Promoting Wellness and Sustainability in Immigrants’ Rights Advocacy

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Type:
  Training
Duration:
57 minutes
CE credits:
1.0 CEs
Presented by:
UCLA Child & Youth Behavioral Health Center of Excellence
Featuring:
Carrie Vereide, MSW ; Cindy Franco, MSW; Gina Amato, JD, MPP; Judy Verduzco, MSW ; and Yvette Solano, MSW
Series:
Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminars
Relevant categories:
Community Engagement Community Mental Health Immigrant/Refugee Experience
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Overview

This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar will explore how immigrants’ rights advocates can promote wellness, sustainability, and resilience while responding to a rapidly changing immigration landscape. Participants will discuss recent immigration updates and consider how those changes affect clients, legal teams, and community-based advocacy work. This seminar will highlight the role of mental health professionals in immigration legal advocacy, including how interdisciplinary collaboration can better support clients facing trauma, instability, and systemic barriers. Using a trauma informed framework, the session will examine strategies for building trust, promoting client-centered services, and reducing harm in high-stress legal settings. This presentation will also address wellness and sustainability for advocacy teams, with attention to burnout prevention, reflective practice, and supportive organizational culture. Participants will learn about creative programming that integrates legal advocacy, social work principles, and wellness-centered practices to strengthen both client outcomes and team resilience.

  Keywords: advocacy, community, immigration, mental health, prevention
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Learning objectives

  • Discuss recent immigration updates and consider how those changes affect clients, legal teams, and community-based advocacy work
  • Explain how psychological health can be integrated into immigrants' rights advocacy to promote wellness and sustainability
  • Describe creative professional programming using a trauma informed framework to promote wellness for teams and clients engaging in immigration legal advocacy

Professional credit

  • This activity offers the following types of credit: APA
  • 1.0 CEs are available.
  • Additional details can be found in the activity document for this resource.

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