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DATE AND TIME: April 13th – 7:30 - 8:45 pm
OVERVIEW:
Immigrant children’s physical and mental health is threatened by current immigration enforcement policies. Children stay home from school, miss medical appointments, experience loss of their parents to immigration detention and deportation, and some children are themselves detained and deported. How can we as pediatricians support our immigrant patients and families? This first event of a series of webinars begins with pragmatic options.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Understand strategies within healthcare systems for mitigating fear and distrust to protect care access during periods of heightened immigration enforcement.
- Learn for which purposes a medical letter for a parent can be useful. Learn elements and phrasing of a useful letter.
- Describe and use the “Family Preparedness Plan,” an interdisciplinary, developmentally, trauma- and diversity-informed tool that aims to increase safety, affect regulation, empowerment, and hope in immigrant families, by enabling families to make arrangements for the possibility of separation through detention or deportation of a parent.
SPEAKERS:
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Fiona Danaher, MD, MPH, FAAP founded and directs the Center for Immigrant Health at MGBfChildren. She is a primary care pediatrician at MGH Chelsea.
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Julia Koehler, MD FAAP is the Chair of the MCAAP Immigrant Health Special Interest Group. She is a Pediatric Infectious Disease clinician at Boston Children’s Hospital.
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Ivys Fernández-Pastrana, JD is the Program Manager at the Center for Excellence in Immigrant and Early Childhood Mental Health at Boston Medical Center. Ivys is the co-creator of the Family Preparedness Plan. She is a lawyer with rich experience accompanying and supporting mixed-status families in the medical system.
For more information, please contact Cathleen Haggerty at chaggerty@mcaap.org.
To register, click here.
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