Edición Semanaria: Network of Therapists Helps Migrants and Activists with Mental Health Problems
This story was produced as a larger project by Valeria Fernandez for the 2020 National Fellowship, which focuses on how indigenous, immigrant communities and people of color have been organizing before and during the pandemic in communities of care to find support and healing.
Her other stories include:
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December 11, 2020
Network of Therapists Helps Migrants and Activists with Mental Health Problems - Immigration restrictions and hostile rhetoric against the undocumented have had a heavy emotional toll, not only for migrant families, but also for the activists who advocate for them. To support both affected groups, an organization in Arizona has urgently mobilized its mental health counselors. Using technology made mandatory due to pandemic restrictions, the new aid network is helping heal the trauma of organizers and immigrants under stress by reinforcing the power of their culture and identity. Valeria Fernández brings details from Phoenix.
CHJ · Edición Semanaria: Network of Therapists Helps Migrants and Activists with Mental Health Problems
[This story was originally published by Radio Bilingüe.]