Dr. Vivian Chávez MSW, a California-based public health professional produced a short film exploring cultural humility through storytelling, music, and interviews, highlighting lifelong learning, power differentials, and accountability to build trust, address inequities, and create more inclusive systems and relationships. Watch this 30-minute video to expand your understanding of Cultural Humility and it’s impact in home visiting.
Resource: Cultural Humility: People, Principles, and Practices
On March 9th, 2026, the Refugee Systems of Care team invited Mary Jayne McCullough to present on the topic of working effectively with interpreters in home visiting. Her training addressed the role and responsibilities of interpreters during home visits, the strengths and limitations of different interpretation modalities, best practices for working with interpreters in home visiting, and opportunities for quality improvement. The recording for this training can be viewed below.
Resource: Working with Interpreters in Home Visiting Training Recording
On March 9th, 2026, the Refugee Systems of Care team invited Mary Jayne McCullough, CEO of Global Wordsmiths, to present on the topic of working effectively with interpreters in home visiting. Her training addressed the role and responsibilities of interpreters during home visits, the strengths and limitations of different interpretation modalities, best practices for working with interpreters in home visiting, and opportunities for quality improvement. The slide deck for this training can be downloaded below.
The Refugee Systems of Care project created this handout to outline common challenges in working with interpreters during home visits. This handout offers practical tips to promote clear communication, interpreter neutrality, and client inclusion before, during, and after visits with newcomer families.
The Refugee Systems of Care project created this handout to explain how trained interpreters support clear, accurate, and unbiased communication during home visits. This handout addresses the role of an interpreter, ethical considerations, and advantages of using a trained interpreter vs untrained helpers or machine translation tools.
The Cultural Orientation Resource Exchange (CORE) developed this Haitian cultural backgrounder to support refugee service workers in providing culturally responsive care to Haitian families who have resettled or migrated to the U.S. This Haitian cultural backgrounder includes information on the history, language, family, social life, and cultural considerations for U.S. cultural integration, among others. Due to the rapid changes in immigration policy, please refer to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigrations Services website for information on legal status changes that may not be reflected in this resource.
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) provides a factsheet on the self-care strategy called Pause, Reset, Nourish that promotes professional wellbeing, concrete self-care actions, and resources for mental health and professional wellbeing. This factsheet is available in both English and Spanish
In this two-part series, Welcoming America explains the meaning of language access and gives you the fundamental tools to distinguish language access tools and work effectively with language access tools to support limited English proficiency families in your program.
The Cultural Orientation Resource Exchange (CORE) developed this Rohingya cultural backgrounder to support refugee service workers in providing culturally responsive care to Rohingya families resettled in the U.S. This Rohingya cultural backgrounder includes information on the history, language, family, social life, and cultural considerations for U.S. cultural integration, among others.
Make substance use screening routine for all families to normalize conversations and provide support. Explore screening practices that identify risk and learn how to pair screening results with referral resources.
Resource: Screening for Substance Use
