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Protecting Children through Strengthening Families: Healthy Marriage Initiative with Refugee Families (Roundtable 5)
Protecting Children through Strengthening Families:
Healthy Marriage Initiative with Refugee Families
(Roundtable 5)
Roundtable presenters review a qualitative research project designed to determine what refugees were reporting as stressors and strengths to marriages and families, challenges to parenting and mental health, and available and unmet social needs. A purposive sample of 40 families from the Congo, Cuba, Sudan, Ethiopia, Colombia and 15 social service providers were selected in two urban cities in the southwest. Data from the social service provider interviews revealed several themes related to strengthening families and the prevention of abuse and neglect. The study indicates that strengths exist such as faith practices and community unity as manifested through cultural values and beliefs, but that these are underutilized in the development of effective programs and policies for this population.
Rowena Fong, Ed.D., M.S.W.
Noel Busch, Ph.D., L.M.S.W., M.P.A.
Laurie Cook Heffron, M.S.W.
Anita McClendon
University of Texas at Austin
School of Social Work
1 University Station, D3500
Austin, TX 78712
View the complete list of presenters.