Course Objectives

1. Assess causes and impacts of forced migration on refugees, resources, and social work practice with refugee women, children, youth, and families.
   
   
2. Analyze responses of international and local service providers along the relief-to- development continuum, and in resettlement.
   
   
3. Analyze the chronic stressors, gender, and identity issues accompanying conflict, forced migration, repatriation, and resettlement.
   
   
4. Evaluate the particular issues of refugee women, children, youth, and families in ecological context, and apply this knowledge in social work practice.
   
   
5. Apply knowledge of refugee family and intergenerational resources and conflicts in social work practice.
   
   
6. Identify refugee trauma and related interventions to promote psychosocial health.
   
   
7. Apply knowledge of Eritrean and East African culture and refugee issues in originating and host countries.
   
   
8. Promote the development of appropriate services to refugees across multiple settings and levels of social work practice.
   
   
9. Interact and problem-solve at an international and multicultural level with a greater degree of cultural competence.
   
   
10. Identify services and resources for Eritrean and Horn of Africa displaced persons in the local community.