The Coalition for
Immigrant Mental Health
Urgent Resources for Our Communities
During this time of heightened uncertainty and risk, it is more important than ever that families have immediate access to trusted resources and support. We’ve gathered key tools to help you stay informed, know your rights, and connect with community protection networks:
ICIRR Family Support Hotline
Call the ICIRR Family Support Hotline at 1-855-HELP-MY-FAMILY (1-855-435-7693) to support any suspected ICE activity in your community. This hotline is available in English, Spanish, Korean, and Polish.
Alliance Model Policy
This resource covers best practices for ICE encounters at health facilities.
Family Preparedness Plan
OCAD Chicago created a Family Preparedness Package to help families plan for an emergency, such as being detained by La Migra (ICE), getting sick, or having to leave home suddenly.
Know Your Rights: Immigrants’ Participation in Protests
This resource provides immigrants and their allies with accurate information so that immigrants can know their rights, understand the possible risks of participating in protests, and feel empowered to participate meaningfully, safely, and fully in our democracy.
ICIRR Know Your Rights
Understanding your rights can help protect you, your family, and your community.
About Us
The Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health (CIMH) is a collaborative community based and research informed initiative that is a partnership between immigrants regardless of status, mental health practitioners, community organizers, researchers, and allies. CIMH works to promote awareness of and access to culturally and linguistically appropriate mental health services through education, advocacy and resource sharing in order to improve and facilitate access to services for all immigrants.
Important Resources & Events
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CIMH Strategic Plan
CIMH is excited to share our finalized strategic plan with you all. We will be making changes to the website over the coming months to better reflect the current work of CIMH. We appreciate your patience, and please email us at info@ourcimh.org if you have any questions.
Our Vision
We envision fair, equal, linguistically, and culturally accessible mental health services free from stigma and fear for all refugees and immigrants regardless of status.
Our Mission
The figure above illustrates the stakeholders that were critical to involve in identifying the mission and vision of CIMH, as well as the key action areas that propelled the goals and activities over the last three years. Our founding coalition statements reflect the critical importance of supporting fair, equal, linguistically, and culturally accessible mental health services free from stigma and fear for all immigrants; inclusive of individuals regardless of status as well as mixed-status families.
Thus, our mission aims to “foster a collaborative, community-based and research-informed initiative that is a partnership between individuals regardless of status, mental health practitioners, community organizers, researchers, and allies.” CIMH works to promote awareness of, and access to, culturally and linguistically appropriate mental health services through education, advocacy, and resource sharing in order to improve and facilitate access to services for all immigrants.
References
Dao, Loan Thi. 2017. Out and Asian: How Undocu/DACAmented Asian Americans and
Pacific Islander Youth Navigate Dual Liminality in the Immigrant Rights Movement.
Nicholls, W. J. (2013).The DREAMers: How the undocumented youth movement transformed the immigrant rights debate. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.Retrieved from: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/analysis-after-tough-year-how-do-immigrant-activists-regroup-n832061
