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Including New Americans in LENDS

Including New Americans in LENDS. Fatuma Bulle, Jeanine Bunzigiye, Maria Avila, Jean Beatson, Steve Contompasis VT LEND November 19, 2013. Overview: this panel will discuss. Recruitment & support of New Americans in LEND. CALC professional development & mentorship

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Including New Americans in LENDS

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  1. Including New Americans in LENDS Fatuma Bulle, Jeanine Bunzigiye, Maria Avila, Jean Beatson, Steve Contompasis VT LEND November 19, 2013

  2. Overview: this panel will discuss • Recruitment & support of New Americans in LEND. • CALC professional development & mentorship • Culturally responsive care & role of the Community Health Worker • Addressing health disparities & systems change

  3. VT LEND Vision • We aim to become racially and ethnically diverse at every level of our LEND program: children, families, trainees, staff & faculty, leadership, advisory council

  4. Promoting Leadership Opportunities Integration at all levels of the program: beginning with trainees, creating a pipeline for faculty/staff & program leadership; and once trust & connection is made to our community, attracting diverse children & youth affected by disabilities and their families

  5. Recruitment & CALC Professional Development • Outreach • Recruitment plan • CALC training for faculty & staff • CALC training for trainees

  6. Culturally Responsive Care: One Mother’s Story • Fatuma Bulle: Family Fellow in VT LEND

  7. One Community Health Worker’s Stories • Jeanine Bunzigiye: Education Fellow in VT LEND

  8. VT-LEND Learning As We Go • CALC in mentorship • Teaching tips • Learning from the trainees

  9. CALC in Mentorship • All trainees motivated to learn how to support and collaborate with ELL • Faculty engaged in ongoing dialogue about teaching practice changes • Offering support & maintaining rigor

  10. Teaching TipsAvoid: • Euphemisms (ex: visit from the stork) • Idioms (ex: easy as pie) • Heavily based reading activities in class • Fast paced exchanges • Metaphors (ex: assignment was a breeze)

  11. Teaching TipsDo: • Speak slowly, repeat things, be clear • Verify that you are understood • Ask multiple times about needs • Accommodate cultural practices • Offer options for how to do things • Check in & seek feedback • Meet 1:1

  12. Learning from the New American Trainees • Realities of refugee experience • Their vision for social justice • Understanding realities of care issues: providers, systems • Commitment to community • Leadership goals

  13. Decreasing Disparities & Systems Change by: • Training a new cadre of racially & ethnically diverse MCH leaders • Explicitly addressing & understanding the connection between racism, disparities & CALC • Advocating for the integration of culturally responsive care into all systems of care and policy.

  14. “We do not see things the way they are, we see things the way WE are” - TALMUD

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