(NAME-MCE) National Refugee and Immigrant Conference September 25-26 Chicago IL

[Anselmo Villanueva]

2008 National Refugee and Immigrant Conference: Issues and Innovations

September 25-26, 2008
Chicago, Illinois

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
* Creating Partnerships
* Multiple-risk Families
* PreK-12 Educational Issues
* Family Life Education: strengthening refugee and immigrant families and
facilitating productive cultural adjustment.
* Health Issues
* Refugee Influxes
* 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

If you have any questions, please contact Lynn Osheff at
losheff at thecenterweb.org