The Yale Pediatric Refugee Clinic

The Yale Pediatric Refugee Clinic was established in 2007 as a partnership between New Haven’s refugee resettlement agency Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services (IRIS) and the Yale Primary Care Clinic, YPCC. Together with the adult refugee clinic, these clinics serve families resettling in the greater New Haven area. Approximately 250 refugees arrive in the Greater New Haven area each year and about 50% are under the age of 18 yrs. Over the past several years, the pediatric clinic has annually performed 85-155 initial health assessments on recently resettled children, most of whom continue their longitudinal care at the YPCC. The majority of these children and their families come from war-torn countries including Afghanistan, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Sudan and Syria.

Refugees face many challenges navigating the U.S. healthcare system due to the complexity of the system, differences in access compared to their home countries, and language barriers. Our goal is to provide high quality health care to refugees and support their transition into a new health care system. The pediatric refugee clinic team is composed of pediatric medical providers, pediatric nurses, interpreters, a consulting pediatric psychiatrist and neuropsychologist. We work closely with the healthcare coordinators at IRIS, and we partner with the YPCC social worker, care coordinator and medical-legal partnership. The YPCC becomes the medical home for a majority of the children seen for their initial Refugee Health Assessment.

To read more about the Pediatric Refugee Clinic from WNPR, please click here.

For information about the Adult Refugee Clinic, please click here.