Information from the Caring Across Communities and Fresh Ideas Grantee Meeting, April 21–23, 2009

Caring Across Communities grantee presentations

Children's Crisis Treatment Center - West African Refugee Assistance Program

Duke University - BieneSTAR: Reducing stigma and increasing access to care

Imperial County Office of Education - Proyecto Puentes

New York University Child Study Center - Bridges Program

Portland Public Schools - Empowerment Across Communities

Santa Cruz Community Counseling Center - Nuestro Futuro

The Village Family Service Center - Employing strategies for community and parent engagement

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - Creating Confianza: Addressing Stigma through Trust and Access

Fresh Ideas grantee presentations

Lincoln Literacy Council – Improving health for low English proficiency patients through health literacy training in Lincoln, Nebraska

Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York City – Health and safety education and services and advocacy training for immigrant restaurant workers in New York City

State of Georgia Department of Human Resources – Implementing a domestic violence intervention program for refugee men in Georgia communities

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops – Identifying communication challenges and gaps in services for Mayans in Florida and developing a toolkit to assist providers

Speaker presentations

Covering Immigrant Children: Where do we stand?
Joan Alker, Deputy Executive Director, Georgetown Center for Children and Families

Reaching Out from Within: Developing Sustainable Community-Based Initiatives
Denise Bates, Assistant Professor, Programs in Public Health, Center for the Study of Youth and Political Violence, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Evaluating with Perspective: Mobilizing Community Participation in Program Evaluation
Denise Bates, Assistant Professor, Programs in Public Health, Center for the Study of Youth and Political Violence, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 

How To Get the Website You Really Want
Mark Marosits, Principal & Tonya Peters, Senior Consultant, Worldways Social Marketing

Basic Immigrant Law
Fred Tsao, Policy Director, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

Third Sector Funding Models - A Business Case for the Complex Non-Profit Social Service Sector
Nicholas Torres, President, Congresso de Latinos Unidos, Inc & Tine Hansen-Turton, CEO, National Nursing Consortium