Refugee/Immigrant Housing and Health Barriers
2.00 CEU's
COST: $ 35.00 - EXPIRATION DATE: 2024-12-31
Course Description, Learning Objectives and Course Level of Difficulty
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Course Description
Many individuals within the refugee and immigrant community come form collectivist cultural backgrounds, and from traumatic experiences. This webinar will explore the refugee and immigrant population, and their lived realities in American communities. It will also explore the issue of housing and social barriers they experience especially in the urban communities, and how these are related to the health and economic success of these populations.
Learning Objectives
1. Understand the refugee and immigrant population
2. Understand the realities of refugee/immigrant populations in the United States
3. Understand the housing realities of these populations
Course Level of Difficulty All Levels
HUD Category
Cultural Competency (Additional Recommended Training Areas)
TAKING THIS COURSE
This course consists of 1 lessons and a final exam.
Lesson 1: Refugee/Immigrant Housing and Health Barriers
The lessons consist of video and optional supplemental materials. For the final exam, participants can take a maximum of 3 attempts to achieve a passing score of 80% or higher. Participants who achieve a passing score can print out a course certificate of completion. Participants who do not pass the final exam after 3 attempts will need to re-pay for and repeat the entire course to attempt to earn credit.
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Course Completion Information:
A. 90 days to start course
B. Once course started, 180 days to complete course
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About the Instructor
Omar Bah is the founder and executive director of the Refugee Dream Center.,
Omar Bah is the founder and executive director of the Refugee Dream Center. Bah is the winner of several awards, and is the author of the book, Africa’s Hell on Earth: The Ordeal of an African Journalist. He is a staunch advocate of refugee and immigrant rights. He currently teaches Global Mental Health both at William James College, and at the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma. Omar is a trained master's level mental health counselor, and is a final year doctoral candidate in Leadership Psychology with focus on neuropsychology of leadership. He has great interest in trauma and recovery. He is a member of the Global Advisory Board of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies at the Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs of Brown University. He speaks English and 4 other Gambian languages.