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'Happier families, happier students': How Denver's community hubs are helping migrants

Melanie Asmar

March 11, 2024 |

Chalkbeat Colorado |

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Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

Denver Public Schools’ Community Hubs provide wide-ranging support for students and their families, from language classes and GED programs for parents learning English to food pantries, financial education courses, and mobile medical appointments. The hubs have served more than 4,000 families since launching in 2022, with roughly 600 migrant families being served this year.

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Enrollment in tribal language courses grows in Oklahoma as tribes aim to increase fluency

Nuria Martinez-Keel

March 11, 2024 |

Oklahoma Voice |

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Response Location: United States, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

In an effort to increase language fluency and preserve the Indigenous culture, public schools in Oklahoma are offering Indigenous language programs to teach a variety of languages, like Cherokee and Choctaw, to interested students. In the 2022-2023 school year, 3,314 students from elementary through high school participated in an Indigenous language program.

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Funding to help Spanish-speaking child care providers get licensed in Colorado set to end

Yesenia Robles

January 25, 2024 |

Chalkbeat Colorado |

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Response Location: United States, Colorado

The Colorado Department of Early Childhood’s bilingual support team helps guide Spanish-speaking residents through the process of applying for a child care license, providing resources and training materials in applicants’ native language. The team is currently working with 69 professionals who are already licensed as well as 25 Spanish speakers in the midst of the application process.

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St. Paul school district halts enrollment slide. The secret: listening to immigrant communities.

Becky Z. Dernbach

January 23, 2024 |

Sahan Journal |

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Response Location: United States, St. Paul, Minnesota

To address enrollment decline in St. Paul Public Schools, the district invested in language and cultural programs that cater to local immigrant communities. After four years of implementing Hmong, Spanish, Mandarin, and East African language and cultural programs, student enrollment is now rising.

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Doctors from Mexico help meet the need of some patients in the Central Valley

María G. Ortiz-Briones

October 09, 2023 |

The Fresno Bee |

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Response Location: United States, Tehama County, California

Mexico's Pilot Program for Licensed Physicians brings Mexican doctors to the states to address the lack of culturally relevant healthcare and Spanish-speaking healthcare providers, particularly in rural areas with large immigrant populations. Currently, the program has 30 Mexican doctors working in various counties throughout the state.

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In California, doctors from Mexico help fill the need for some patients. ‘As good as any doctor.'

Esther Quintanilla

September 28, 2023 |

Valley Public Radio |

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Response Location: United States, Tulare, California

The Licensed Physicians from Mexico Pilot Program allows Mexican doctors and dentists to work in non-profit clinics across the state on a three-year work visa to help address both the shortage of doctors in the area and the lack of culturally relevant care from Spanish-speaking providers. Currently, there are more than 30 Mexican doctors working across several counties and there are plans to expand the program to more counties and to include providers who speak Mexican indigenous languages like Mixtec.

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How Cambodian Americans Heal the Cycle of Intergenerational Trauma

Soreath Hok

September 15, 2023 |

KQED |

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Response Location: United States, Fresno, California

The Fresno Center provides immigration services and culturally relevant mental health care to members of the Southeast Asian community. The Center provides therapy in native languages and works to destigmitize mental health in an effort to heal decades of generational trauma.

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This Manhattan adult learning center is seeing a surge in African asylum seekers

Churchill Ndonwie

August 25, 2023 |

Chalkbeat |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

As an increasing number of asylum seekers arrive in New York, the Mid-Manhattan Adult Learning Center has expanded its services beyond English language classes to connect students with food aid, help them get official identification, and put them in contact with legal immigration services. The center’s enrollment increased by roughly 40 percent to 3,700 students this year, but it needs more funding and support to keep up with demand.

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La Importancia De Una Atención De Salud Mental Sensible a las Diferencias Culturales

Natasha Robinson

July 20, 2023 |

NEW/NUEVA OPINION |

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Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

El Concilio, una organización sin ánimo de lucro con sede en Kalamazoo, Michigan, apoya terapeutas latinas, hispanohablantes y anglófonas que ofrecen una atención cultural y lingüísticamente apropiada para la población hispanohablante. El Concilio trabaja con otras organizaciones para encontrar comunidates y personas quien necesitan ayuda.

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In Minneapolis, three-fourths of kids with elevated levels of lead are children of color. These workers are trying to do something about that.

Sheila Mulrooney Eldred

June 13, 2023 |

Sahan Journal |

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Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

The Minneapolis City Health Department Health Homes team does community outreach in the neighborhoods with the highest elevated lead levels. Team members visit homes to inform parents about the dangers of lead, direct them to helpful resources, and test kids’ lead levels to help prevent long-term effects. If a house is deemed at risk of lead exposure, the team will inspect it and provide recommendations on how to eliminate the risk.

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