The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Migration and Refugee Services (MRS), holds a contract from the federal government to help refugee and undocumented alien children as they resettle in the United States. This is called the reunification process, as it reunites children with members of their family in most cases. The work is done by Catholic Charities around the country. MRS supervises and coordinates the local agencies.

In developing online training for the agency case managers, both the MRS staff and our team wanted to make sure we kept the children and their needs as the central focus of the e-learning. We felt we needed some way to get learners interested in the material and make an emotional connection to their work.

We decided to create an animation that gives an overview of the purpose of the reunification process, emphasizing the needs of the children.

A demonstration version of this program is available at http://www.karmalearn.com/refugeedemo/