Demystifying Strengths-Based Services to Foster Refugees’ Resilience

This webinar was presented by Julie A. Tippens, DrPH, Assistant Professor of Child, Youth, and Family Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Peggy Fulda, MSW, LCSW, MPH, Clinician Lead at Lutheran Community Services Northwest; and Mahad Hassan, BA, Culturally Specific Certified Peer Specialist and Program Coordinator, Peer Training Program at Lutheran Community Services Northwest. 

This webinar explains what “strengths-based service delivery” means and how strengths-based approaches pertain to resilience, discusses evidence-informed strategies to promote refugee integration and wellbeing, and provides an example of a strengths-based peer support program.

Lesson Objectives

• Define key concepts related to strengths-based service delivery and resilience; 
• Recognize individual, family, community, and cultural strengths and assets in the resettlement context;
• Describe how a peer support model can promote resilience and wellbeing; and
• Name evidence-informed strategies you can use to build on the strengths of clients and communities.

Facilitators

Julie A. Tippens, DrPH, Assistant Professor of Child, Youth, and Family Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Peggy Fulda, MSW, LCSW, MPH, Clinician Lead at Lutheran Community Services Northwest; and Mahad Hassan, BA, Culturally Specific Certified Peer Specialist and Program Coordinator, Peer Training Program at Lutheran Community Services Northwest.