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
The Oregon Health Authority and Intercultural Solutions consulting developed a guide to aid home visitors and supervisors in culturally and linguistically responsive practice, offering reflective tools, inquiry questions, and supervisor guidance to better understand and support families within their cultural contexts.
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.
Reading books with young children helps support the parent-child relationship and aids in children’s development of cognitive, social-emotional, and language skills in the process! In multilingual families, children’s books in multiple languages helps parents and children connect over shared themes and helps children develop skills in both languages! The following websites have many high-quality children’s books, available in common newcomer languages.
Resource: Books by the Bushel
Resource: Language Lizard
Resource: Kid Kiddos Books
Resource: Multilingual Books
Resource: Books4School
Switchboard developed this guide to provide trauma-informed, cross-cultural strategies that support newcomer mothers during an adolescent pregnancy. This guide integrates developmental, cultural, and situational factors to promote strength-based strategies for providers to support expectant and parenting newcomer teens.
The Refugee Systems of Care project developed this script to provide ready-to-use language for home visitors to make introduction, explain the purpose of the visit, support accurate language interpretation, build rapport with interpreters, and debrief after visits to improve communication.
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.
