URM Tutoring Program

URM tutoring programREFUGEE TRANSITIONS / CATHOLIC CHARITIES

Refugee Transitions and Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County are pleased to announce a partnership to provide new tutoring services to Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (URMs).

Presentation to New Tutors


partner orgs.

CCSCC provides resettlement and social services for refugees and other clients.Refugee foster children are assisted through CCSCC’s Refugee Foster Care Program. CCSCC services revolve around social work and resettlement, not tutoring.

RT provides tutoring, life, and language training for refugees. Refugee children are assisted through home-based and site-base tutor and afterschool programs. RT specializes in tutoring, it is not a social service agency and does not provide resettlement services

The URM Tutoring Program

This program represents a joint effort between CCSCC and RT to deliver RT’s tutoring capacity to children in CCSCC’s Refugee Foster Care Program.All tutors in this URM tutoring program will receive the same trainings as volunteer tutors in RT’s other volunteer tutor programs.

Program Time Frame Benefits Requirements

FOSTER CARE From time of arrival to age 18 or 19*

* Youth may decide at age 18 to either continue with one more year of foster care or to join the Supported Housing program. We encourage youth to stay an additional year in foster care as it gives them an additional year of support

Foster home environment$20-$80 monthly allowanceEducational supportAnnual clothing allowanceIndependent living classesCase management servicesFamily tracing servicesLegal services

Attend school full-timeAttend monthly independent living program (ILP) trainingsMeet monthly with social workerAt age 15.5, complete online Casey Life Skills Assessment and first Transitional Independent Living Plan (TILP)Meet with ILP Coordinator every 6 months to review TILP

SUPPORTED HOUSING

24 months of support following foster care. Months may be nonconsecutive.

*Youth may choose at this time where they want to rent a room. Some choose to stay in the foster parent’s home, others move to a boarding house, others rent an apartment with friends or a room in a house.

Independent livingMonthly stipends Educational Chafee grantCatholic Charities IDA Emancipation savings fundILP trainings and field tripsTILP assessment and supportCase management services

Full-time attendance in school, work, or a combination of bothMeet with ILP Coordinator every 6 monthsMeet monthly with social worker

EMANCIPATED YOUTH PROGRAM

From completion of the Supported Housing Program until age 24.

Emergency stipendsEducational Chafee grantsCatholic Charities IDAILP trainings and field tripsTILP assessment and supportCase management services

Meet with ILP Coordinator every 6 monthsCheck in with social worker every 2-3 months minimum

A Quick Look at URM/CCSCC Refugee Foster Care Programs

The following groups are assisted by CCSCC’sRefuge Foster Care Program: Refugees Asylees Victims of Human Trafficking Cuban/Haitians Special Immigrant Juvenile Status Unaccompanied Alien Children/Division of

Children’s Services


client groups


refugeesRefugees…: …have a well-founded fear of persecution in their country of origin

and flee to escape violence and threats to their safety …are persecuted on the basis of their race, religion, political

opinion, nationality, ethnicity or membership in a particular social group Cuban/Haitians

…are under the protection of UNHCR in countries signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention and subsequent Protocols Unaccompanied Alien Children/Division of Children’s Services

…are placed in refugee camps where conditions negatively impact their development and well-being

Asylum law closely mirrors refugee law, in that the grounds of well-founded fear of persecution are identical:

Race, Religion, Political Opinion, Nationality, or belonging to a particular social group

Those who win their case are considered asylees.

All refugees are at one point asylum-seekers, but not all asylum-seekers are refugees.


asylees

Under US law, human trafficking includes:• Recruitment• Smuggling• Abducting• Transporting• Harboring• Buying/Selling of a

person

By means of:• Force• Fraud• Coercion

For the purposes of:• Commercial

and/or• Sexual

exploitation


victims of trafficking

Sexual Exploitation - Sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, OR coercion or in which the person induced to perform such an act is under 18

Forced Labor - The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services through the use of force, fraud, or coercion, for the purpose of subjecting that person to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery

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forms of trafficking

All students are Unaccompanied Refugee Minors or Unaccompanied Alien Children*

URM CHILDREN ARE NOT ADOPTABLE (because parent could be found abroad and children would lose their eligibility to bring family to the U.S.)!

* Catholic Charities Refugee Foster Care serves clients from two programs of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR): The Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (URM) program that serves refugees, asylees, victims of human trafficking and victims of abuse/abandonment/neglect and the Division of Children’s Services (DCS) program that serves unaccompanied alien children (UACs).


our students

Students in the URM tutoring program come from: Bhutan (8) The Democratic Republic of the Congo (8) Burma (4) Guatemala (3) Honduras (3) Somalia (3) China (2) Mexico (2) Sudan (2) Central African Republic (1) Rwanda (1) Vietnam (1)

* Catholic Charities Refugee Foster Care serves clients from two programs of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR): The Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (URM) program that serves refugees, asylees, victims of human trafficking and victims of abuse/abandonment/neglect and the Division of Children’s Services (DCS) program that serves unaccompanied alien children (UACs).


origin; gender

We serve: 22 Boys 16 Girls

When a mandated reporter acquires knowledge or a reasonable suspicion that a child is being abused (or has been abused), he or she must make a telephone report immediately and a written follow-up within 36 hours to the appropriate authorities.

If you’re attending this training and reading this slide, YOU ARE A MANDATED REPORTER!


mandated reporters

!

California law defines the followingcategories of child abuse:

Physical Abuse Sexual Abuse Severe and General Neglect


child abuse

If you have a “reasonable suspicion” then you are required by law to report child abuse. Failure to report can result in imprisonment or fines or both.

A “reasonable suspicion” occurs when: “it is objectively reasonable for a person to entertain such a suspicion, based upon facts that could cause a reasonable person in a like position, drawing when appropriate on his or her training and experience, to suspect child abuse.”

Report child abuse in your county.

County CPS Telephone No.

Alameda 510-259-1800

Contra Costa 925-646-1680

Santa Clara 408-299-2071

Santa Cruz 831-454-4222

San Francisco 415-558-2650

San Mateo 650-595-7922


how to report

Maintain tutor role (make this clear to your student)

Demonstrate to your client healthy communication skills and professional relationship building

Avoid burning out or playing the “rescuer/hero” role

Stay focused on one’s responsibilities to the client

Maintain one’s physical safety and emotional well-being


tutor boundaries

Poor boundary setting can result in: Compassion fatigue Potential for “splitting” or “triangulating” The client feeling betrayed, abandoned, and/or

poorly served Ruined client relationship with our agencies and/or

the tutoring profession Poor, inappropriate or unhelpful service, which could

affect client’s willingness to accept future services Legal violations, social service interruptions, etc…


poor boundaries…

Client and tutor referring to each other as “friends” (some flexibility here)

Giving/receiving large or expensive gifts Client asking for tutor’s personal info. (i.e. home

phone #) Tutor offering assistance outside of his/her role (i.e.

transportation, babysitting) Tutor venting with client about personal and/or

professional life Tutor over-invested in social, financial, or emotional life of

client or client’s family (“losing sleep” or “feeling anxious”)


boundary violations

Successful tutoringshould include…: Boundary-setting with

client and family Identifying your role in

client’s life Working closely with

client’s social worker Noting/reporting

significant changes in client’s behaviors

…and should notinclude: Giving legal advice Attending client’s family

vacation Sharing client’s “stories”

with identifying info. Giving or borrowing $$$ Diagnosing client (i.e.

“she’s so bi-polar”)


what to do/not do

Speak to your supervisor at Refugee Transitions (415) 989-2151

Contact Adrienne Goldsworth from Catholic Charities at 831-247-1565


when in doubt

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