Dear subscribers,
 
Below is information about a conference next September that may be of interest to many on this  list. 
 
Lynda Terrill
lterrill at cal.org
 
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Announcing the 

2008 National Refugee and Immigrant Conference:  Issues and Innovations

Thursday-Friday, September 25-26, 2008

Holiday Inn Chicago-Mart Plaza, Chicago, IL

 

The 2008 Refugee and Immigrant Conference offers groups and individuals assisting refugee and immigrant children and their families an opportunity to network and learn about issues affecting refugee and immigrant children and their families, schools, health, and health care, along with the challenges of cultural adjustment.  This conference is valuable if you are a ... state refugee coordinator, RCSIG coordinator, bilingual education coordinator, resettlement worker, social worker, school teacher, school administrator, counselor, university faculty, university student, healthcare professional or a refugee and immigrant services staff member.

 

The conference will include sessions on:

 

*          Integration of  Services:  integrating services and networking among educators, counselors, and healthcare professionals to strengthen and improve responses to refugee and immigrant needs 

 

*          Creating Partnerships:  creating partnerships between families and service providers, emphasizing involvement, awareness and understanding

 

*          Multiple-risk Families:  understanding and helping the most vulnerable:  children with multiple risks from behavioral, emotional and health-related problems; effects of dislocation, including stress, suicide, gang violence and family disruptions

 

*          PreK-12 Educational Issues:  developing dialogues among teachers of refugee students on best practices for:  integrating refugee children and their families into the American school system; providing early intervention by serving refugee children in PreK programs; educating teenage refugee students without any prior school experience or with broken schooling; encouraging high school refugee students into career exploration and post-secondary education

 

*          Family Life Education:  strengthening refugee and immigrant families and facilitating productive cultural adjustment. 

 

*          Health Issues:  health promotion, nutrition, mental health, women and children's health, and accessing services for the disabled 

 

*          Refugee Influxes:  recent refugee influxes, including Afghani, Burundian, Burmese, Bhutanese, Iraqi

 

*          Jobs:  development, placement and training

 

*          Issues of citizenship and immigration

                          

Information and the Call for Conference Workshop Proposals can be found at http://www.thecenterweb.org/alrc/refugee.html <https://mail.cal.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.thecenterweb.org/alrc/refugee.html> .  If you have any questions, please contact Lynn Osheff (losheff at thecenterweb.org).

 

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