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Education
- PhD, Columbia Univerisity
- MSW, California State University-Fresno
Areas of Expertise
- Child Welfare
- Immigrant and Refugee Populations
Courses Include
- Human Behavior I, II and III,
- Casework I and II,
- Social Policy I, and II: Immigrants and Refugees
- Professional Seminar
Reccent Scholarship
- Detlaff, A. and Earner, I. (accepted). Children of immigrants in the child welfare system: Characteristics, risk and maltreatment. Families in Society.
- Detlaff, A., Earner, I., Phillips, S.D. and Choi, E. H. (2009). Latino immigrant children in child welfare. Children and Youth Services Review.
- Earner, I. (2009). Double risk: Immigrant Mexican mothers, spouse abuse and child welfare services in New York City. Journal of Evaluation and Program Planning.
- 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.
- Earner, I. (2007). Immigrant families and public child welfare services: Barriers to
services and approaches to change. The Journal of Child Welfare 86(4).
Current Research
- Immigrant Families in the Child Welfare System
Cross-national ten country survey-based study of immigrant families involved with child welfare services that will examine how child welfare workers assess risks when practicing with immigrant families, what interventions and services they provide to these families and whether immigration status makes a difference in practice. The survey will also seek to assess what knowledge base and training child welfare workers utilize when working with immigrant families. The study is based at the University of Bergen in Norway.
- Make the Road By Walking - Social Workers and Social Entrepreneurship
Social work jobs in agency-based settings are evaporating steadily in the current climate of budget cuts and shrinking dollars for services to meet human needs; yet people with needs are not decreasing and many communities desperately need an advocate. How can social workers create new opportunities to meet the challenge of providing services in community-based settings? What skills should we be teaching social work students so that they can learn to meet the needs of individuals and communities in this new context? How can field and classroom experiences integrate social work practice with social entrepreneurship skills?
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