A joint project of:

Lutheran
Immigration and Refugee Service
(LIRS)
www.lirs.org

and


United States Conference of
Catholic Bishops/
Migration and
Refugee Services
(USCCB/MRS)
www.usccb.org/mrs

BRYCS
888.572.6500
info@brycs.org

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TWO NEW BRYCS PUBLICATIONS ON REFUGEE CHILDREN AND FOSTER CARE

"Foster care for refugee children who enter the public child welfare system is too often a nightmare of confusion for everyone involved: the child, the birth family, the foster caregiver, and the social service providers who are trying to provide safety in a culturally sensitive manner."

"In an effort to develop ideas for supporting refugee children in public foster care, the BRYCS project convened a Roundtable meeting July 20-23, 2003, in Washington, DC.  The meeting brought together representatives of refugee communities, refugee-serving agencies, and the foster care system.  The first national gathering of its kind, the Roundtable exposed national leaders in child welfare to the concerns of refugee community members and service providers and gave refugee community leaders tools and strategies for working with their local child welfare systems."  Read the BRYCS  Roundtable report, Foster Care at a Cultural Crossroads: Refugee Children in the Public Foster Care System.

Another new BRYCS publication, Serving Refugee and Foreign-Born Foster Children, "introduces service providers to challenges and opportunities for interagency and interorganizational collaboration and highlights salient issues concerning foster care service for refugee children.  The paper provides resources as well as lessons learned from technical assistance efforts related to refugee child welfare and from the specialized refugee foster care system funded by the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement."  You can read the report here.