Technical Assistance

Mountain States Group, Boise, Idaho refugee family in their new home.

ISED Solutions researchers have followed and researched the child care for refugees industry since mid- nineties when John Else and Maria Hein (1999) published the study of refugee day care. The PDF of that study is attached.

For PRIME Partners who need business planning tools and templates for their  customers but who do not have the time to develop, you may want to use some already developed and available on line through SCORE.
Please check this link for more information on accessing these tools and templates.
http://www.score.org/template_gallery.html
 

ISED and ORR thank Anna McHugh, an ISED/ORR Intern, for compiling the following document. Anna is pictured above at her home in Montana.
 

Aparna Darispudi from Department of Labor has provided the following links for more DOL information:
 
 

The following story is by PaHoua Xiong, our Hickory, North Carolina RAPP Partner.
 

I met with Mukhtar at the Somali Bantu Community Association of New Hampshire yesterday to discuss program planning and design.  We used a couple of basic tools that I thought others might benefit from.  The first is the “Logic Model”.  A logic model is useful for designing any distinct program in a rational manner, by illustrating (1) activity areas,

I was pleased to develop a tip sheet tutorial for IRC's Project SOAR this week.  The subject of the tutorial is partnering with your local United Way.  You can access the tutorial here in ISED's Resource Center and on Project SOAR's website.  Feel free to contact Project SOAR or ISED for more information.