Volunteer-led support groups provide mental health care to Chicago migrants
Chicago-area mental health professionals are teaching volunteers how to spot the signs of trauma and support asylum seekers.
In a state with one of the greatest shortages of mental health care workers in the country, new arrivals to the city face even greater barriers to access. This is because migrants may be disconnected from their families and support systems, lack a job or permanent address or have language or cultural barriers that keep them from seeing a therapist or social worker.
Reset learns more about the need for mental health care in the city’s migrant shelters.
GUESTS: Kristen Schorsch, WBEZ public health and county government reporter
Laura Pappa, director of behavioral health education at Northwestern Family Medicine and a licensed psychologist at Erie Family Health
Veronica Armenta-Sanchez, licensed social worker
Aimee Hilado, assistant professor at UChicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice and chair of the Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health
Rebecca Ford-Paz, associate professor at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, clinical child psychologist at Lurie Children’s Hospital and leader of the Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health
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Volunteer-led support groups provide mental health care to Chicago migrants
Chicago-area mental health professionals are teaching volunteers how to spot the signs of trauma and support asylum seekers.
In a state with one of the greatest shortages of mental health care workers in the country, new arrivals to the city face even greater barriers to access. This is because migrants may be disconnected from their families and support systems, lack a job or permanent address or have language or cultural barriers that keep them from seeing a therapist or social worker.
Reset learns more about the need for mental health care in the city’s migrant shelters.
GUESTS: Kristen Schorsch, WBEZ public health and county government reporter
Laura Pappa, director of behavioral health education at Northwestern Family Medicine and a licensed psychologist at Erie Family Health
Veronica Armenta-Sanchez, licensed social worker
Aimee Hilado, assistant professor at UChicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice and chair of the Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health
Rebecca Ford-Paz, associate professor at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, clinical child psychologist at Lurie Children’s Hospital and leader of the Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health