BRYCS PUBLICATIONS

USCCB/MRS

• Best Interest Determination for Refugee Children: An Annotated Bibliography of Law and Practice
• Care for Trafficked Children
• Children on the Move: The Plight of Immigrant and Refugee Children
• In Support of Refugee Minors: Skills for Caseworkers, training manual and video set
  • View the manual’s table of contents using the above link. The manual is being revised and is not currently available for purchase. To order the video only, please print out and mail or fax this form.)
• Reaching Excellence in Serving Migrating Children: Refugee, Trafficked and Undocumented Children in our Child Welfare Systems
• Seeking Durable Solutions: The 2002 Africa Mission - A report on the USCCB Committee on Migration fact-finding trip to refugee camps in central Africa.  The committee reports on the conditions and prospects faced by refugee children, many of them without any adult family members to care for them.
• Sudanese “Lost Boys” in the United States: Adjustment after Six Months

LIRS and USCCB/MRS

• A Shady Tree : Hope for Vulnerable Refugees in Malaysia and Thailand
• Description of the Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (URM) foster care program
• URM program Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• Unaccompanied Refugee Minor Foster Care Program brochure

LIRS

• Foster Care: A Fact Sheet for Prospective Muslim Families
• Caring for Muslim Minors: Guidelines for Non-Muslim Families
• Working with Refugee and Immigrant Children: Issues of Culture, Law and Development
  • View the table of contents using the above link. For more information, contact Administrative Assistant for Children's Services Nikki Massie, 410/230-2757. To order, send a money order or check for $19.95 with your name and mailing address to Children's Services Unit, LIRS, 700 Light Street, 2nd floor, Baltimore, MD 21230.

Documents from other sources available on this site:

• Background on Potential Health Issues for Hmong Refugees from Wat Tham Krabok.  Office of Global Health Affairs (updated June 17, 2004);
  ALSO SEE... US Embassy Refugee Resettlement Unit bulletins dated 11 February 2005 and 18 February 2005; U.S. State Department press release: Enhanced Medical Screening for Hmong Refugees and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention background documents: TB FAQ sheet and Hmong Lao refugees, Tuberculosis and Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis.  The last three resources are also available as one document here.  More information is also available at the CDC TB Education and Training Resources Web site.
• Background on Potential Health Issues for Liberian Refugees.  Office of Global Health Affairs (updated January 30, 2004)
• Background on Potential Health Problems for Somali Bantu, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
• Biculturalism and Ethnic Identity: an Integrated Model from FOCUS: Notes from the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, June 1984.
• FC? FGC? FGM?: To Those Who Experience It, the Term is Insignificant. The Suffering is Not. from Bridges for Cross-Cultural Understanding, April-May 2002.
• Foster Care, from Azizah Magazine, Spring 2002.
• Multi-Cultural Guidelines for Assessing Family Strengths and Risk Factors in Child Protective Services, P. Pecora and D. English (Eds.) and the [Seattle] Washington Risk Assessment Project. 1993.
• A Nationwide Study of the Functional and Behavioral Health of Sudanese Unaccompanied Refuge Minors Resettled in the United States,
  Project Report Executive Summary. Geltman, P. et al. April 2003.
• Parenting Teens for Cambodians: A Model Curriculum, Julianne Duncan, 1998.
• Reaching First Base: Guidelines on Good Practice on Meeting the Needs of Refugee Children from the Horn of Africa, C. Sherriff (Ed.). Daycare Trust. 1995.
• The School System and Refugee Children: Bridging the Gap
• Somali Bantu Cultural Orientation - Emails from Kenya, from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Kenya staff, 2003-2004.
• Special Immigrant Status Unit, presentation by Cecilia Saco, SCSW, 2005.
• Stop Lead Poisoning in Refugee Children, backgrounder prepared by Church World Service Immigration and Refugee Program and offered as a resource for broad use; it contains links to the CDC and EPA lead fact sheets, as well as the CDC’s Recommendations for Lead poisoning.
• Understanding Children, Immigration, and Family Violence, a collaboration between Learning Systems Group (LSG) and Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF) - BRYCS representatives Julianne Duncan, Lyn Morland and Laura Schmidt participated on this National Workgroup.
• Understanding, Preventing, and Treating Problem Behaviors Among Refugee and Immigrant Youth,  Hunt,Dennis; Morland, Lyn; Barocas, Ralph; Huckans, Marilyn;  Caal, Selma; Center for Multicultural Human Services, 2002.
• The U.S. Kosovar Refugee Program: Operation Provide Refuge, from ESL Magazine, July 1999.