Safe Space Radio: The Experience of Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Monday, December 20, 2021, 8:00 AM - Friday, June 30, 2023, 9:00 AM

This show explores the unique challenges that refugees and asylum seekers face. We focus on the experiences of women who have re-settled in Maine as a case study of the resettlement process throughout the U.S. We explain the technical aspects of being a refugee or asylee and the difficult process that these individuals have to go through in order to be granted a new home. Expert accounts frame two deeply personal and inspiring stories of persecution, trauma, courage, resilience, and hope.

1. Describe the differences between refugees and asylum seekers and the steps these individuals take before settling in the United States.
2. Bring a new understanding of the degree to which gender-based violence affects women refugees and asylees, to their care of their patients.
3. Validate and support their refugee and asylum-seeking patients as they navigate an inherently re-traumatizing process going through the legal system here in the US in order to seek safety.
4. Identify how the United Nations Security Council has addressed the issue of gender-based violence.

In support of improving patient care, MaineHealth is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.  



DISCLOSURE:
All planners, faculty, and other in control of the content of this educational activity have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (i.e., commercial organizations).

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), AAPA (American Academy of Physician Assistants) Enduring Material Activity (1.00 hours), ANCC - American Nurses Credentialing Center (1.00 hours), APA (American Psychological Association) (1.00 hours), ASWB - Social Work (1.00 hours), IPCE - Interprofessional Continuing Education (1.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (1.00 hours)

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

MaineHealth adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.