Ilze Earner is an Assistant Professor at the Hunter College School of Social Work and specializes in the field of family and children’s services. She is the founder and director of the Immigrants and Child Welfare Project providing consulting, technical assistance and training on issues related to foreign-born populations and child welfare. For over ten years Dr. Earner has been instrumental in raising awareness about the special needs of immigrant families, children and youth involved in public child welfare systems.
She and Dr. Hilda Rivera co-edited a special edition of the Journal of Child Welfare “Immigrant and Refugee Families and Public Child Welfare” published by the Child Welfare League of America in September, 2005 and will be a co-editor of an upcoming special issue of “Protecting Children”, a publication of the American Humane Society. Dr. Earner has published numerous articles on child welfare with immigrant and refugee families, children and youth.
Dr. Earner is a member of the National Child Welfare Advisory Board, the Migration and Child Welfare Network and is a consultant with the National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice and Permanency Planning and with BRYCS, Bridging Refugee Youth and Children’s Services of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. She sits on the New York City Administration for Children’s Services Sub-Committee on Immigrant Issues. Her current research interests are focused on immigrant parents and child welfare, refugee children and youth, trafficking and training social work students on immigrant issues.
Dr. Earner received her Ph.D. from Columbia University and a Masters in Social Work from the California State University in Fresno. Dr. Earner is herself an immigrant; she was born in a refugee camp in France.
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Ilze Earner is an Assistant Professor at the Hunter College School of Social Work and specializes in the field of family and children’s services. She is the founder and director of the Immigrants and Child Welfare Project providing consulting, technical assistance and training on issues related to foreign-born populations and child welfare. For over ten years Dr. Earner has been instrumental in raising awareness about the special needs of immigrant families, children and youth involved in public child welfare systems.
She and Dr. Hilda Rivera co-edited a special edition of the Journal of Child Welfare “Immigrant and Refugee Families and Public Child Welfare” published by the Child Welfare League of America in September, 2005 and will be a co-editor of an upcoming special issue of “Protecting Children”, a publication of the American Humane Society. Dr. Earner has published numerous articles on child welfare with immigrant and refugee families, children and youth.
Dr. Earner is a member of the National Child Welfare Advisory Board, the Migration and Child Welfare Network and is a consultant with the National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice and Permanency Planning and with BRYCS, Bridging Refugee Youth and Children’s Services of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. She sits on the New York City Administration for Children’s Services Sub-Committee on Immigrant Issues. Her current research interests are focused on immigrant parents and child welfare, refugee children and youth, trafficking and training social work students on immigrant issues.
Dr. Earner received her Ph.D. from Columbia University and a Masters in Social Work from the California State University in Fresno. Dr. Earner is herself an immigrant; she was born in a refugee camp in France.