Central American Newcomer Youth: A Deep Dive for Helping Professionals
This workshop will cover the 4 thematic areas, ultimately enabling helping professionals to more effectively understand – and thus serve – Central American immigrant youth.
These thematic areas are:
- Theme 1: Context and background, including reasons for migration, push/pull factors, cultural contexts, trajectories of migration, and lived experiences on route to the U.S.
- Theme 2: Trauma exposure and resilience, including exposure to trauma in country of origin, trauma of prolonged separation, journey-related trauma, exposure to trauma in the U.S., including forced cultural distancing, sources of resilience and strength, cultural collectivism, etc.
- Theme 3: Identity and acculturation, including bicultural identity development, assimilation vs. acculturation, social inclusion vs. exclusion, forced distancing from cultural heritage, reactions to sociocultural dynamics, and experiences of xenophobia, nativism and racism.
- Theme 4: School-based experiences and what to do about them, including power dynamics and “pecking orders,” experiences in U.S. public schools with peers and teachers, school-based identity messaging, and what to do next to create climates of in which bicultural identity development – and ultimately academic success and well-being – can occur.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will develop a nuanced understanding of the lived experiences of Central American immigrant youth;
- Participants will be able to identify and describe the unique sources of resilience, strength, and cultural capital that Central American immigrant youth bring to the therapeutic relationship;
- Participants will identify strengths-based, culturally affirming strategies to effectively work with Central American immigrant youth.
Workshop Information
Date
On-demand
Time
1.5 hours
CEs
1.5
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Tuition
- $45 – Registration Fee
- $36 – Alumni, Adjuncts, Field Instructors Rate
- FREE – Student Rate
Faculty Bio
Stephanie Carnes, PhD, LCSW, LLM
Stephanie Carnes, PhD, LCSW, LLM, is a bilingual clinical social worker with over a decade of clinical, research, and advocacy experience. Her work focuses on culturally responsive and sustaining mental health care, and she has worked specifically with Central American immigrant youth. She is currently the Clinical Supervisor at the New York City Psychotherapy Collective.
Credentialing Information
Important: To receive approved continuing education credits, participants must attend the entire training or workshop and submit a completed evaluation form.
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New York State Office of the Professions (NYSED) regulations require that participants must be present for the entire approved educational activity in order to receive a certificate for continuing education hours. There is no accommodation in the State regulations for late arrival, late return from lunch or breaks, or early departure. According to NYSED, in order to award social work CEs; “When you offer a multi-day or multi-part course/educational activity, the learner must complete all parts in order to earn the certificate for contact hours, in the same way that a student must complete a semester-long course to receive college credit. You may not award partial credit for a program, even a one-day program, if the learner does not complete all requirements at that time.
Cancellation Policy
Please note that we are unable to offer refunds for cancellations made within seven business days of the event or for no-shows. However, if you notify us at least 24 hours in advance, we can issue a credit toward a future workshop. No credit will be provided for cancellations made less than 24 hours before the event.