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From: Twanna <tkhodge20@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2024 9:10 AM
Subject: Fwd: Free Online Course - Improving Library Partnerships with Immigrants
FYI!!!!
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From:
Ana Ndumu <
andumu@umd.edu>
Date: Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 11:11 AM
Subject: [REFORMANET] Fwd: Free Online Course - Improving Library Partnerships with Immigrants
To: linaproject (SHARED) <
linaproject@umd.edu>
Hi,
Our team is finally debuting a professional development opportunity for libraries to strengthen relationships with immigrant neighbors:
ENROLL NOW in the FREE Improving Library Partnerships with Immigrants self-paced, online course for library workers. The course is limited to the first 50 registrants. Registration ends December 27th, and the course begins on January 6, 2024. Registrants are required to attend a half-hour online orientation session (several times available). Details to follow.
ABOUT THE COURSE:
Based on more than a year of data collection and co-design sessions with librarians across the country, the Improving Library Partnerships with Immigrants course is designed for reflective, self-paced learning. Course modules cover traditional library services for immigrants, the basics of the U.S. immigration system, immigrant acculturation, as well as challenges like compassion fatigue, anti-immigrant sentiment, and backlash against Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) efforts. Students will better understand the complex information environment faced by immigrants, and be better prepared to create transformative engagement with communities. Those who complete the course activities will receive a certificate and digital badge. CEUs are not offered. There will be a waitlist. Learn more at the Libraries, Integration and New Americans Project website. Questions or comments? Contact us at linaproject@umd.edu
Finally, below are two opportunities to understand the Trump administration's immigration tactics:
- We Are All America hosted a wonderfully informative webinar on anticipated Trump administration immigration policy changes:
- We Are All America's Immigration Landscape Post-Election National Webinar
- Happening next week -- Community Defender Training: What you Can do Now to Be Prepared
- Join the National Immigration Project for a free webinar for community defenders, advocates, and impacted community members to go over the basics of what you can do now to be prepared. We'll go over what we expect in the first days of the Trump administration; a primer on your Fourth Amendment rights; and ways for families to prepare in case of an arrest by ICE. Our two-hour program is meant to address your most burning questions and to remind you of the protections you already have. As policies change, we will continue to provide community defenders with the information and trainings they need to fight back and to keep their people ready to face whatever comes.
- Who should attend: Organizers, impacted community members, and other community defenders who are not lawyers.
- When: Monday, December 2, 2024, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Eastern
- Register Here
Thanks,
Ana
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Dr. Ana Ndumu, Assistant Professor
College of Information
University of Maryland College Park
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Have a wonderful day and week. Stay safe and well.
Take care,
Twanna
Twanna Hodge, MLIS (she, her, hers)
PhD Student | Information Studies
University of Maryland, College Park
2013 Spectrum Scholar
2022 Spectrum Doctoral Fellow
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