Northwest Conference on Resettlement
Conscious Compassionate Community
October 17 & 18, 2024
At the College of Idaho, Caldwell
Attend a longstanding, nationally respected conference to grow your skills and understanding in resettlement, immigration, cultural humility, working with New Americans, trauma-informed services, and compassionate community building. Continuing education credits available. Open to all.
Early bird registration ($120) is now open.
Registration includes breakfast and lunch both days.
REGISTER HERE
Coming in from out of town?
The closest airport is the Boise Airport which is about a 30-minute drive from the hotel and conference venue. There are no shuttle services from the airport to the hotel. We may arrange transportation if we have the volunteers to support it but please prepare to Lyft/Uber to and from the airport.
After you register for the conference, you will receive an email receipt with a link and directions to our discounted group rate at the Best Western Plus in Caldwell. Rooms cost $140.00 per night on the group rate.
Early bird registration ($120) is now open.
Registration includes breakfast and lunch both days.
REGISTER HERE
Coming in from out of town?
The closest airport is the Boise Airport which is about a 30-minute drive from the hotel and conference venue. There are no shuttle services from the airport to the hotel. We may arrange transportation if we have the volunteers to support it but please prepare to Lyft/Uber to and from the airport.
After you register for the conference, you will receive an email receipt with a link and directions to our discounted group rate at the Best Western Plus in Caldwell. Rooms cost $140.00 per night on the group rate.
Background & Purpose
The Northwest Conference on Resettlement (previously the Idaho Conference on Refugees) is an annual, nationally respected conference that has been organized by the Idaho Office for Refugees for over 15 years.
The conference is geared toward resettlement workers, teachers, medical and health care professionals, nonprofit service providers, volunteers, advocates, and community members.
We welcome hundreds of attendees each year who come to learn skills and best practices in working with people from refugee and immigrant backgrounds – from language access, to cultural humility and competence, to creative and culturally appropriate ways to work with students, patients, and clients who have experienced trauma and displacement. Attendees, presenters, and workshop leaders from refugee backgrounds provide firsthand perspectives and collaborative ideas for solutions.
Our theme this year is Conscious Compassionate Community. As political uncertainty, violent conflict, and anti-immigrant sentiment regains footholds close to home and around the world, bringing people together to work toward peace and dignified treatment of all is vital work for the health and well-being of society.
The conference is geared toward resettlement workers, teachers, medical and health care professionals, nonprofit service providers, volunteers, advocates, and community members.
We welcome hundreds of attendees each year who come to learn skills and best practices in working with people from refugee and immigrant backgrounds – from language access, to cultural humility and competence, to creative and culturally appropriate ways to work with students, patients, and clients who have experienced trauma and displacement. Attendees, presenters, and workshop leaders from refugee backgrounds provide firsthand perspectives and collaborative ideas for solutions.
Our theme this year is Conscious Compassionate Community. As political uncertainty, violent conflict, and anti-immigrant sentiment regains footholds close to home and around the world, bringing people together to work toward peace and dignified treatment of all is vital work for the health and well-being of society.
Workshops
The conference will include several workshops to choose from focused on skill-building, best practices, and cultural understanding. Continuing education credits are available. This year we are focused on increasing our capacity for compassion and building community that will stand strong in the face of challenges. Workshops will highlight new ideas to improve service, focus on a client-centered perspective and approach, bring art to the foreground, and advance opportunities for healing and a sense of agency for refugees and immigrants.
2024 Keynote Presentation by Stephanie Foo
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New York Times Bestselling Author of
What My Bones Know, A memoir of healing from complex trauma
What My Bones Know, A memoir of healing from complex trauma
In 2018, Stephanie Foo was diagnosed with Complex PTSD, an under-researched and under-diagnosed condition. After her diagnosis, Stephanie decided to write a book on C-PTSD; that book – her critically-acclaimed memoir, What My Bones Know – was published in 2022. Publisher’s Weekly’s starred review called it, “A work of immense beauty.”
Stephanie is a storyteller at heart. As a child, Stephanie created comics, got her start in print journalism, then became fascinated with audio narratives. She’s worked as a radio producer for This American Life, Snap Judgment and freelanced for podcasts like Invisibilia, The Cut, Nancy, Reply All and 99% Invisible. At This American Life, she reported, edited, and mixed radio stories and often produced entire shows. Stephanie produced This American Life’s video project, “Videos 4 U: I Love You,” which garnered three Daytime Emmy nominations and won the 2015 Webby Award for Online Film & Video in Drama: Individual Short or Episode category. She also co-produced a video series for TAL that won an Emmy, and altogether, she has worked in audio for over a decade.
Her work has been featured in places like The New York Times and Vox, and from 2019-2020, Stephanie was a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Fellow.
Stephanie lives in Brooklyn. You can often find her in Forest Park, saving trees and harvesting acorns as one of the park’s six “Super Stewards.”
Stephanie is a storyteller at heart. As a child, Stephanie created comics, got her start in print journalism, then became fascinated with audio narratives. She’s worked as a radio producer for This American Life, Snap Judgment and freelanced for podcasts like Invisibilia, The Cut, Nancy, Reply All and 99% Invisible. At This American Life, she reported, edited, and mixed radio stories and often produced entire shows. Stephanie produced This American Life’s video project, “Videos 4 U: I Love You,” which garnered three Daytime Emmy nominations and won the 2015 Webby Award for Online Film & Video in Drama: Individual Short or Episode category. She also co-produced a video series for TAL that won an Emmy, and altogether, she has worked in audio for over a decade.
Her work has been featured in places like The New York Times and Vox, and from 2019-2020, Stephanie was a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Fellow.
Stephanie lives in Brooklyn. You can often find her in Forest Park, saving trees and harvesting acorns as one of the park’s six “Super Stewards.”
Thank you, Sponsors!
We couldn't do this without you! Join us as a sponsor this year to gain spots for your team at the conference and have tabling space to share about your organization.
Contact
If you have any questions about the conference or IOR events, please contact our Events and Partnerships Coordinator Beth Norton at [email protected] or 208.955.6533.
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Photos: Christina Birkinbine & Jessica Ferguson
A heartfelt thank you to the more than 600 attendees of the
2023 Idaho Conference on Refugees and our sponsors!
