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, Maine Medical Center (MMC) 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. MMC can accredit continuing education activities with the following credit types: Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE), Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB), American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA), and American Psychological Association (APA). Registered Dietitians (RDs) and Dietetic Technicians, Registered (DTRs) 

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