InterCultural Competency Training: Focus on Human Trafficking

In the wake of the charges of Human Trafficking of Marshallese birth mothers and their babies, MEI is offering a humanities-based, InterCultural Competency Training to inform service providers, law enforcement officials, and the general public about Marshallese culture, specifically traditional Marshallese adoptions practices and family structure.

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The training will provide general information about Marshallese history and culture, matrilineality, U.S.-R.M.I. relations, including the Compact of Free Association, and the Marshallese diaspora in Arkansas. The training will include brief language instruction and an extended Q&A period for participants.​ Students will receive a certificate of completion.

Registration deadline: December 10, 2019.
Cost: $65/participant

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This course is taught by MEI Program Director Carlnis Jerry, Women’s Program Coordinator Winona Kisino, and MEI Cofounder Dr. April Brown. Cost of this course is $65/person. Cost covers all needed materials (in-class and online).

​The Marshallese Educational Initiative is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in July 2013 in northwest Arkansas that specializes in humanities programming.