Refugee Health Promotion

• Provide Refugee Health Screenings (RHS-15s) to all new arrivals.

• These screenings identify symptoms of depression, anxiety, and PTSD, the most common mental health conditions in refugees.

• These screenings have to be completed within the first year for all refugees, parolees, or asylum-seekers who are 14 years old or older.

• For those who screen positive on the assessment, free therapy services are offered to them.

 

Community Health Workers

• Community Health Workers are refugee community members who support refugees by connecting them to community resources and enhance acculturation. 

• KY STEPS provides CHW is the Afghan and Congolese communities.  

 

Supporting Transition of Afghans into Resettlement (STAR) Grant

• ​Helps Afghans and their family members who were directly exposed to combat trauma.

• Community health workers who speak Pashto and Dari are available.

• Can provide individual, family, and group therapy.

• Referrals to medical, transportation, education, and housing services for a holistic approach.

 

STEPS-RHP with KOR

• A mental wellness literacy group and cultural orientation group consisting of 10 sessions.

• Topics include: Parenting in the U.S., Domestic Violence / Intimate Partner Violence, substance use, the mind-body connection, acculturation stress, trauma and how it impacts the body, and nutrition.-Those who attend 7/10 sessions will get a $50 gift card.

• Contact the agency for the next class schedule.

 

Trainings and Consultations

• Offered to mental health professionals and others working in the human services industry

• Trauma-Informed care

• Cultural Competence

• Working with Refugees

• Cognitive Based Therapy in Schools (CBITS)

• Mental Health

• Refugee Simulation