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Caring Across Communities Collaborative

Caring Across Communities Collaborative. Empowerment Across Communities. Lead Agency: Multilingual and Multicultural Center Portland Public Schools. Portland, Maine. Community Providers of Mental Health. Refugee Resettlement.

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Caring Across Communities Collaborative

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  1. Caring Across Communities Collaborative Empowerment Across Communities Lead Agency: Multilingual and Multicultural Center Portland Public Schools Portland,Maine

  2. Community Providers of Mental Health Refugee Resettlement Empowerment Across Communities Children and families Public Health Schools and school-based MH providers Other social service providers Portland, Maine

  3. The Overall Goal To design, develop, and implement a mental health service delivery response --from prevention, intervention, and treatment-- for immigrant and refugee children and youth that recognizes the cultural norms and values of their communities.  Empowerment Across Communities Portland, Maine

  4. Caring Across Communities Collaborative Project Goals: Goal #1: To engage the target clients – refugee and immigrant families as well as mental health providers – in gathering essential input that will help inform the design, approach, and methodology of serving the mental health needs of refugee and immigrant children, youth, parents, and other adult members of the family. Goal #2: To strengthen, deepen, and expand understanding of mental health professionals, paraprofessionals, and educational staff about the cultural and historical backgrounds, life experiences, and acculturation of refugees and immigrants so that they are able to integrate services, policies, and practices that are respectful, culturally appropriate, and empowering. Goal #3: To increase the utilization and retention of refugee and immigrant children, youth, and their families in need of mental health services by building culturally responsive capacity and sustainable structures among mental health provider organizations and the school district. Empowerment Across Communities Portland, Maine

  5. Who we serve Community Service Providers Empowerment Across Communities School-based Staff Refugee/Immigrant Children and Youth and Their Families Portland, Maine

  6. The Partners • Formal Partners • Advisory Partners • Supporters and Allies Empowerment Across Communities Portland, Maine

  7. Programs Approach to Empowerment Culturally Responsive Trauma-Informed Program and Activities Partnerships Meaningful Community Partnerships Process CAC Collaborative Steering Committee Introspective Consultative Intercultural

  8. Community Engagement Strategies Hire bicultural/bilingual staff as consultants and cultural brokers. Understand and appreciate the internal dynamics of communities. Honor and build on community interests, priorities, and assets. Support and visibility in community planned events including festivals. Leverage existing institutional relationships Empowerment Across Communities Portland, Maine

  9. Critical Elements to Successful Partnership Shared vision and goals. Clearly defined roles and process for decision making. Structure for communication, planning, and evaluation. Introspection, reflection, and learning. Support for each other’s work and invested in each other’s success. Empowerment Across Communities Portland, Maine

  10. Key Learnings to Successful Parent/Community Engagement Fluidity in approach and delivery of services and activities Process more important than outcomes Tolerance for ambiguity One’s culture as a default mode Importance of consultation and debrief processes involving leaders of target communities Empowerment Across Communities Portland, Maine

  11. Challenges Penetrate and extend influence in established ‘turfdoms’. Political climate regarding immigration policies and perception of immigrants and refugees as a drain on the system. Language accessibility. Need for funders to collaborate and pull their resources together. Project sustainability. Empowerment Across Communities Portland, Maine

  12. Successes Caseload of refugee and immigrant students among school-based social workers have more than doubled. Increase in knowledge and understanding of the target linguistic groups among school staff and community-based providers. Some funding received to expand and extend the goals of the project. Strong and meaningful collaboration. Empowerment Across Communities Portland, Maine

  13. Community Providers of Mental Health Refugee Resettlement Empowerment Across Communities Children and families Public Health Schools and school-based MH providers Other social service providers Portland, Maine

  14. Outcomes: • Mental health professionals will provide services to immigrant and refugee students and their families that incorporate respect, cultural sensitivity, and cultural empowerment as measured by the outcome of training program and feedback from consumers. • 2. Access to mental health service for immigrant and refugee students will be increased as evidenced by the increased number of students seeking help and the increased retention of students in care. Empowerment Across Communities Portland, Maine

  15. Caring Across Communities Collaborative Empowerment Across Communities Portland, Maine

  16. Approach to Empowerment Parents and Community Members Formal/Informal CommunityLeaders CAC Collaborative Steering Committee Bicultural Staff

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