Empower Family Healing: Recognizing Resilience Among System-Involved Youth and Families Impacted by Immigration Trauma

Jeanette Lopez-Urbina, LCSW

Training Description

This training will explore  the impact of immigration-related trauma for Latine system-involved youth and immigrant families who may be at risk of deportations due to their status in the United States which includes attachment trauma due to forced family separations. Considering the current political climate in which policies are being enforced that are negatively impacting the undocumented community, including those in the Latine community, the presentation will discuss how this current political climate is further compounding the trauma related to immigration that is already present for this community, such as trauma they may have experienced on their journey to the U.S. as well as trauma that forced them to flee their countries of origin. In addition, this training will focus on highlighting the resilience and strengths typically found in the Latine immigrant community so that participants can build on this resilience to support well-being and…