Resources for Helping the Children

These web pages and articles are about helping children who are refugees, as well as general child development and wellbeing sites.  If you have any to share, please let me know!

Specifially for Refugees:

Schools Key to Helping Syrian Refugee Children Settle In

Caring For Kids New to Canada: A Guide for Professionals Working With Immigrant and Refugee Children and Youth (focus on Syrian refugees)

Tools for Teaching Refugee Issues Prepared by "Schools Welcome Refugees".

‪Educational Interventions for Refugee Children: Theoretical Perspectives and Implementing Best Practice‬.  (a few pages from the book by By Richard J. Hamilton and Dennis Moore)

Helping immigrant children succeed

Immigrant Children (Volume 21 Number 1 Spring 2011) by The Future of Children

Other:

CMAS: Supporting the care and settlement of young immigrant children.  Excellent information, reports, tip sheets, online learning centre, and a section on supporting Syrian refugee children and their familes.  Funded by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.

Rukhsana Khan: A superb Canadian author and story teller.  Her web site has a plethora of resources!

The Local Immigration Partnership Council Sub-Committee for Renfrew County and Settlement.org

Welcome to Ontario: In my Language  Provides multilingual information for newcomers to Ontario.  Translations have been completed by certified translators.  A resource to share and be aware of.

Learn Some Basic Greetings in Arabic (a Montreal Gazette video)

Web Pages & Online Articles