The document discusses a proposed program to provide legal services to immigrants and refugees in the local community. The program aims to help them obtain identification documents and permits in order to access healthcare, economic opportunities, and an overall better quality of life. However, immigrants and refugees face significant barriers to receiving proper care, including financial constraints, bureaucratic state policies that restrict their access to services, and discrimination from the host community due to cultural and language differences. The proposed legal program seeks to address these challenges by helping immigrants and refugees become documented, enabling them to overcome socioeconomic and medical hardships.

1. Running head: COMMUNITY LEVEL BARRIERS1
COMMUNITY LEVEL BARRIERS8
Community Level Barriers
James Miller
HCA430 Special Populations
Instructor: Jennifer Maves
October 16, 2017)
Community Level Barriers
Introduction
The proposed program is aimed at providing legal services to
immigrants and refugees in the local community. It is intended

2. to make arrangements for their documentation so that they can
easily access proper medical care, and encourage their
participation in economic activities through making formal
applications to state institutions, to foster entrepreneurship. The
financial constraints and lack of documentation pose a big
challenge to the population’s access to high quality healthcare
services and a decent life. The legal plan will encourage
documentation of the group, which will help them overcome
socioeconomic and medical issues affecting them since
documentation is a major requirement to overcome these
challenges.
Proposed program description
The proposed program will offer legal services to immigrants
and refugees. The scope of the program includes facilitating the
acquisition of identification documents, work and health
permits, and healthcare documentation forms. The objective of
the program is to assist immigrants and refugees get appropriate
documentation that will enable them to access services that their
undocumented status disadvantage them from accessing such as
medical services. The program also seeks to enable the two
groups to participate in socioeconomic activities such as trade
to endow them the capacity to sustain themselves economically,
especially the refugees.
Barriers to receiving Proper Care
Financial Constraints
Refugees and immigrants have financial challenges in the
community. Most refugees fled from their home countries and
did not have enough time to organize their finances while others
lost their properties to the aggressors. Immigrants on the other
side are majorly seekers of better opportunities in the host
community, and are fleeing from socioeconomic constraints in
their home countries. In the host country, these two groups have
difficulties in establishing financial stability due to adaptability
and legal setbacks that include documentation. Immigrants are
not entitled to host-country support hence they are likely to run
out of money before they settle financially. The financial

3. challenges make it difficult for the two groups to access
standard health services and a decent lifestyle.
Bureaucratic State Policies
Immigrants and refugees are regarded as foreigners in the host
country. Many states have bureaucratic policies that limit
immigrants’ and refugees’ access to medical care and
socioeconomic privileges granted to the citizens (Hacker, Anies,
Folb&Zallman, 2015). For instance, refugees are generally
restrained in camps. They cannot go out to seek high quality
medical care due to legal restrictions and financial setbacks.
They thus have to rely on the provided medical aid in the
camps, which are often low quality and only offer basic medical
services. Immigrants and refugees are not entitled to medical
programs such as the State Children’s Health Insurance Program
(SCHIP) or Medicare that are available to the host country
citizens due to the government’s bureaucratic policies.
Discrimination and Ignorance
Many immigrants and refugees have difficulties in coping and
getting along with the host-country residents. Barriers such as
cultural differences, religious stereotyping, and language barrier
are examples of issues that can lead to discrimination of
refugees and immigrants by the host community. Discrimination
and language barrier can significantly limit the two-faction’s
access to medical care, and ease of conducting economic
activities. Further, their ignorance of how to conduct business,
and lack of understanding of the nature of diseases largely
limits their access to medical services, and participation in
economic activities (Wieland et al., 2013).
Potential
Solution
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