This guide, largely a product of the Language and Orientation Resource Center's (LORC) "Working Session on Program Development for Refugee Women," is a resource for use by refugees and by persons and organizations working with refugees. The main part of the guide is divided into five sections: (1) an introduction to recent attention to them, and a discussion of current recent attention to them; and a discussion of current directions of refugee resettlement in the United States; (2) identification of needs and resources, including assessment of both individual and program needs; (3) self-help activities, including an overview of them and a discussion of various kinds of advocacy and organizational questions related to self-help activities; (4) components of program design, including existing models, human resources, creating the environment, and collaboration with existing community resources and fundraising; (5) summaries of individual programs including their addresses; and (6) samples and reproductions of program materials. The guide concludes with a selected bibliography and a list of participants in the LORC workshop. (AMH)