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Working With Refugee/Immigrant Families
Issues relevant to working with refugee/immigrant families.
Assessing the Need, Addressing the Problem: Working with Disadvantaged Muslim Immigrant Families and Communities (PDF - 557 KB)
Cainkar 2003)
Challenges to Muslim immigrants, including cultural values.
Bridging Refugee Youth and Children's Services
National technical assistance project working to broaden the scope of information and collaboration among service providers to strengthen services to refugee youth, children and their families.
Children in Immigrant Families: The U.S. and 50 States: National Origins, Language, and Early Education
Foundation for Child Development (2007)
Highlights the proportion, dispersion, national origins, language, and early education of children in immigrant families, both for the United States as a whole and in various states.
Enhancing State Child Welfare Services for Migrating Children: BRYCS Roundtable Discussion (PDF - 687 KB)
Bridging Refugee Youth & Children's Services (2005)
Information about serving migrating children, including resources, challenges, and agency collaboration and cooperation.
Interviewing Immigrant Children and Families About Child Maltreatment
Fontes (2000)
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Audiotape describes strategies for overcoming language barriers with immigrant children and family members.
Intimate Partner Violence in Immigrant and Refugee Communities: Challenges, Promising Practices and Recommendations
Family Violence Prevention Fund (2009)
Describes intimate partner violence in immigrant and refugee communities in the United States, examines the legal rights and practical challenges facing these victims, and presents promising practices from systems that serve immigrant and refugee families.
Raising Children in a New Country: A Toolkit for Working With Newcomer Parents (PDF - 387 KB)
Schmidt (2005)
Toolkit for developing parenting services to refugee families.
Refugees and the U.S. Child Welfare System: Background Information for Service Providers (PDF – 324 KB)
Bridging Refugee Youth and Children's Services (2006)
Toolkit for professionals working with refugess to help build understanding of the child welfare system, encourage stronger linkages between child welfare services and refugee resettlement agencies, and increase the responsiveness and cultural sensitivity to refugee children, youth and families.
Special Immigrant Juvenile Status for Children Under Juvenile Court Jurisdiction
Immigrant Legal Resource Center (2001)
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Overview of Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, a Federal law that helps certain undocumented children in the State juvenile system obtain lawful immigration status.
Strengthening Families in the Korean/Asian Immigrant Community (PDF - 722 KB)
Im (2003)
Includes recommendations on how to provide professional assistance and training about domestic violence to pastors and churches, offers suggestions on making additional resources available to the community at large, and recommends the need for further data.
Untangling the Web: Immigration Law and Child Welfare Practice (PDF - 956 KB)
Rome
Michigan Child Welfare Law Journal, 12(1), 2008
Examines the complex interactions between child welfare and immigration law, and discusses ways legal professionals can more effectively promote permanency, safety, and well-being for immigrant children.
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