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COR Center Resource Package: Refugee Youth

Refugee Youth

The following COR Center resources are designed to assist with the orientation of refugee youth.

Curriculum

URM curriculum

The PRM-funded COR Center curriculum, On Their Way: An Orientation Curriculum for Unaccompanied Refugee Minors, was developed for use with Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (URMs), but includes nearly 30 lesson plans relevant to general youth orientation, such as educational and cultural differences, identifying role models, rules and discipline, etc.

Materials in this 313-page resource are appropriate for use by overseas and domestic orientation providers. This manual is complemented by Story of Me, an orientation workbook for participants.


Videos

Refugee Youth video

The COR Center has developed two PRM-funded videos (combined on one DVD) to assist refugees and refugee providers in learning about adjustment of refugee families and refugee youth to their new lives in the United States. Topics include family adjustment, discipline, school life, home life, and learning English.

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Refugee Youth video
In addition, youth issues are discussed in each of the COR Center's PRM-funded population-specific videos, available to be watched online:

Bhutanese Refugees in the United States

Refugees from Burma in the United States

Darfuri Refugees in the United States


Lesson Plans

Refugee Youth video

Cultural Adjustment: Romantic Relationships (30 minutes) [Cultural Orientation Resource Center]

Education: After-School Activities (45 minutes) [Cultural Orientation Resource Center]

Education: Helping Children (Grades 6-12) Adjust to School
(two 2-hour sessions) [Created by participants in the US CO Professional Development Workshop in Philadelphia, PA, February 2009]

Education: Setting Educational Goals (25 minutes) [Cultural Orientation Resource Center]

Health: Staying Healthy (30 minutes) [Cultural Orientation Resource Center]

Money Management: U.S. Money (25 minutes) [Cultural Orientation Resource Center]


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