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* Lab data as of 5/23/25. Lab Funds reflect awards received by the Lab Director/PI during the FY2022-2025 period to fund research and workforce development initiatives.
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Models For Practice with Immigrants and Refugees
Aimee Hilado - Marta Lundy (Eds.)
This book examines best practices with global communities across scale and across needs.
Citation: Hilado, A., & Lundy, M. (Eds.). (2017). Models for practice with immigrants and refugees: Collaboration, cultural awareness, and integrative theory. Sage Publications.
Refugee Mental Health
Jamie D. Aten - Jenny Hwang
Contributions by Aimee Hilado
This book introduces both practice-oriented and applicable interventions alongside ecological frameworks of understanding refugee communities.
Citation: Aten, J. D., & Hwang, J. E. (2021). Refugee mental health (pp. xii-337). American Psychological Association.
Building Resilience Through Community Systems: An Ecological Frame for Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences
Suzette Fromm-Reed - Judith Kent (Eds.)
Contribution by Aimee Hilado
Routledge Publications, Trauma Series: Fall 2025
(Chapter 9) “The impact of trauma during early childhood: Promoting infant-early childhood mental health, education outcomes, community resilience for infants, toddlers and their families”
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Expert says threats of militarization and immigration enforcement fuel anxieties
10/7/25
A daughter becomes a lifeline for her parents as immigration enforcement intensifies in Chicago
9/28/25
Some immigrants in Chicago now fear ICE more than gunfire.
9/16/25
Organizers of El Grito Chicago postpone the Mexican Independence Day festival as city braces for increased immigration enforcement.
9/4/25
On Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day, migrant students are in shadow of deportation in Chicago.
1/20/25
Despite large influx, migrant shelters in Chicago see few DCFS investigations.
12/1/2024
Bed supply should remain constant as city seeks to merge homeless migrant shelter systems social service leaders say.
9/19/24
Democrats expect Republican leaders to send more buses of migrants to Chicago before the DNC
7/25/24
Miscommunication in migrant shelters leads to confusion and worry
5/18/24
Can Chicago Manage Its Migrant Crisis?
4/3/24
Social workers who help newly arriving migrants hope for empowerment, better support
3/11/24
This emerging program in Chicago is pioneering a more affordable way to improve mental health among migrants
3/2/24
They came here for a new life. Now they're trapped in O'Hare.
2/10/24
For Chicago's new migrants, informal support groups help ease the pain and trauma
1/31/24
Volunteer-led support groups provide mental health care to Chicago migrants
12/18/23
City Club of Chicago: Understanding and Navigating Chicago’s Migrant Situation
10/20/23
Children in the crisis: CPS prepares to welcome migrants who will need much more than schooling to heal from trauma
8/19/23
Chicago migrants faces challenges accessing mental health care
1/30/23
Chicago migrant shelter death: mental health challenges asylum-seekers face
1/27/23
Migrants awaiting shelter placements as city seeks solutions
1/1/23