Supporting Your Child Academically 

1) Bridging Refugee Youth & Children's Services (BRYCS) is a national technical assistance program working to broaden the scope of information and collaboration among service providers in order to strengthen services to refugee children, youth, and their families. On this site, you will find guides for parenting in a new country, guides for discussing sensitive subjects with your children, free webinars, among other extremely useful articles and resources. Many of these resources are translated to several languages.

https://brycs.org/

2) Colorín Colorado is the premier national website serving educators and families of English language learners (ELLs) in Grades PreK-12. Colorín Colorado has been providing free research-based information, activities, and advice to parents, schools, and communities around the country for more than a decade. 

http://www.colorincolorado.org/

3) The Refugee Center Online is a website created for refugees and immigrants in the United States. It is a one-stop, comprehensive website that houses all of the resources and information newcomers need to build successful lives for themselves and their families here in America. Content has been curated by resettled refugees and immigrants and is written for ESL viewers and those with limited formal educations. Programs are further enhanced by both automated and manual translations and the latest in multi-modal learning techniques. They offer a free U.S. citizenship classes, GED prep classes, as well as information on housing and other important social service items. The site can be translated to various languages.

https://therefugeecenter.org/about-us/

4) New York University's Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools has compiled glossaries by subject (Math, English/Language Arts, Science, Social Studies) and by grade levels in various languages. Feel free to use this with your children for homework help.

https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/metrocenter/resources/glossaries 

5) The Elizabeth Public Library has 4 branches throughout the city: Main Branch, Elmora Branch, LaCorte (Peterstown) Branch, and the E-Port branch. Besides the tremendous book/movie/resource collection our library contains, they host various children's, teens', and family activities and events. The library offers clubs for the youth and homework help. You can also visit the library for information on the city's Identification Card program, which will allow you to have identification by providing proof that you live in Elizabeth. The great thing is once you have a library card, you can access most of its services for free. 

http://www.elizpl.org/