Welcome to Refugee Health - Vancouver

Refugee Health Vancouver is a practical resource to support clinicians who provide care to refugees in British Columbia.

Need a patient handout on diabetes in Farsi? Looking for a Spanish-speaking dentist in Vancouver who offers reduced fees? Not sure what convention refugees are, why they would flee Myanmar, or how you can bill to care for them? This site pulls together the answers for you.

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Medical Guidelines

Mental Health Further Reading

Websites

  • Centre for Refugee Studies | York University
    A community of researchers dedicated to the well-being of people displaced by violence, persecution, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation, the Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) is responding through innovative research, education and policy engagement. 
  • Trauma and Global Health Program | McGill University
    A global health research initiative that stems from a partnership between the Douglas Institute - McGill University and research teams based in Guatemala, Nepal, Peru and Sri Lanka. Its purpose is to improve the mental health of civilians exposed to political violence and/or natural disasters, to foster psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery and to generate improved mental health policies and services in the participating countries. 
  • Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture 
    A non-profit, founded by several Toronto doctors, lawyers and social service professionals, many of whom were associated with Amnesty International.  
  • The Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT)
    A multi-disciplinary program that has, over two decades, been pioneering the health and mental health care of refugees and civilians in areas of conflict/post-conflict and natural disasters. HPRT’s model, which focuses on the identification and treatment of extreme trauma (natural and human-made) through local indigenous healing systems, primary care, and community organizations, has been replicated throughout the world. 
  • The National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs (NCTTP)
    A U.S. based network of programs whose purpose is to advance the knowledge, technical capacities and resources devoted to the care of torture survivors living in the United States and acts collectively to prevent torture worldwide. 
  • The Center for Victims of Torture 
    A torture rehabilitation center in America's midwest whose healing, training, research and advocacy initiatives have global impact. They provide healing to torture survivors in Minnesota, Africa and the Middle East and train partners across the United States and in every region of the world.
  • LGBT Refugees Mental Health and Access to Healthcare
  • Mental Health Challenges for LGBT Asylum Seekers in Canada 
    Information sheet intended to be a resource for service providers who work with LGBT asylum seekers 

Presentations

Tools

  • The Refugee Mental Health Toolkit by CAMH
     

Original list above compiled by Mariana Martinez Vieyra - Provincial Mental Health Coordinator. 
Expanded by Martina Scholtens MD CCFP.

 

BC Refugee Readiness Fund is part of the WelcomeBC 
umbrella of services, made possible through funding 
from the Province of British Columbia.

Submitted by martina on March 30, 2016
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