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US Resettlement: Domestic Service Provider Toolkit

Rights and Responsibilities

Covers family reunification and adjustment of status regulations, as well as Selective Service requirements, tenants' rights and responsibilities, child protection and domestic violence laws, traffic laws and safety, and other U.S. laws that may clash with refugees' cultural practices or home country laws.

Child Supervision: A Critical Incident (30 minutes) [Cultural Orientation Resource Center]

Changing Gender Roles and Domestic Violence: A Critical Incident (30 minutes) [Cultural Orientation Resource Center]

Making a Five-Year Plan (Two hours) [Created by participants of ORR-funded Community Orientation Skills Development Workshop participants in Fort Wayne, IN, in April 2010]

Rights and Responsibilities Agreements [Created by participants of ORR-funded Community Orientation Skills Development Workshop participants in Fort Wayne, IN, in April 2010]

Chart of Basic Laws in the U.S. [Provided by Ethiopian Community Development Council]

Legal System
[link to a lesson plan in the USCRI 2004 publication, Somali Bantu Community Orientation. Click here for the full publication.]

Click to see related lessons in the Overseas Service Provider Toolkit.

 

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