Sentences with phrase «experiences of refugee children»

Target group: This project aims to provide a learning program for the children (10 - 12 year olds) and young people of Australia on the specific experiences of refugee children and young people.

The fictional and nonfictional experiences of refugee children represented in the books below can be used in classrooms to serve multiple purposes.

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-- Also I grew up a child of refugees and in post war Germany and, therefore, have a few first hand stories and experiences.

How can one «criticize» the experience of the victim of domestic abuse or incest, the child refugee who has seen his family slaughtered by the national police, or the mother who must watch her children starve?

Most of the children arriving at the refugee settlements have experienced traumatic events, including witnessing murders and violence.

Its report out today on their experiences of destitution cited data indicating that over a third of the young refugees the Children's Society supports are destitute.

This paper will argue that the success of Child - to - Child methodology with children living in refugee and displaced persons» camps and other difficult circumstances underscores the importance of rights - based participation of children in issues that affect them, and will demonstrate that meaningful participation helps build resilience in children, especially those who have experienced traumatic events.

Deema Jarrar, an education specialist in Jordan, agreed, and used an example from her experience — the massive influx of Syrian refugees into Jordan, including 180,000 school - age children — of how this would work.

Although many of our students live with the trauma of the refugee experience, statistics around child protection notifications, the rates of childhood sexual assault, families living with violence and the rates of students beginning school developmentally vulnerable paint a picture of students in classrooms across Australia living with trauma in their daily lives.

Countries hosting refugee students tend to ignore the violence these children have experienced, or else they sanitize the history of their home country.

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These experiences of schooling can shape the attitudes of refugee parents and children, making them wary of US schools and teachers.

Teachers» understanding of these previous experiences can help refugee children in the US to succeed academically and become part of their new communities.

The author's experience, as one of 14,000 children moved from Cuba to a refugee camp in Miami in 1961, is told through engaging, fast - paced writing and well - developed characters.

Her parents were born during the First Indochina War, from 1946 — 54, and in learning and recording their experiences — her father's were especially full of unfathomable sorrows — and the complex political situations that led her family to become refugees, Bui makes sense of what she couldn't as a child.

Children's literature that addresses real and fictional refugee experiences can expand readers» understanding of the people whose lives are uprooted by war.

Using as a formalist departure point the measurement, «a home that is half of a four by six foot cubicle,» which served as a critique of the treatment of Vietnamese refugees who were given the minimal amount of space in the camps, Ngô combines architectural sculpture with traces of her siblings» experiences, which are at times poignant, humorous, and profound, but always expressing a full range of agency often denied to children and refugees alike.

Prior to joining Rise Women's Legal Centre, Vandana was a sole practitioner and practised primarily in the areas of family law, child protection law (as parent's counsel) and immigration & refugee law, with a focus on assisting women of color who had experienced family violence.

It will prioritise research into: children who have experienced trauma; young people at risk of offending behaviour; carers — particularly those caring for someone with depression and anxiety; elderly Australians especially those in residential aged care; and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, refugees and other potentially vulnerable cultural minority groups.

Cultural Competency in Child Welfare Practice: A Bridge Worth Building Bridging Refugee Youth and Children's Services (2007) Discusses the cultural and linguistic barriers that can be experienced when child welfare workers interact with foreign - born parents and the unique needs of refugee and immigrant famiChild Welfare Practice: A Bridge Worth Building Bridging Refugee Youth and Children's Services (2007) Discusses the cultural and linguistic barriers that can be experienced when child welfare workers interact with foreign - born parents and the unique needs of refugee and immigrant famichild welfare workers interact with foreign - born parents and the unique needs of refugee and immigrant families.

Whilst emotional and behavioural distress was experienced by children who had lost both parents, these children were found to function better than accompanied refugee children on measures of cognition and language.

Though not all refugee and asylum seeking children and adolescents are subjected to these circumstances, experiences often claimed to be encountered by them include the violent death of a parent, injury / torture towards a family member (s), witness of murder / massacre, terrorist attack (s), child - soldier activity, bombardments and shelling, detention, beatings and / or physical injury, disability inflicted by violence, sexual assault, disappearance of family members / friends, witness of parental fear and panic, famine, forcible eviction, separation and forced migration (Burnett & Peel, 2001; Davies & Webb, 2000).

War trauma experience and behavioral screening of Bosnian refugee children resettled in Massachusetts.

Her experience has included working with refugee and asylum seeker children, children at risk of abuse and neglect in the Child Protection System and more recently looking at progressive universal service provisions at ECMS.

Such experiences not only make refugee / asylum seeking populations heterogeneous, they also create vulnerability in children and adolescents due to their incomplete biopsychosocial development, dependency, inability to understand certain life events (Kocijan - Hercigonja, Rijavec & Hercigonja, 1998) and underdevelopment of coping skills (Ajdukovic & Ajdukovic, 1993).

The opportunity for parents to share their concerns about their child's resettlement and to support parents in understanding the impact of refugee and resettlement experiences on their children

The program manual specifies that at least two facilitators conduct the program, one of whom should have experience or a qualification in child welfare or counselling with experience in working with families from refugee backgrounds and / or refugee trauma, and one of whom should be a teacher.

-- Founding and managing substance abuse centers for 20 years (1997 - present)-- Founding and managing HIV counseling and testing center, Hayat, in Giza Egypt (2009 - present)-- Seven years consultant in UNDP HIV / AIDS Program in The Arab States (HARPAS) including conducting training workshops and research activities in middle east and African Horn countries (2005 - 2012)-- One year experience with UNHCER in Syria (2011 - 2012)-- Two years consultant with COSV organization (Italian organization) working with Syrian refugees and Syrian civil activists in Lebanon and Turkey (2013 - 2014)-- Conducting training and supervision work with a group of psychologists and psychiatrists working with children and families living with HIV (UNICEFF Egypt 2016)-- Main consultant trainer with psychologists and social workers working with Gender Based Violence refugee children in Egypt (Terre Des Hmmes 2017)-- Three years weekly TV program on marriage and couple relations (2014 - present)-- Experience with three TV series by acting and writing (2015,2016,2017)-- Board member in the Association of Evolutionary Psychiatric and Group Work, and the Egyptian Association of Group Therapies andexperience with UNHCER in Syria (2011 - 2012)-- Two years consultant with COSV organization (Italian organization) working with Syrian refugees and Syrian civil activists in Lebanon and Turkey (2013 - 2014)-- Conducting training and supervision work with a group of psychologists and psychiatrists working with children and families living with HIV (UNICEFF Egypt 2016)-- Main consultant trainer with psychologists and social workers working with Gender Based Violence refugee children in Egypt (Terre Des Hmmes 2017)-- Three years weekly TV program on marriage and couple relations (2014 - present)-- Experience with three TV series by acting and writing (2015,2016,2017)-- Board member in the Association of Evolutionary Psychiatric and Group Work, and the Egyptian Association of Group Therapies andExperience with three TV series by acting and writing (2015,2016,2017)-- Board member in the Association of Evolutionary Psychiatric and Group Work, and the Egyptian Association of Group Therapies and Processes

Topical titles — Insightful explorations of war and the refugee experience from a child's perspective

The objective of this article that uses a qualitative approach from quantitative measures is to describe the profile of four Indian refugee mothers experiencing high migration stress, and to present the challenges related to child attachment.