Field Notes: Resources to Cultivate & Motivate
Teachings and tips for anyone to reference during difficult times, stressful workdays, and moments when manifesting your true self.
What should not surprise us about refugee situations
Community tension, family violence, and grief and fear among children and parents are common in refugee situations. We should not be surprised, but rather proactive to prevent, to ease refugees lives.
Advanced asylum considerations
For many asylum seekers, having a psychological evaluation that shows the effects of persecution and migration on mental and emotional health can be useful in the legal proceedings for asylum. Feel free to watch my presentation to UCSF’s Health and Human Rights Initiative conference.
The hidden human trafficking crisis of the pandemic
Children are being exploited every day for sex and labor, and trafficking is worsening during the prolonged pandemic.
Refugees and forcibly displaced children during the COVID-19 pandemic
There are an unprecedented number of refugees, forcibly displaced children, and migrants globally - how are they managing the mental health and social stressors during the pandemic?
Stop abusing immigrant children and their families crossing our border
Expelling children to violent situations, detaining children with parents in filthy conditions without the capacity for hygiene, or separating children from parents, are not suitable solutions during the COVID-19 crisis.
Child soldiers and our moral failing
mental health and policies to help former child soldiers
Sexual violence after disasters is common - anticipate and protect
Anticipate and respond to sexual violence after major natural disasters