A Comprehensive Guide for Physicians and Health Care Professionals
This toolkit is written to support clinicians caring for children and adolescents who are newly-arrived immigrants and was developed by members of the District of Columbia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The purpose of the toolkit is to support the direct clinical care of the child and to identify community resources for families in the DMV region (Washington DC, southern Maryland, and northern Virginia).
The resources listed in this toolkit were last verified and updated May 2023.
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