Program Overview
NACCHO represents almost 3,000 LHDs in the US, striving to protect and enhance community health. Its RIM program focuses on providing support and technical assistance to LHDs and CBOs, fostering and strengthening sustainable partnerships with RIM communities within their jurisdictions. The RIM team supplies culturally appropriate health communication and education resources and trains public health professionals to effectively assist LHDs in reaching RIM communities. Our current portfolio focuses on the following key issues impacting RIM communities in the US:
COVID-19 Sustainability
Refugee, immigrant, and migrant (RIM) populations in the US, have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 due to language and cultural barriers, occupational hazards, and structural racism and xenophobia. To ensure the success of COVID-19 prevention and mitigation strategies and to address inequities in COVID-19 morbidity and mortality experienced by RIM communities, NACCHO’s RIM works to provide funding to LHDs and CBOs to strengthen partnerships with RIM communities in their jurisdictions and to collaboratively design, implement, and evaluate innovative and sustainable approaches to prevention of COVID 19 and other vaccine preventable diseases.
Afghan Health
The Afghanistan humanitarian crisis has led to a large influx of Afghan refugees, who require culturally appropriate health communication resources as well as culturally competent mental health services. NACCHOs RIM works with LHDs and CBOs in jurisdictions with large Afghan resettlement to effectively build their capacity and to collaborate with Afghan refugee, immigrant, and migrant communities and community-based organizations for improved Afghan community public health.
Want to make an Impact? Join Our Advisory Board!
NACCHO’s Refugee, Immigrant, and Migrant (RIM) Program is actively recruiting new members for our External Advisory Board. The Refugee, Immigrant, and Migrant communities’ Advisory Board works to guide the work of NACCHO’s RIM portfolio to ensure NACCHO’s RIM activities are appropriately targeted towards the current needs of local health departments and community-based organization and their RIM programs. As an Advisory Board member, you will participate in peer sharing and discussion of current issues affecting RIM communities and help us in capturing local input on issues affecting RIM populations across the country.
By participating in the Advisory Board, members will:
- Connect with peers and other subject matter experts working in the field of RIM health and with RIM communities
- Gain exposure to innovative programmatic work at NACCHO and in other LHDs and CBOs across the country
- Assist in the development of activities to improve understanding of RIM- related issues
- Identify and share topic –specific refugee, immigrant, and migrant health resources at the national, state, and local levels
- Promote best practices for RIM communities by educating Advisory Board members and reviewing NACCHO’s RIM resources
The Advisory Board is currently accepting and onboarding new members on an ongoing basis. Please share the information above with your networks and thank you for helping us spread the word about this exciting opportunity. We look forward to welcoming new members to our Advisory Board, please contact us at [email protected] if interested or for any questions or if you need more information.
