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Webinar Recording: Identifying and Overcoming Challenges Faced by Refugee Families

Watch this webinar recording from PHI’s Center for Immigrant and Refugee Health to learn about the barriers facing refugees during resettlement and explore practical solutions for supporting providers.

  • Rafiullah Sadiq; Jasmin Kouhkan

In this webinar recording from PHI’s Center for Immigrant and Refugee Health (CIRH), CIRH’s Refugee Health Navigator, Dr. Rafiullah Sadiq, MD, MICHA, joined CIRH’s Refugee Student Wellness Advisor, Jasmin Kouhkan, MSW, to discuss the barriers facing refugees during resettlement and to explore practical solutions for supporting providers.

Viewers will learn about:

  • Main barriers and practical strategies to overcome them
  • How to identify barriers
  • The vicious cycle of barriers
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Main barriers facing refugees during resettlement:

  • language barriers
  • lack of information and misinformation
  • lack of legal documents
  • cultural barriers
  • housing instability
  • education barriers
  • healthcare access and quality
  • mental health challenges
  • time constraints

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