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Project Title

Community Collaboration for Immigrant Family

Presentation Type

Poster (Electronic Copy Not Available)

Keywords

Social work with immigrants--Iowa--Cedar Falls region;

Project Summary

This poster presentation shows how MSW intern, Darlene Fitkin, and her agency, Apostolic Pentecosta Church (APC) contacted another agency, Hope4Healing to help an immigrant family that was caught up in the immigration system. The immigrant family applied for asylum and had no work permit. Their sponsor left the state, leaving this family homeless and without a means of support. As an intern, Darlene and two agencies, APC and Hope4Healing, helped bring more than 21 other agencies in Cedar Valley and UNI students, together to help find a home, medical needs, food, clothing for this family. The process started with a French teacher, from UNI, volunteering her time, to help the Darlene and agency she was under, understand the French speaking family's needs.

Start Date

19-4-2018 9:00 AM

End Date

19-4-2018 10:30 AM

Event Host

UNI Office of Undergraduate Studies

Department

Department of Social Work

Department/Center/Organization

Social Work/Advanced Master Program

Award Category

Individual Student Project Award (Students Only)

Award Category

Service Learning/Live Client Project Award (Curricular)

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

File Format

application/pdf

Electronic copy is not available through UNI ScholarWorks.

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Community Collaboration for Immigrant Family

This poster presentation shows how MSW intern, Darlene Fitkin, and her agency, Apostolic Pentecosta Church (APC) contacted another agency, Hope4Healing to help an immigrant family that was caught up in the immigration system. The immigrant family applied for asylum and had no work permit. Their sponsor left the state, leaving this family homeless and without a means of support. As an intern, Darlene and two agencies, APC and Hope4Healing, helped bring more than 21 other agencies in Cedar Valley and UNI students, together to help find a home, medical needs, food, clothing for this family. The process started with a French teacher, from UNI, volunteering her time, to help the Darlene and agency she was under, understand the French speaking family's needs.