Working with Immigrant and Refugee Families: A Guide for Child Welfare Caseworkers (1 credit hour)

Program Summary:  This course explores culturally specific and responsive strategies for working with immigrant and refugee families.  The course highlights the unique strengths of immigrant and refugee families, including a focus on family, education, work, faith, and community.  The course also examines specific challenges faced by immigrant and refugee families, including difficulties with acculturation, language, economic hardship, legal concerns, and trauma.  The course offers an overview of possible concrete supports and eligibility.

This course is recommended for social workers and counselors and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.  

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Reading:  Working with Immigrant and Refugee Families:  A Guide for Child Welfare Caseworkers  Publisher:  Children’s Bureau Child Welfare Information Gateway

Course Objectives:  To enhance professional practice, values, skills and knowledge by exploring culturally specific and responsive strategies for working with immigrant and refugee families.

Learning Objectives:  Describe unique strengths and challenges of immigrants and refugee families.   Identify culturally specific and responsive strategies for working with immigrant and refugee families.  Identify potential concrete supports that might be available for immigrant and refugee families.

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Course Available Until: October 31, 2027.

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1: Which of the following is a strength of immigrant and refugee families?
 
 
 
 
2: There are no Federal laws requiring agencies to share a family's immigration status to identify individual families.
 
 
3: Which children in the US have the right to receive free elementary and secondary school educations?
 
 
 
 
4: Federal law orders that housing programs designed for safety purposes are available to
 
 
 
 
5: Decisions around when to pursue immigration benefits should be made in consultation with the child or youth and their attorney or another legal professional.
 
 
6: If a family has a member or members who are at risk for detention or deportation due to their immigration status, they should have __________ in place.
 
 
 
 
7: Child welfare policies should prioritize _____________.
 
 
 
 
8: Culturally __________ services are developed specifically for members of particular racial and ethnic groups.
 
 
9: Culturally ____________ services are designed to respond respectfully and effectively to people of various cultures.
 
 
10: When referring undocumented children and families for services, caseworkers will want to
 
 
 
 

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G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course.  She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience.  She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City.  She has practiced for many years in the area of hospital/medical social work.  The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.

Course Available Until: October 31, 2027.
Filed under: Children, Cultural Competence, Families