This webinar will be provided in Spanish with simultaneous interpretation into English.
Discussing complex and sensitive topics like immigration with children can be a challenging but essential conversation, especially in families and communities directly impacted by immigration-related challenges. This webinar panel brings together subject matter experts to explore ways to have these conversations in an age-appropriate and meaningful way.
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to…
- Understand the emotional and psychological impact of current immigration challenges on children and families.
- Identify protective factors and support at the individual, family, and community levels that can help support parents and children facing immigration-related challenges.
- Describe practical strategies that parents, educators, and clinicians can use to have age-appropriate conversations to support children and families through immigration-related challenges.
Presenters
Alma
Galván
MHC
Director of Community Engagement and Worker Training
Migrant Clinicians Network
Alma Galván, MHC (she/her/ella), is the Director of Community Engagement and Worker Training with MCN. Bicultural and bilingual, Galván has worked for more than three decades to improve the health of communities disadvantaged by structural inequities in the United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Latin America. Her work has focused on a broad range of public health topics including infectious diseases, environmental health and justice, climate justice, worker health and safety, drug prevention, water and sanitation, cultural competency, and community development water and sanitation. She has worked with community-based organizations and international agencies such as the Pan American Health Organization. At Migrant Clinicians Network, she fosters innovative and participatory approaches to building capacity among immigrant and migrant communities and other underserved populations. She contributes to the development, implementation, and evaluation of multiple projects. Galván has extensive expertise in providing technical assistance and developing culturally contextual curricula and educational materials for Limited English Proficiency and low-literacy adult learners, community health workers, health professionals, health educators, and clinicians. Her unique approach to adult learning and expansive expertise in community-based approaches to health promotion helped hundreds of community health workers, clinicians and health department personnel bring culturally contextual COVID-19 resources and strategies to immigrant and migrant communities in order to promote vaccination and address mis/disinformation. Galván has worked extensively with MCN partners, community-based organizations, health agencies, and local and state health departments promoting health equity through language access and cultural competency. Galván has a strong health and social science background and has designed, implemented, and assessed programs for over 30 years. Galván is bilingual in English and Spanish. She is passionate and committed to addressing health inequities and lessening disparities. In her free time, Galván spends time with her family, and enjoys movies, reading, and learning about different cultures.
Pamela
Secada-Sayles
MPH
Senior Program Manager, Mental Health and Well-Being
Migrant Clinicians Network
Pamela Secada-Sayles, MPH (she/her/ella) is a Peruvian immigrant with ancestral roots to the people of present-day China, Spain, and Italy. She received her Master's in Public Health: Healthcare Policy and Management at University of California, Los Angeles and her Bachelor’s in Anthropology and Chicana/o Studies from California State University, Fullerton. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the Doctor of Education, Organizational Change and Leadership program at the University of Southern California. Her dissertation focus is on examining organizational and leadership practices that have impacted employee wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Secada-Sayles is passionate about advancing health equity and eliminating health disparities. Her professional career has focused on a wide range of health issues including substance use interventions, review of cultural competency curriculum, community health worker training, and health workforce diversity through educational equity. Secada-Sayles lives in Los Angeles, California with her partner, two stepsons, and their rescue Pitbull, Rocco. When she is not at work or school, she enjoys excessive amounts of sleep, supporting her local dog rescues, watching true crime shows, embarking on new culinary adventures in Los Angeles, laughing, and spending time with her family and friends.
Patricia Navarro is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Long Beach, California and has been a Witness to Witness associate since 2020. Patricia was born in Mexico and immigrated to the United States at the age of 12. She is fluent in both English and Spanish, possessing bilingual and bicultural capabilities. Stemming from her Latino background, she finds it highly meaningful to assist the community in recognizing the value of mental health services. Patricia collaborates with families, adults, couples, and children, specializing in areas such as relationship conflicts, anger management, ADHD, anxiety, mood disorders, multicultural concerns, parenting, premarital counseling, grief, and loss. Prior to embarking on her journey as a therapist, Patricia worked in the education sector as a School Psychologist.
A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dr. Mariela Shibley immigrated to the United States in 1991. She received her professional training from the University of California, Los Angeles, and the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University, San Diego. She completed post-doctoral training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center, where she graduated from the five-year integrated child and adult psychoanalytic program. In addition, she has undergone extensive training in forensic psychology, developing a specialty in immigration evaluations. She also conducts psychological evaluations for criminal defense cases (competency and mitigation for sentencing), C&P examinations for the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs, fitness for duty evaluations, and pre-adoption assessments, among others. After working in various mental health settings throughout San Diego, providing inpatient and outpatient mental health services, Dr. Shibley established Shibley Psychology in 2010. She works with adult individuals, couples, and families and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. Within her practice, she has trained and supervised numerous mental health professionals. In 2020, she founded PsychEvalCoach, an online training program specializing in immigration evaluations. She is also the author of Conducting Immigration Evaluations: A Practical Guide for Mental Health Professionals, published by Routledge in 2022.
Dr. Rosado is a Clinical Associate Professor and Regional Director at the Florida State University Isabel Collier Read Medical Campus in Immokalee, Florida. He also serves as a psychologist at a Federally Qualified Health Center primarily treating children of Latino migrant farmworking families. Dr. Rosado is also the Director for the FSU Center for Child Stress & Health – a partner in SAMHSA’S National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Dr. Rosado holds a PhD degree from The Florida State University in Counseling Psychology and Human Systems. During his doctoral education, he interned at the Yale University Medical School, where he completed a pre-doctoral Internship training program in Clinical and Community Psychology. He currently leads several intervention programs to address toxic stress and early childhood trauma in children from migrant farmworking families.