Refugee Crisis Presentation Plan

Maddie Harrison
Overview:
Topic: Refugee Crisis, Resettlement, and Basic Needs
Setting: Classroom
Length: 50 minutes
Audience: Global Frontier Missions short term team (about 15 high school students and
15 adults)

Objectives:
 Cognitive Objectives
1. Participants will be able to define the three categories of forcibly displaced
people when asked to do so by the instructor.
2. Participants will be able to brainstorm three- four ways to effectively
engage with the refugee population in a small group discussion.
 Affective Objectives
1. Participants will demonstrate an understanding attitude towards the
refugee population while completing the Gibberish worksheet activity.
2. Participants will express their personal experiences related to refugees and
the refugee crisis during small group discussion.
 Psychomotor Objectives
1. Participants will be able to demonstrate proactive brainstorming skills in
small group discussion when coming up with ways to become involved
with the refugee community
2. Participants will know how to effectively take steps towards helping the
refugee population in a class discussion.

Introduction (Slide 1 and 2)

 How many of you are familiar with the term refugee?
 What do you think of when you hear this word?
 What does it mean to be a refugee?
*See Instructional Activities Section for notes on this portion

Outline of Content (Instructor Notes)

 Definition of an internally displaced person according to the UN Refugee
Agency (Slide 3)
o “An internally displaced person, or IDP, is someone who has been forced
to flee their home but never cross an international border.”
o Seek refugee in various locations within their own country: towns,
settlements, schools, camps, and forests/ fields
o Largest populations with IDPS: Columbia, Syria, Democratic Republic of
the Congo, and Somalia
 Definition of an asylum seeker according to the UN Refugee Agency (Slide 4)
o “When people flee their own country and seek sanctuary in another
country, they apply for asylum”
o Travel to another country on their own terms
 o Seek to receive legal protection and material assistance from new country
 Definition of a refugee according to the UN Refugee Agency (Slide 5)
o “A refugee is someone who has been forced to flee his or her country
because of persecution, war or violence.”
o “ A refugee has a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race,
religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social
group. Most likely, they cannot return home or are afraid to do so.”
o “War and ethnic, tribal and religious violence are leading causes of
refugees fleeing their countries.”
o 2/3 of the worlds refugees come from these countries: Syria, Afghanistan,
South Sudan, Myanmar, and Somalia
 Images of refugees and refugee camps (Slide 6)
o Refugees live in close quarters and many reside in tents as seen in this
image
o Typically long lines and poor living situations
o Many refugees live in a camp for multiple years before they are able to be
resettled
*See Instructional Activities Part 3 for assistance with this slide
 Forcibly Displaced People (Slide 7)
o Currently around 68.5 million forcibly displaced people in the world
o IDP’s are largest group with 40 million
o Refugees are around 25.4 million
o Asylum Seekers are about 3.1 million worldwide
 Who gets “refugee status”? (Slide 8)
o Potential refugees must first register with the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the country they have fled to
o Then the UNHCR will make the final decision as a to whether one
qualifies for refugee status and if so, what protection the refugees can
receive
o Three options exist once on qualifies for refugee status: safe return to the
home country, local integration, and third-country resettlement
o How many refugees actually get resettled?
(*Allow time for participant response)
 Number of Resettled Refugees (Slide 9)
o 1% are actually resettled in a third- country like the United States and the
other 99% either return to their country or integrate into the new country
they have fled to.
o Many are denied access into resettlement countries
 Becoming a refugee in the United States (Slide 10)
o US is one of 28 resettlement countries
o 1980 the refugee program was established in the states
o Once the UNHCR has given someone refugee status, the refugee is
“handed off” to a resettlement country
o In the US, the refugees go through a very extensive vetting process in
which the government will consider whether or not the refugee will be
 accepted and resettled in the US (*Image contains government agencies
involved in the vetting process)
o The president determines the refugee admission cap for each fiscal year
 2016: cap was 85,000
 2017: cap was 54,000
 2018: cap is 45,00 (Only 2 months left in this 2018 fiscal year and
only 17,000 have been allowed into the country)
 Where do most refugees in the US come from? (Slide 11)
 60 countries worldwide
 *Review chart with the top 10 countries sending refugees for
resettlement
 Where do most resettled refugees live? (Slide 12)
 *Review slide and point out the largest states with refugees
 Ask the participants which state they reside in and allow special
focus on those locations
 What happens when refugees arrive? (Slide 13)
 Prior to leaving:
 Refugees sign and agree to pay the US government back
for travel cost
 Refugees attend a class about the US culture, law, and
health system
 US government works with nine governmental resettlement
agencies
 Placement:
 Refugees have little say as to where they will be placed
when arriving in the US
 Agencies will take into account areas with established
cultural communities, family or friends, and cost of living.
health access, and education
 Refugees have the ability to move anywhere in the states as a
permanent resident, but they will lose the help of a resettlement
agency if they move in the first three months of arrival
 Upon arrival:
 Refugees typically greeted by workers from resettlement
agency at airport
 Agencies find and provide affordable living along with
basic needs such as furniture and food
 Resettlement agencies work with refugees for first 90 days:
o Job
o Healthcare
o Schooling
o ESL
 Green card to become permanent resident after 1 year and can
apply for citizenship after 5 years
 Resettlement Agencies in America (Slide 14)
*Make note that the purple bullet points are agencies in the Atlanta area
  Church World Service
 Ethiopian Community Development Council
 Episcopal Migration Ministries
 Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
 International Rescue Committee
 Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
 U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
 US conference of Catholic Bishops/ Migration and Refugee
Services
 World Relief
 Clarkston, Georgia (Slide 15)
 Population: over 12,000 people
 “Most diverse square mile in the United States” – NY Times
Magazine
 Diversity:
 58.5% black
 24.9% Asian
 8.92% white
 50.5% speak non-english language
 Foreign born persons: 46.5%
 Who is in Clarkston?(Slide 16)
 This slide indicates all of the ethnicities represented in Clarkston
(with some not mentioned here)
 The bolded words are the most populated countries represented in
Clarkston
 Burmese
 Bhutanese
 Eritrean
 Ethiopian
 Clarkston (Slide 17)
*Note the distinction of these statistics and how important it is for
refugees to receive care
 Basic Stats
 Median household income: $33, 486
 35.9% of population lives under the poverty line compared
with 14% nationally
 No health insurance-33.6%
 Homeownership rate: 14.2% own home
 1 car per home
 Health Care
 106 primary care physicians to every 100,000 people
 247 mental health professionals for every 100,000
 83 other providers for every 100,000
 Education
 HS diploma-67.3%
  Bachelors-19.1%
 Health Conditions
 HIV- 1316 per 100,000 (collection year 2013)
 Diabetes- 10% (2013)
 Obesity- 27.3% (2013)
 Adult smoking prevalence:16.1% (2015)
 Excessive drinking: 16.3% (2015)
 Homicide death per 100,000- 11.5 (2009-2015)
 Violent crime per 100,000- 628.2 (2012-2104)
 What happens next? (Slide 18)
 All of these categories are ones that resettlement agencies help the
refugees with for the first 90 days
 Medical attention
o Learning the system
o Transportation to and from
o Health insurance
o Nutrition and Diet
 English Learning
o Necessary to communicate
o ESL
 Trauma and mental health
o Counseling
o Emotional burdens
 Education
o Children
o College
o Supplies
 Work (this is the greatest priority for resettlement agencies
to help refugee families with)
o Essential to have income
o On their own after 90 days
o Interview prep
o Job applications
o Resume building
 When the 90 days are over, refugees are left to figure these things
out on their own and need help from others to be able to navigate
these things
 All aspects of refugee health in some way
 How can we help this population? (Slide 19) *See Instructional Activities Part 7
Instructional Activities
*Many participants may have questions regarding this information about refugee
resettlement, so allow for some flexibility time to answer any questions. This may require
removing one or more activities from the lesson to increase discussion time.

1. Power Point Slides 1 &2/ Introduction Partner and Class Discussion

[5 minutes]
a. Ask the questions listed in the introduction section of the lesson
plan
b. Instruct participants to turn to the person(s) next to them and
discuss their thoughts on the definitions of a refugee/ internally
displaced person/ and asylum seeker
c. Allow time for discussion at the end for a few people to share the
definitions they came up with
2. Power Point Slides 3-7/Lecture Information [5 minutes]
*Use instructor notes for information regarding slides
a. An internally displaced person
b. An asylum seeker
c. A refugee
d. Refugee Camp pictures
e. Forcibly Displaced People Graphic
3. Power Point Slides 8 & 9/ Discussion Question [3 minutes]
*Use instructor notes for information regarding slides
a. Who gets “refugee status?”
b. How many refugees actually get resettled?
i. Instructor ask this question and allow participants time to
guess
ii. Slide 9 shows graphic with answer
iii. Allow participants time to respond with any thoughts or
questions
4. PowerPoint Slides 10-14/ Lecture Information [5 minutes]
*Use instructor notes for information regarding slides
a. Becoming a refugee in the US
b. Where do most refugees in the US come from?
c. Where do most resettled refugees live?
d. What happens when refugees arrive?
e. Resettling Agencies in America
5. Gibberish Worksheet [7 minutes]
a. Give every participant a Gibberish worksheet and ask him or her to
fill it out as best as they are able.
b. Do not provide any other guidance after they are given the
worksheet
c. Allow time for participant feedback in class discussion after they
try to complete the worksheet
d. Some guided discussion questions:
 i. How did that make you feel to not know any of the words
or directions?
ii. How might this be similar to what refugees experience in
the states?
iii. Has your perspective changed towards the refugee process
in any way?
6. Power Point Slides 15-19/ Lecture Information [7-10 minutes]
a. Clarkston, Georgia
b. Who is in Clarkston?
c. Basic Statistics of Clarkston
d. What happens next?
e. How can we help this population?
7. Small Group Brainstorming and Discussion [15 minutes]
a. Divide participants into groups of four or five
b. Give each group a large notecard
c. Have each small group discuss various ways in which they can get
involved with refugee health navigation and promotion/ help of
other basic needs. (Use slide 19 as resource for guiding some
discussion if needed)
d. Each group will write down thoughts and ideas on their notecard
e. Allow time for big class discussion at the end so groups can
express their thoughts with the class
Materials Needed

1. Access to computer/ projector to utilize PowerPoint presentation

2. Note Cards (1 Pack)
3. Gibberish worksheet (about 30/ enough for class) *See Attachments
4. Writing Utensils (Pen/ Pencil)
Attachments: (Instructional Activity 5)
Works Cited

Amnesty International UK (2017). Resources. Retrieved from

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/lesson-refugees-and-asylum

DataUSA (2018). DeKalb County, GA & Clarkston, GA. Retrieved from

https://datausa.io/profile/geo/dekalb-county-ga/?compare=clarkston-ga

Department of Commerce (2018). QuickFacts: Clarkston, Georgia. United States Census

Bureau. Retrieved from

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/clarkstoncitygeorgia/PST120217

International Rescue Committee (2018). Refugees in America. International Rescue

Committee. Retrieved from https://www.rescue.org/topic/refugees-america

USA for UNHCR (2018). What is a refugee? UNHCR. Website Retrieved from

https://www.unrefugees.org/refugee-facts/what-is-a-refugee/

U.S. Department of State (2018). Refugee Admissions. State.gov. Retrieved from

https://www.state.gov/j/prm/ra/