Millions of children worldwide have fled violent conflict to relocate to safer places like the United States. Studies show that refugee kids in this country experience high levels of anxiety, ...
Four million refugee children do not attend school, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, says in a report released today. This is an increase of half a million of out-of-school refugee children in just one ...
For decades, refugees have been fully vetted before even stepping foot in the United States. Refugee status is a legal status ...
On the outskirts of the Ugandan town of Biale, tents are scattered along dirt roads that give way to open fields. The ...
A facility in New York that housed migrant children faces allegations of physical abuse, including placing some children in ...
Khrystyna Khachaturova, a psychologist and refugee from Ukraine, now lives and works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She focuses ...
PRETORIA, South Africa, 5 March (UNHCR) - Life for any refugee can be difficult; life for a child refugee is doubly difficult. As one young refugee told the UN refugee agency: "We are always living in ...
Most Sunday afternoons, the sounds of children laughing, chatting and running around ricochet off the walls of the Peabody School’s gymnasium. The kids aren’t students there, but rather participants ...
STUDIES SHOW THAT CHILDREN WHO ATTEND PRESCHOOL OR EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS PERFORM BETTER IN SCHOOL DURING THEIR LATER YEARS, AND THAT’S WHY A GROUP OF VOLUNTEERS IS GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND TO MAKE ...
Telephone therapy delivered to refugee children results in a significant drop in mental health symptoms and a far higher completion rate of treatment compared with in-person therapy, according to a ...
Escaping from brutal conditions in some nations of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, the world's r efugee children need specific kinds of support. While they are diverse in terms of their ...
Anesa Kajtazovic came to Iowa as a 10-year-old refugee from the Bosnian War. She served two terms in the Iowa Legislature and recently published her first children’s book, "Anesa, No Škola Today." ...