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Worldways Begins New Work For The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation selected Worldways Social Marketing as the agency to create a social marketing campaign for Caring Across Communities, a new program to help immigrant and refugee families throughout the U.S….
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) selected Worldways Social Marketing as the agency to create a social marketing campaign for Caring Across Communities, a new RWJF program to help immigrant and refugee families throughout the U.S. overcome cultural and language barriers to reduce emotional and behavioral problems. Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth, is a three-year, $4.5 million national program that advances RWJF’s efforts to meet the needs of vulnerable families who may not be served by traditional health and social services.
Caring Across Communities places special emphasis on helping schools work with community organizations to reduce the significant cultural and language barriers to quality mental health services that face children of immigrant and refugee families. Immigrant and refugee populations are growing in size in communities across the nation, and their health and social service needs are expanding as well. In 2002, children of immigrants under age 18 totaled 13.5 million in the U.S. In addition, more than half of these children are raised in families with income below 200 percent of the federal poverty level, and they experience daunting economic, education and health challenges. Visit the RWJF website for further information.
