Upcoming Immigration Dialogue + New October Tele-Mental Health Training
Next week, our team is looking forward to hosting our first ever Immigration Dialogue, co-hosted with representatives from the RAICES Family Detention Team. In this webinar, we will be talking about the current state of immigrant family detention in the U.S. and discuss what we can do as a community to support asylum-seekers. These dialogues will feature a different set of speakers and will be hosted every third Tuesday of the month. There's still time to register if you're interested in attending!
Because of the demand for our free trainings, we’ve begun accepting suggested donations of $10 per training. We hope that by raising some money we can potentially offer these sessions more frequently. There is still time to donate funding to our upcoming Immigration Dialogue as well! To learn more about sponsorship, visit the Donate page on our website.
We're excited to share with you several other training and volunteer opportunities happening in September and October, including a Conducting Tele-Mental Health Assessments for Immigration Cases training on October 7th. Read on to discover how you can get involved in our upcoming work.
We hope to (virtually) see you soon!
Sincerely,
Ana Vidina Hernández,
Girasol Program Coordinator
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Learn More About Girasol with Meet Girasol Mondays!
Join Girasol's program coordinator, Ana Hernández, on the second Monday of September and November, 2020. You will learn more about our work and the ways you can support our vision of creating a global community that prioritizes the health and wellbeing of all immigrant families.
Date & Time:
- Monday September 14th from 12-1pm
- Monday November 9th from 12-1pm
Audience: Anyone interested in learning more about our program!
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We will be regularly offering our trainings for professionals virtually for the next several months. Please join us! They're interactive and will provide you with more tools to work with immigrant families in the midst of social distancing.
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Trauma-Informed Work with Mixed Status Families in the Context of COVID-19
Audience: All professionals and students working with mixed-status families
Date & Time: Wednesday October 21st from 12pm-2pm
Cost: Suggested donation of $10
CEUs: 2.0 CEUs available
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The Mental Health Collaborative brings together a diverse group of mental health professionals. We provide trainings on writing letters of support and serving as expert witnesses for immigration relief cases. The aim of this project is to create a network of trained professionals able to provide expertise for the cases of individuals and families seeking asylum, U visas, and T visas. If you are interested in joining the collaborative, you must attend one of these trainings!
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Conducting Tele-Mental Health Assessments for Immigration Cases
Date & Time: October 7th, 2020 from 12pm-2pm
Audience: Mental health professionals and students studying to become mental health professionals
CEUs: 2.0 CEUs available
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Mental Health Collaborative Monthly Consultation Groups
A free monthly consultation support group for Girasol's Mental Health Collaborative members. These groups are available to anyone in our collaborative regardless of whether or not you are currently working on a case
Date & Time: They vary, and you can come to as many as you want! We'll be hosting daytime and post-work meetings once a month.
- Wednesday August 26, 5:30-6:30pm
- Friday September 25, 10-11am
- Wednesday October 28, 5:30-6:30pm
- Friday December 4, 10-11am
Audience: Members of the Mental Health Collaborative
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The Social Work Detention Response Team is a group of interdisciplinary teams of social work and law students orient migrants to the credible fear interview and asylum system, assist in their preparation for the interview, and provide emotional support to women and children undergoing this process. The team also goes on two trips to the border yearly to assist asylum-seekers at the Texas-Mexico border. While we cannot go to the border or to detention centers currently, we do have current online volunteer opportunities, see below:
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New Opportunity!
Immigration Dialogue: Impacts of Immigrant Family Detention on Mental Health and Wellbeing
Starting in September, we will begin hosting Immigration Dialogues on the third Tuesday of each month. These gatherings will be a virtual space for students, mental health professionals, and community members to join together to learn more about the current state of immigrant family detention in the U.S. and discuss what we can do as a community to support asylum-seekers.
To sponsor a dialogue, you can donate through our website! Every donation helps us continue this important work and support the efforts of our amazing community partners.
Date & Time: Tuesday September 15 5:30-7:00pm
Cost: Suggested donation of $10
Audience: Social work students, law students, other students, mental health professionals, and community members
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Girasol’s Navegando Austin website compiles resources to the undocumented community in Austin, TX with the aim of expanding to other areas in the state. We need volunteers to help us at this time to make sure this website reflects all recent updates about the pandemic, federal public charge rules, and resources available to the community.
Interested in helping us update the Navegando Austin website? We'd love your help! Reach out to us at girasoltexas@gmail.com for more info.
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Thank You To Our Donors!
Your contributions are critical to the success of our program. When you donate to Girasol Texas, you are committing to supporting justice and well-being for our immigrant communities. Thank you to the following donors for supporting our mission!
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Anya Tyson
Daniel Hogan
Julie A. Macrae
Kathleen Wendland
Margaret Everhart
Kaitlyn C. Doerge
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Rebecca Spiegel
Samantha Labue
Tucker Eason
Macy Margolin
Jo Marie Hogan
Polly C. Sinclair
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