Events & Outreach
Past Events
Responding to Immigrant Families and Children:
Rising to the Challenge
The project, “New Populations in Rural Counties: Implications for Child Welfare,” is intended to provide ways in which to improve responses to vulnerable children in immigrant and refugee families. The project will focus on several rural counties which have had an upsurge of settlements of new populations.
Presenters:
Ilze Earner, PhD, LCSW
Faculty, Hunter College School of Social Work
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Ilze
Earner's Presentation
Susan Schmidt, MSW
Consultant Bridging Refugee Youth & Children's Services
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Susan
Schmidt's Presentation
June 28, 2007
10:30am-2:30pm
Kandiyohi County Health and Human Services
2200 23rd Street NE
Willmar, MN 56201
The goal of the project is to learn enough to improve services, recommend best practices, and provide ways in which we can emphasize prevention so that children can be safe and secure, even when traumatic circumstances of uncertain citizenship prevail.
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packet
from the conference!
Includes powerpoint presentations, handouts and agenda.