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
Home Visiting Model: All Models
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Introduction to Trauma-Informed Care with Newcomers
Switchboard provides a introductory webinar on trauma-informed care that reviews compassion fatigue, self-care techniques for direct service professionals, and the strategies for maintaining healthy professional boundaries.
Resource: Introduction to Trauma-Informed Care with Newcomers
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Introduction to Secondary Traumatic Stress
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NTCSN) provides an introduction to secondary traumatic stress. This online guide addresses who is at risk, prevention and intervention strategies, and strategies to build individual and organizational resiliency.
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The Family Engagement Toolkit: Guidance for Early Childhood Home Visiting Programs on Improving Outreach, Recruitment, and Retention
The goal of the Family Engagement Toolkit is to help home visiting programs strengthen their engagement with families through practical resources. The Family Engagement Toolkit is one component of the Understanding and Expanding the Reach of Home Visiting (HV-REACH) project.
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Switchboard Cultural Backgrounder: Afghanistan
Switchboard adapted a cultural backgrounder on Afghanistan, originally produced by Cultural Orientation Resource Exchange, to support refugee service workers in providing cultural responsive care to Afghan families who have resettled in the U.S. This Afghanistan cultural backgrounder includes information on the historical context, languages, holidays, traditions, and family dynamics, among other topics.
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CORE Cultural Backgrounder: Syria
The Cultural Orientation Resource Exchange (CORE) developed this Syrian cultural backgrounder to support refugee service workers in providing culturally responsive care to Syrian families resettled in the U.S. This Syrian cultural backgrounder includes information on the history, language, family, social life, and cultural considerations for U.S. cultural integration, among others.
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Welcoming America: Language Access Fundamentals
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.
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Switchboard Cultural Backgrounder: Ukrainian
Switchboard created a cultural backgrounder on Ukrainians to support refugee service workers in providing cultural responsive care to Ukrainian families who have resettled in the U.S. This Ukrainian cultural backgrounder includes information on the historical context, languages, holidays, traditions, and family dynamics, among other topics.
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CORE Cultural Backgrounder: Congolese (DRC)
The Cultural Orientation Resource Exchange (CORE) developed this Congolese cultural backgrounder to support refugee service workers in providing culturally responsive care to families resettled in the U.S. from diverse ethnic groups from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This Congolese cultural backgrounder includes information on the history, language, family, social life, and cultural considerations for U.S. cultural integration, among others.
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CORE Cultural Backgrounder: Rohingya (Burma)
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.