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"It was a collective fear," says Flor Ramirez, recalling the time when her family lived with the constant threat of deportation. “My biggest fear was that my children would be separated.” As a community navigator with Arise Chicago, Flor now fights for immigrant workers’ rights, helping them understand their protections and empowering them to stand up against workplace injustices. Through her own experience, Flor provides crucial support for others facing similar fears and vulnerabilities. This story was made in partnership with palabra and was made possible with funding by the Field Foundation of Illinois. https://buff.ly/4f5Zif7

Just two days after Donald Trump was elected president in Nov. 2016, mental health advocates in Chicago gathered to discuss concerns about the election’s impact on immigrants’ mental health. Fast forward eight years, and those fears are exploding all over again. This story is part two of Silent Battles, our new reporting project focusing on the mental health of immigrant, refugee and asylum communities in the U.S with palabra. by NAHJ. This series was made possible with support from The Field Foundation of Illinois.

Earlier this month, the Chicago bureau of MindSite News and palabra released a new series, Silent Battles, a reporting project focusing on the mental health of immigrant, refugee and asylum communities in the U.S. We begin in Chicago, a city founded by a Haitian immigrant that has the fourth-largest immigrant population in the country. In this video we hear from the reporter on the project, Alma Campos, and share a clip from Reimagining Mental Health Supports for Migrant Arrivals in Chicago, an initiative that trains shelter workers and other front-line staff on trauma-informed care. This series is made possible with funding from the Field Foundation of Illinois. https://buff.ly/4dNz8vV

Comments from our founder Rob Waters were featured in this recent opinion article from The Philadelphia Inquirer. The piece takes a look at Donald Trump’s stigmatizing language about mental illness throughout his campaign. “People with mental health conditions have been campaigning for years against the social stigma directed against them — and in recent years have made a lot of progress. Donald Trump seems to be on a one-man campaign to bring back that kind of stigma.” - Rob Waters, MindSite News founder

It has been a privilege to share stories like Maria Suares' and partner with palabra. by NAHJ on the series Silent Battles, which shines a light on immigrant mental health. Many who come to the United States have experienced trauma and often struggle to find help once here. Make sure to follow Maria Suares and her family and other migrants through their journey with the city of Chicago, community groups, and others as they try to work and find a safe haven in their new country in the first part of the Silent Battles series. This series was made possible with funding from The Field Foundation of Illinois. https://lnkd.in/gwAgsCa8

The second annual Treatment not Trauma summit was something of a victory celebration. Chicago’s mayor Brandon Johnson has committed to introducing mental health services into a vaccine clinic in Pilsen, a majority Latino neighborhood by the end of October, and to reopen the shuttered community mental health center in Roseland, a majority Black neighborhood on the South Side by the end of the year. At the end of September, police officers and the fire department are to be phased out of the CARE crisis response teams. “This is a huge triumph because in a time where we have been defunding public care, we were able to come back, create those public jobs and create spaces for care where it doesn’t matter if you have documents, doesn’t matter if you have insurance, it doesn’t matter if you can afford it, you’re going to be able to come in and get the care that you need,” Alderwoman Rodriguez-Sanchez told MindSite News at the summit. (Fantastic reporting from Sela Breen)

"I could NOT focus. I would catch myself looking around and not on the road, messing with the radio, just doing anything but paying attention to the road ahead of me." In this first person story, we hear from Hannah Henderson and how medication helped her to pay attention to the road while driving. This story is part of a package by Youthcast Media Group.

I was pleased to be asked by Philly Inquirer national columnist Will Bunch to comment on how the movement to eradicate mental health stigma is being set back by Donald Trump. Here's what I told him: “People with mental health conditions have been campaigning for years against the social stigma directed against them — and in recent years have made a lot of progress. Donald Trump seems to be on a one-man campaign to bring back that kind of stigma.”  Read Will's terrific column here: https://lnkd.in/g8Vz5r6t #stopstigmatogether #mentalhealthamerica #nami

Car crashes are the leading cause of death for teens, who crash vehicles at a higher rate of any age group. But hidden within the numbers is a critical but often overlooked subgroup: Teens with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) – who are more than twice as likely to be involved in multiple car crashes.