CalSEC (California Social Work Education Center)

CalSWEC (California Social Work Education Center), University of California, Berkeley - School of Social Work, has just developed a new training resource, "Legal Residency for Juveniles within the Child Welfare System: Special Immigrant Juvenile Status & the Violence Against Women Act." This brief training resource, developed for supervisors and managers, is designed to inform child welfare staff on SIJS and VAWA and the applicability of these laws to undocumented immigrant youth who are in the child welfare system. There is also a separate curriculum resource for child welfare workers and includes the following components: learning objectives, Title IV-E competencies, lesson plan, training activities, and supplemental handouts.