Continuing Education

Hosted in part by the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Ph.D. Program, this session will discuss the impact of health misinformation and share ways we can confront health misinformation by helping individuals, families, and communities better identify and limit its spread. We will also highlight a number of ways institutions and organizations can approach this issue.

Kinship Navigator Programs are increasingly popular within the child welfare field as the use of kinship caregivers has gained popularity. Kinship Navigator Programs are designed to provide evidence-based services to kinship caregivers and their families to support their placements to increase the safety, permanency, and well-being of children placed within these families while also increasing the well-being of the kinship caregiver.

We will cover the definition of racial microaggression, the impact of racism on ethnic-minority populations and how this impacts the mental health of immigrant people in the U.S., especially amid and post-COVID-19. What social and community systems would positively affect their mental health conditions? We will also cover the definition of racial-ethnic identity development as well as the importance of understanding it as social workers; how to help ethnic minority adoptees’ RCID establishment and what information social workers need to provide to adoptive parents for ethnic minority children’s confidence and racial identity.