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Apply Cultural Humility in Cultural Orientation

How to Practice Cultural Humility, Awareness, and Competency Practicing cultural humility, awareness, and competency can sound time-consuming, especially when managing multiple priorities. However, applying these concepts to cultural orientation planning and delivery can help increase participant engagement, build trust, and enhance the overall effectiveness of cultural orientation delivery and outcomes. Read the following strategies to […]

Promising Practice: Delivering Effective Remote Cultural Orientation

A refugee family working on job applications online. IRC/CBibby

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Deliver Remote Cultural Orientation

Additional Remote Cultural Orientation Tools CORE’s Telephonic Refugee Resettlement Cultural Orientation Guidance and Curriculum: This resource from CORE includes guidance on structuring and delivering telephonic Cultural Orientation by topic and can be adapted for use in other modes of remote Cultural Orientation, such as instructor-led online sessions. It also includes references on incorporating CORE’s translated […]

Create Interactive One-on-One Cultural Orientation

Practice in Action Jewish Family and Community Services in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University to develop a sustainable resource provided in hard copy to all refugees and integrated into Cultural Orientation delivery. The resource is a city passport with localized information to best understand and navigate the community. The International Rescue Committee […]

Including Guests from the Community

A police officer speaking to refugees about community services during a cultural orientation class

Practice in Action At the Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, they use a range of community guests, including representatives from the local community college, the police department, healthcare professionals, and a speaker from Mental Health America, who provides an interactive and engaging presentation on the phases of cultural adjustment. HIAS has various offices […]

Delivering Gender-Segregated Cultural Orientation

Bhutanese refugee women attending a local knitting group at their resettlement center.

Practice in Action Kentucky Refugee Ministries in Louisville provides different Cultural Orientation programs to meet the diverse needs of the refugees they serve. Through a family center, they are able to provide childcare for parents with small children so that all parents can participate in ESL and Cultural Orientation classes. ESL and Cultural Orientation classes […]

Integrate Digital Technology in Cultural Orientation

A Syrian refugee family looks at resources on a cell phone

Practice in Action RSC Eurasia has identified two practical ways to integrate digital technology in Cultural Orientation. Serving learners with strong digital skills, RSC Eurasia offers digital access to the Welcome Guide using a QR code posted in the Cultural Orientation class. This allows learners to download the Welcome Guide during and after Cultural Orientation. […]

Using Volunteers for Cultural Orientation

An IRC community engagement coordinator working at a day center for asylum seeking families

Practice in Action The Cultural Orientation programs at both the North Carolina office of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) and the Boise, Idaho office of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) have benefited from long-term volunteers. For three years, USCRI North Carolina has utilized two volunteers for Cultural Orientation delivery. Originally, the volunteers […]

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