BRYCS supports efforts to increase collaboration and cross-service training between child welfare agencies and refugee service providers. Such cross-service trainings enable child welfare workers to understand the cultural and political context from which refugees come, so that child protective service (CPS) and child welfare caseworkers can respond with cultural sensitivity when working with refugee families. Similarly, cross-service training’s can educate refugee service workers about child welfare and family preservation services available in a particular community, so that refugee service workers can in turn educate refugee clients about relevant services available to families.
Perhaps most importantly, cross-service trainings develop professional connections, relationships and respect between these two professional fields, reducing misunderstandings and misperceptions and increasing collaboration on behalf of refugee families in need.
Child Welfare Resources
Promising Practices
Promising Practices
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Child Maltreatment Prevention Curriculum
Child Maltreatment Prevention Curriculum
In partnership with ORR/DCS, BRYCS “Tier One” curriculum covers professional ethics and boundaries; types of child maltreatment; and responding to, reporting, and preventing child abuse and neglect. “Tier Two” encourages participants to apply their acquired knowledge to the complex scenarios often encountered by program staff who care for the children in ORR/DCS care.
Fostering Immigrant Children
Foster Parent Training PageChild Welfare Blog
IT’S HERE! Raising Teens in a New Country Handbook!
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Child Supervision
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Guardianship of U.S.-born Children
BRYCS is funded by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to provide tehcnical assistance to refugee families and the organizations that serve them. That said, [...]
Dating and Relationships
Dating and relationships is often a challenging topic to discuss with newcomers and can be a source of conflict in an immigrant family. Even something [...]
Best Practices on Informing Newcomers about a Sex Offender in their Community
Hello- Have you/your staff ever had to educate refugee families about the possibility of a convicted sex offender living in their community or even in [...]
Do’s and Don’ts of Child-friendly Interviewing
Recognizing the need to help children feel at ease during intake and assessment interviews, USCCB/MRS (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops/Migration and Refugee Services) developed [...]
The Central American Minor (CAM) Program
The CAM Program was implemented by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration from December 2014 to August 2017 in response [...]