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:
Detlaff, A. and Earner, I. (in press). Latino immigrant children in child welfare.Children and Youth Services Review.
Earner, I. (in press). Double risk: Immigrant Mexican mothers, spouse abuse and child welfare services in New York City. Journal of Evaluation and Program Planning.
Earner, I. and Garcia, G. (2008). Social work practice with Mexican immigrant families. Social Workers’ Desk Reference, second edition. Albert R. Roberts (Ed). New York: Oxford University Press.
Earner, I. (Spring, 2008). Children with immigrant parents in deportation proceedings.CW360. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare.
Detlaff, A. and Earner, I. (2007). (Eds.) Special Issue: The Intersection of Migration and Child Welfare: Emerging Issues and Implications. Protecting Children: A Professional Publication of the American Humane Association 22(2). Englewood, CO: American Humane.
Borelli, K., Earner, I. and Lincroft, Y. (2007). Administrators in public child welfare: Responding to immigrant families in crisis. Protecting Children: A Professional Publication of the American Humane Association 22(2).Englewood, CO: American Humane.
Earner, I. (2007). Immigrant families and public child welfare services: Barriers to services and approaches to change. The Journal of Child Welfare 86(4).
Velazquez, S., Earner, I, and Lincroft, Y. (2007 January/February). National attention to
immigration by child welfare organizations. Child Welfare League of America Children’s Voices, 16(2).
Fong, R. and Earner, I. (2007). Multiple traumas of undocumented immigrants: Crisis
re-enactment play therapy: Case of Ximena, age 12. In Nancy Boyd Webb (Ed). Play therapy with children in crisis, third edition. New York: The Guilford Press.
Rivera, H. and Earner, I. (2006). A model of collaboration between schools of social
work and immigrant-serving community-based organizations to ensure child
well-being. Protecting Children, A Professional Publication of the American Humane Association 21(2), 36-52.
Morland, L., Lummert, N. and Earner, I. (February, 2006). Brighter Futures for
Migrating Children: An Overview of Current Trends and Promising Practices in Child Welfare. Washington, D.C.: Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services and United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. [Available on-line: http:www.brycs.org/documents/BRYCSReport.pdf]
Earner, I. (2006, April). Lessons learned: Best practices with immigrant and refugee families, children and youth. Washington, D.C.: Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services and United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. [Available on-line: http://www.brycs.org/documents/cwla22706_earner_pdf
Earner, I. (2005). Immigrant youth in the child welfare system. In G. Mallon, P. Hess (Eds). Handbook of child welfare. New York: Columbia University Press.
Earner, I., Rivera, H. (Eds). (2005) Special Issue: Immigrants and Refugees and Public Child Welfare Services; The Journal of Child Welfare 84(5). Washington, D.C.: CWLA
Earner, I. (2005, March). Case study of child welfare interventions with refugee families in Texas. Washington, D.C.: Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services and United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. [Available on-line: http://www.brycs.org/documents/TexasCaseStudyMarch2005.pdf]
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 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. |
