Refugee Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence: Facilitating their Resilience
Part One of this two part series discusses the effects of exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) on refugee children and ways [...]
Reducing Refugee Children’s Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence
This piece discusses the effects of exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) on refugee children and ways to reduce this exposure by [...]
IT’S HERE! Raising Teens in a New Country Handbook!
Raising Teens in a New Country: A Guide for the Whole Family, was created for parents and teens who are new to the [...]
Dating and Relationships
Dating and relationships is often a challenging topic to discuss with newcomers and can be a source of conflict in an immigrant [...]
Fears & Misconceptions Impacting the Cultural Adjustment of Refugee Families
Lasting impressions from a Refugee Healthy Marriage Program From 2007-2011, I oversaw a refugee healthy marriage grant run by my team of [...]
Supporting Refugee Families: Adapting Family Strengthening Programs that Build on Assets
“Children belong to the extended family, society, and friends. Decisions are based on those ties. No one is left behind.”-- Aline, a [...]
I Came All This Way for Them: Refugee Parents in Their Own Words
From 2006 to 2008, BRYCS staff interviewed a dozen refugee parents from nine different countries, asking them to reflect on their parenting [...]
Helping Refugee and Immigrant Families Stay Together
Ellen, a 14-year-old Liberian youth, was reunited with her mother whom she had not seen since the age of three. She moved [...]