’ mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) needs. Implementing these MHPSS tools and best practices can help newcomer service providers— including caseworkers, social workers, qualified mental health professionals, and other community-based service providers—deliver effective MHPSS services and foster resilience among the newcomers they…
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While severe mental illness is rare, caseworkers should be knowledgeable about working with individuals facing these issues. This guide will provide foundational information about mental illness and how the resettlement sector can provide culturally responsive, trauma-informed services to support recovery. Please see the companion guide, Supporting Newcomers with Significant Medical Conditions, for more details about…
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Immigrating to the United States is an opportunity to use your international training to either advance in your field or pursue a new career that builds on your education and experience. This guide will help you explore career pathways in and related to th e field of teaching, as well as alternative careers in other…
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This resource, created by Switchboard, provides an overview of mental health challenges faced by Afghan newcomers in the U.S., emphasizing cultural perspectives, stigma, and traditional coping mechanisms.
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Many newcomers who practice Islam adhere to Sharia-compliant finance principles, which emphasize ethical practices and prohibit interest-based transactions. However, finding financial products that align with these principles while ensuring safety and avoiding exploitation can be challenging. This guide equips service providers with essential knowledge on Islamic finance principles, ethical banking alternatives, and strategies to help…
