For many immigrant students, issues around immigration that may be affecting their social-emotional health….UCLA provides a number of age-appropriate strategies schools and individual teachers can use to help address those challenges in the classroom and beyond.

For starters, without singling students out look for ways to check in and find one-on-one time at lunch, during group work, before or after school, or during another activity or class. Consider whether having some small group break-out conversations might also be helpful. Learn how these conversations can be fostered.

It is also important to give students strategies to express emotions and manage stress, and UCLA provides ways to help in that regard.

The Distress of Citizen-Children with Detained and Deported Parents
Findings point to the probable disruptive effects that parents’ detention and deportation can have on the psychosocial functioning of children. Even living under the cloud of the deportability of their parents has a negative effect on children. There is the constant sense of vulnerability to losing a parent and a home if parents are arrested, detained, and deported. Careful planning for the care and future needs of children should be undertaken well before a parent is deported. Learn how to do so from UCLA.

Between the lines: A mixed-methods study on the impacts of parental deportation on the health and well-being of U.S. citizen children
This study from UCLA sought to explore the impact of parental deportation on health, behavioral, economic, and academic outcomes of teenage children of deported parents, using data from the Between the Lines project, which included families exposed to parental deportation and families who had not experienced this event. Learn what children in families separated by deportation experience.

Crossing Clinical Borders: Anxiety and Depression in U.S. Citizen Children after Parental Deportation or Coercive Relocation
UCLA study results support the claim that experiencing parental detention and deportation increases the propensity to develop clinical symptoms of depression and anxiety in United States Citizen. Learn more about this, particularly with regard to United States Citizen Children from Mexico.

To access information regarding all of the above, click to visit https://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/practitioner.htm.