Training Class Details
Class Title: The Impact of Immigration Trends on Attachment and Family for Child Welfare Professionals
Class Date: Monday, July 7, 2025
Class Time: 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Availability: Employees and Eligible Participants
Available spaces: 9
Class Location: Webinar - refer to the class description section for more information about how to participate.
[ Online ]
[ Online ], CA 94618
Class Trainers: Jeanette Lopez-Urbina
Class Description:

Training Summary:

Several youth and families, especially those from the Latine community, that we serve in child welfare services have experienced shifts and transitions in their family systems due to immigration trends. Eventually, families may reunite with their children, but what may be considered as a joyous occasion, is often experienced as challenging by families due the attachment disruption that may have occurred between parent(s) and their children during the separation. Along with the attachment and relationships being disrupted, the families face challenges, such as bicultural identities, acculturation, trauma, and several other factors that further compounds the stress for the family. This workshop will provide an overview in understanding the challenges that families face when an attachment disruption took place due to immigration as well as the impact of other accompanying challenges that surround families in such situations. Participants will discuss factors such as trauma, resilience strategies and support tools to help youth with similar experiences.

 

Class Objectives: 

Participants will:

  • Review historical and intergenerational factors that influence immigration trends in families from some Latin American countries and how it effects youth in care.

 

  • Identify, at least, 3 ways in which families are impacted by immigration in a family system

 

  • Identify 3 to 5 skills in engaging and providing culturally responsive services to families to support them in the attachment and relationship challenges impacted by immigration in order to develop resiliency skills.

 

How can participants utilize their new skills and knowledge after the training to reinforce their learning? 

·        Increase awareness through self-reflective activities of the ways in which we can identify, challenge, and reduce implicit bias towards immigrant communities.  

·        Participants will apply concepts to client care, including applying concepts to engagement, assessment, and support strategies.

·        Participants will build on their knowledge and practice of the concepts learned by integrating the information in supervision and other consulting spaces.