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Panel Session

Immigrants, Refugees, and Displaced Populations

Session: Optimizing Service Delivery in Child Welfare: Working with Immigrant and Refugee Families and Children

Optimizing Service Delivery in Child Welfare: Working With Immigrant and Refugee Families and Children

Friday, October 25, 2024
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM CT
Location: KC Convention Center, Room 3501C
Earn 1 CE Hour
Refugees and immigrant’s resettlement in U.S. includes small towns and rural areas. This collaborative project developed a training protocol for child welfare workers to enhance culturally and linguistically responsive practice capacity in among child welfare workforces. This framework may serve as a blueprint for other trainers and educators.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Participants will explore the diverse nature of refugees and immigrants’ settlement in the U.S. with particular emphasis on small town and rural areas. The unique challenges that confront these communities, the gaps in social work education, and training to prepare students and practitioners will be discussed.
  2. Participants will discuss the framework and content a team of researchers, state agencies, advocacy groups, practitioners, and members of the refugee and immigrant communities use to develop and train child protective services workers to enhance their capacity to support the group.
  3. Participants will appraise the value of these from the outcome evaluation of the child protection workforce who participated in the project. Also, participants will assess the value of potential opportunities in using the training model to in their respective training and educational programs.