Addressing the health and mental health needs of unaccompanied immigrant youth through an innovative school-based health center model: Successes and challenges

What Social Work Educators and Practitioners Need to Know on Immigrants’ Health Care: a Systematic Review

“…For example, studies conducted by [7,8] paid attention to all three health topics. Besides, studies conducted by [16,17] focused on physical health care and mental health issues. In addition, studies conducted by [18][19][20] focused on mental health issues and health care utilization.…”

“…Of the included studies, 19% (n = 9) were included in this review used qualitative methods. These nine qualitative studies [17,18,[24][25][26][27][28][29][30] used individual interviews or focus groups as the primary data collection methods to explore immigrants' experiences with health care. Qualitative methods are more appropriate in understanding subjective meanings of a phenomenon, providing in depth information that quantitative methods often fail to capture.…”

“…In this review, the majority of studies (n = 36; 77%) focused on adults and older immigrant, while only 26% of studies (n = 12) were about children in immigrant families. Among these studies, 5 studies [17,18,27,32,33] focused on the children immigrants themselves, and the rest (n = 7) focused on children in immigrant families. A growing concern considering that the number of children in immigrant families grew quickly, and they became more ethnically diverse [34].…”

“Se extraña todo:” Family separation and reunification experiences among unaccompanied adolescent migrants from Central America

“…Prevention programming should be available for all newcomer immigrant youth, particularly for UAMs arriving from Central American countries, due to the myriad contextual risk factors and stressors that make them at high risk for need to access specialty mental health care. Schools may be the appropriate settings as they are often conceptualized as the frontline for programming to reduce health disparities among high‐risk youth (Martinez et al., 2020; Schapiro, Gutierrez, Blackshaw, & Chen, 2018). Additionally, many youth who migrate from Central American countries qualify for international protection according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR, 2014).…”

Discursive Leadership: Exploring the "Black Box" Challenge in Transcultural Leadership Studies

“…Despite the sharp increase in immigration to the U.S. over the past two decades, reported as approximately 50%, from 30 to 45 million between 2000 and 2018 (https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/immigrant-population-overtime?width=1000&height=850&iframe=true), there is relatively little scholarly research examining the challenges that immigrants face integrating themselves successfully into U.S. workplaces. Indeed, per multiple keyword searches including the terms "immigrant/challenges/workplace/U.S.," the majority of recent scholarly research and reporting on immigrant integration into various sectors of U.S. society understandably focuses on Hispanic populations and the impacts their increasing presence in the U.S. has on them (Schapiro et al, 2018), K-12 schools , medical (Singer & Tummala-Narra, 2013), and social services contexts (Pine & Drachman, 2005;Lin et al, 2018). While these are undoubtedly important issues where ongoing academic research is needed, a noticeably large gap exists as it relates to non-Hispanic immigrants and more professionalized sectors such as postsecondary education workplaces.…”