This project, funded by the Institute of Community and Society Transformation, utilizes Dr. Ruan's new ESL invention of digital story telling and combines it with Dr. Battacharjee's trauma-informed placemaking in the classroom to assist and support Afghan refugee women in their English language and literacy development.
Project Team: Dr. Jiening Ruan, Dr. Suchi Bhattacharjee, and Dr. Chie Noyori-Corbett
This project, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, investigates the strengths, needs, and challenges libraries face in serving refugees in their communities.
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Project Team: Dr. June Abbas, Dr. Chie Noyori-Corbett, and Dr. Jiening Ruan
This project, funded by the Data Institute for Societal Challenges, investigates the refugee resettlement process toward integration into the community.
This project, funded by the OU Institute of Community and Society Transformation, investigates refugee children's oral language development in the Head Start Program.
Project Team: Dr. June Abbas, Dr. Chie Noyori-Corbett, and Dr. Jiening Ruan
This project seeks to bring long-term self-sufficiency among Myanmar refugee women in Tulsa, Oklahoma by helping them attain the necessary skillsets to identify new economic opportunities. By collaborating with local communities, NGOs, we strive to amplify the voices of Myanmar refugee women, fostering sustainable change that empowers them to shape their own destinies.
Project Team: Dr. Suchi Bhattacharjee , Dr. Qiong Wang, Dr. June Abbas and Dr. Ken Peterson
The Burma Bag Project
The Burma Bag Project, launching in Dallas with a focus on the Burmese refugee community, represents a unique fusion of social entrepreneurship and cultural craftsmanship. Targeted at empowering Burmese women, many of whom are refugees, this initiative offers a path to financial independence through the creation of distinctive, eco-friendly bags crafted from recycled materials like rice bags.
Project Team: Dr. Qiong Wang, Dr. Chie Noyori-Corbett and Dr. Ken Peterson
This project, in collaboration with the EAGLE Scholar program in Dallas, Texas, explores ways to reduce inequalities among refugee youths by giving them access to the same educational facilities available to any native-born American.
The purpose of this project is to explore the conceptualization of Afghanistan’s mental health based on the local language, one that is well-accepted and suitable for the Afghanistan’s culture, religion, and legacy of history for the future development of educational interventions for their mental well-being. This project is funded by the Junior Koening & Ruth Knee Institute for Transformative Scholarship at the Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work.
Project Team: Dr. Yong-Mi Kim, Dr. Chie Noyori-Corbett, Dr. Roksana Alavi and Prof. Kirby Cannon
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