1st Edition
Child Welfare Practice with Immigrant Children and Families
1. Immigrant Children and Families and Child Welfare Alan Dettlaff 2. Culturally Competent Practice in Public Child Welfare Rowena Fong 3. Promoting Family Integrity: The Child Citizen Protection Act and its Implications for Public Child Welfare Sunny Harris Rome 4. Learning How to Dance with the Public Child Welfare System: Mexican Parents’ Efforts to Exercise Their Voice Cecilia Ayón, Eugene Aisenberg, and Pauline Erera 5. A Review of Family-Based Mental Health Treatments That May Be Suitable for Children in Immigrant Families Involved in the Child Welfare System Kya Fawley-King 6. Child Welfare and Immigration in New Mexico: Challenges, Achievements, and the Future Megan Finno and Maryellen Bearzi 7. Using Simulation Training to Improve Culturally Responsive Child Welfare Practice Robin Leake, Kathleen Holt, Cathryn Potter, and Debora M. Ortega 8. Translating Knowledge for Child Welfare Practice Cross-Nationally Julie Cooper Altman, GemJoy Barrett, Jenise Brown, Luvella Clark-Idusogie, Yaminah McClendon, Tanya Ruiz, Chenelle Skepple, and Latarsha Thomas 9. An Empirically Based Field-Education Model: Preparing Students for Culturally Competent Practice with New Immigrants Alma J. Carten and Jeanne Bertrand Finch
Biography
Alan Dettlaff is Assistant Professor in the Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago. Prior to entering academia, Dr. Dettlaff practised for several years in public child welfare as a practitioner and administrator, where he specialized in investigations of child maltreatment. Dr. Dettlaff’s research interests focus on improving outcomes for children of colour in the child welfare system through the elimination of racial disparities. Dr. Dettlaff is also Principal Investigator of the Jane Addams Child Welfare Training Project, which provides advanced training and financial assistance to students pursuing careers in child welfare.
Rowena Fong is the Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Professor in Services to Children and Families in the School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin. She has worked with immigrants in the communities of Boston, San Francisco, Honolulu, and Austin. Her current research is focused on the needs and services available to international and domestic victims of human trafficking. She has over 100 publications and is the author of six books, of which three are about culturally competent practice.
