Fundamentals of Social Work with Immigrants Part 1

1:00pm to 4:00pm ET

LIVE WEBINAR

Presenter: Dr. Blanca Ramos, PhD, LMSW

NASW-NYS Members: $45

NASW Other Chapter Member (Including NYC): $75

Non-Members: $90

NASW-NYS Student and Transitional Members: FREE

This workshop is approved for 3.0 continuing education credit hours for licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists and licensed psychologists

Please ensure that you register and/or join on Zoom with the name you would like to appear on your certificate.

Workshop Description
This course provides the basic knowledge base, value premises and practice skills for effective social work with immigrant and refugee clients. The course highlights the multiple psychosocial challenges immigrants and refugees may experience during resettlement, as well as the protective factors that may help them overcome adversity. Professional social work values and ethics, self-awareness and culturally informed practice strategies are examined. Immigration policies are discussed as they influence the lives of immigrants, service delivery, and can be a source of professional ethical dilemmas. While this course is designed specifically for social work with immigrants and refugees, it covers generic practice elements that are applicable to other social work helping relationships, particularly with diverse, oppressed, and marginalized populations.  

Learning Objectives

After the completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

1.    Describe the larger, societal forces that surround immigration and the migration experience of immigrants and refugees.
2.    Explain the psychosocial challenges immigrants and refugees may experience during resettlement, as well as the protective factors that may help them overcome adversity.  
3.    Discuss ways to apply culturally informed practice strategies and recognize the professional values and ethics that inform social work with immigrants and refugees.
4.    Recognize how their own cultural background could affect the effectiveness of their practice with clients who are immigrants and refugees.
5.    Describe the social injustice, xenophobia, prejudice, racism, and discrimination immigrants and refugees often experience.

This workshop is approved for 3.0 continuing education credit hours.

NASW-NYS is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers (Provider ID #0014), licensed mental health counselors (Provider ID #MHC-0053), licensed marriage and family therapists (Provider ID #MFT-0037) and licensed psychologists (Provider ID #PSY-0088).

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Presenter:

Dr. Blanca M. Ramos, PhD LMSW, Associate Professor in the School of Social Welfare and Department of Latin American Studies, at the University at Albany has extensive experience conducting workshops and presentations, at the national and international levels, focused on immigrants and refugees. Dr. Ramos developed a Master’s level advanced clinical course, Social Work Practice with Immigrants, which she has taught consecutively for over 15 years. Dr. Ramos is the first author of an upcoming textbook on social sork practice with immigrants and refugees.