Welcome to COR Center’s Web site

The Cultural Orientation Resource Center provides technical assistance regarding new refugee groups and the orientation they receive either before their resettlement in the United States or after their arrival.

New! Refugee Groups: Resource packages regarding refugees from Bhutan, Burma, Darfur (Sudan), and Iraq, refugee seniors, and refugee youth, as well as publications on other refugee populations

New! Videos section: group-specific videos of interviews with resettled refugees from Bhutan, Burma, and the Darfur region of Sudan, as well as with refugee seniors

New! Map and brief descriptions of overseas CO programs: location, populations, duration, and emphases of overseas orientation

Frequently Asked Questions regarding overseas and domestic orientation

Click for a guide to the site.

COR Center Resource Packages

New! Bhutanese Refugees
New! Refugees from Burma
New! Darfuri Refugees
New! Refugee Youth
Updated! Refugee Seniors
Updated! Refugees from Iraq

Selected Training Resources

Domestic Service Providers Toolkit
Tools for CO Trainers
Staff Training

Presentations from Overseas CO Coordinators

CWS/OPE Nairobi ICMC Turkey
IOM Middle East IRC East AsiaHIAS Vienna
IOM Moscow IOM Nepal

Refugee Youth

On Their Way Orientation curriculum for Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (also appropriate for general youth CO)
Refugee Family and Youth videos (and CAL's companion guide, Connecting Diverse Cultures)

Recent Refugee Backgrounders

Darfuri Refugees: Backgrounds and Resettlement Needs
Eritrean Refugees in Shimelba Refugee Camp

(Sept 2010 in Gore, Chad: Targeted information sessions for refugees scheduled for OPE interviews, conducted by UNHCR, CWS/OPE, & IOM)

Welcome Guidebooks

View or download in English, Amharic, Arabic, Farsi, Karen, Kirundi, Nepali, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, and Tigrigna.