Session 2: Fronterismo - Supporting Transborder School Mental Health
When: Monday, May 17, 3-5 p.m. PT (view your time zone)
(Mon.) 6-8 p.m. ET / 3-5 p.m. PT / 12-2 p.m. HT / 11 a.m.-1 p.m. American Samoa
(Tues.) 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Marshall Islands / 9-11 a.m. Pohnpei, Kosrae / 8-10 a.m. Guam, Chuuk, Yap, Northern Mariana Islands / 7-9 a.m. Palau
Faculty: Claudia Gonzalez & Alicia Arambula
The number of transborder students—students that regularly cross land borders to access an education in the United States—is difficult to capture, but with 1,954 miles of borderland between the United States and Mexico, this number is easily in the thousands. Transborder students, like immigrant children, often live in the shadows. Their lives are complex, and navigating some of the busiest ports of entry in the world while balancing not being seen and at the same time being successful in school, can be tolling. This webinar addresses common school mental health challenges and celebrations of immigrant, mixed status, and transborder students. Together, we explore how to develop environments in schools that are trauma sensitive and reinforce sustainable systems of support via a cultural lens of the transborder and immigrant experience, while taking into consideration the challenges that have been exacerbated through COVID-19 and distance learning.
To deepen our awareness about (im)migrant student experiences, we:
Become more familiar with transborder student experiences.
Explore the policies that impact our student population and the resources available to support us.
Gain practical information that might increase confidence to provide support to transborder students and their families (including how MTSS might be adapted to border considerations).
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