This webpage consolidates resources from CLASP and partners on immigrant mental health in the U.S. These include fact sheets, reports, and resources for advocates, immigrants, practitioners, and policymakers.

Trainings

Free Online Course: Reimagining Mental Health Supports for Migrant Arrivals

• • Download in English
  • Leen en Espanol

This training is specifically designed for non-mental health providers, including front-line workers such as migrant shelter staff (program managers, residential aides, case managers), community health workers/promotors, and staff from community-based organizations working with new arrivals. The course focuses on foundational mental health intervention strategies using a trauma informed lens and healing centered approach. >> Registere here.

Apps, Toolkits, Resources

• Taking Action to Break Language Barriers in Information about Substance Use Disorders
• What to Do When You’ve Been Hurt…Even When Your Community Expects You to Stay Silent
• La CLAve Project: app to help communities discuss serious mental illnesses
• Culturally Competent Mental Health Resources for Sikh Americans

Provider and Peer Support Directories

• Directory of Peer Respites
• Refugee and Immigrant Mental Health Coalition of Ohio
• Asian American Peer Counseling Resource List
• Inclusive Therapists
• Anise Health Website: culturally sensitive therapy and coaching program

Helplines and Online Therapy Resources

• Thriving Harnesses Respect, Inclusion, and Vested Empathy (THRIVE) Lifeline
• Desi LGBTQ+ Helpline for South Asians
• Naseeha Mental Health
• Sikh Family Center: Mental Health Triage

Reports, Infographics, and Publications

• Policy Framework for Immigrant Mental Health (CLASP)
• The Right To Heal: Southeast Asian American Mental Health in California (SEARAC)
• Immigrant Families Need Nuanced, Creative Approaches to Mental Health (CLASP)
• Core Principles to Reframe Mental and Behavioral Health Policy (CLASP)
• Core Principles to Reframe Mental and Behavioral Health Policy: Infographic (CLASP)
• Psychological Science and Immigration Today (APA)

Language Directory

• The Positive Lexicography Project

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