{"id":13509,"date":"2014-05-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/05\/11\/effort-helps-bhutanese-adjust-to-us\/"},"modified":"2014-05-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T12:00:00","slug":"effort-helps-bhutanese-adjust-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/05\/11\/effort-helps-bhutanese-adjust-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Effort Helps Bhutanese Adjust to U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/content\/stories\/local\/2014\/04\/21\/effort-helps-bhutanese-adjust-to-u-s-.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>COLUMBUS, OHIO, April 21, 2014 (Columbus Dispatch): Refugees resettled in the U.S. face cultural, language and religious barriers. They worry about the loved ones and friends they&#8217;ve left behind. There&#8217;s often a disconnect between their idyllic views of America and the difficulties they encounter finding good-paying jobs, especially in the recent economic downturn. &#8220;It&#8217;s not uncommon for them to be dealing with high levels of anxiety, stress and the lingering effects of trauma,&#8221; said Kelly Yotebieng, the wellness coordinator for Community Refugee &#038; Immigration Services, or CRIS, in Columbus.<\/p>\n<p>One group that has particularly struggled is the Bhutanese. More than 60,000 of Bhutan&#8217;s ethnic Nepalese have been resettled in the United States after being driven into exile by the country&#8217;s monarchy. Of the 1,285 refugees who were settled in Columbus last year, 444 were from the Asian nation of Bhutan. <\/p>\n<p>To help address those issues, CRIS created a refugee-wellness program six months ago. New arrivals from any country are screened for symptoms of mental distress and referred to counseling when needed. The program also offers eight-week support groups to help refugees adjust to their new lives. Next month, CRIS will start offering yoga and music sessions as alternative ways to help clients deal with stress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source COLUMBUS, OHIO, April 21, 2014 (Columbus Dispatch): Refugees resettled in the U.S. face cultural, language and religious barriers. They,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}