CEHD Inside / Out

Associate Professor Michael Goh (Educational Psychology) and community partners David McGraw Schuchman (People, Incorporated) and Kathryn McGraw Schuchman (Fraser Child and Family Center) presented a two-day workshop “Working with Immigrants and Refugees: Culture, Language, and Practice“ in Lincoln, Nebraska April 4-5, 2008. In the 1990s, Lincoln was selected by the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement as a preferred community for newly arrived refugees. Now they are one of the top twenty cities in America for new arrivals from abroad, the story of which is the highlight of bestselling author Mary Pipher’s book The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community. The workshop was organized by the College of Education and Human Sciences and the Psychological Consultation Center at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.