A program called Fun Days Out which offers normalising social experiences for refugee children is presented and reviewed. The evidence for a recreational approach to recovery from trauma through community integration for refugee children in South Australia is examined, focusing on the literature about traumatised children, resilience, community development and relevant social work theory. The article concludes that the program foundations and operations are well supported in the literature and calls for further research, especially program evaluation which measures the lasting impacts of intervention, as the basis for expansion in this model of working with vulnerable children and young people. (Description from source)
