Professional
Interests:
Child
welfare policy and practice, child welfare and immigrant
and refugee populations, child welfare training and
immigrant issues, special needs of immigrant families,
children and youth
Current
Research Interests:
Evaluating
collaborations between universities, child welfare
and immigrant community-based organizations. An examination
of approaches to developing relationships between
schools of social work, public child welfare services
and immigrant-serving organizations to enhance training
and capacity.
Unaccompanied
immigrant and refugee minors. Issues for permanency
planning with unaccompanied immigrant and refugee
minors in foster care.
Recent Publications:
Earner,
I. (in press). Immigrant families and public child
welfare: Barriers to services and approaches to change.
The Journal of Child Welfare.
Earner,
I. and Rivera, H. (Eds). (2005). Special issue: Immigrants
and refugees and child welfare. The Journal of
Child Welfare 84(5).
Earner,
I. (2005, March). Case study of child welfare interventions
in refugee families in Texas. Washington, D.C.: BRYCS
[Available on-line: http://www.brycs.org/documents/TexasCaseStudyMarch2005.pdf
Earner,
I. (2005). Immigrant children and youth in the child
welfare system: Immigration status and special needs
in permanency planning. In G.P. Mallon and P.M. Hess
(Eds). Child welfare for the 21st century: A handbook
of practices, policies and programs (pp. 655-664).
New York: Columbia University Press.
Earner,
I. and Riedel, M. (May, 2004). Enhancing field
internships and building capacity in immigrant community
services. Poster session presented at the Fourth
International Conference on Social Work in Health
and Mental Health, Quebec City, Canada.
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