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* Lab data as of 2/27/25. 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 2024
(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”
In the News
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
Destigmatizing Mental Health Through YouTube
10/30/23
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
Forensic medical evaluators for asylum seekers need more support
12/22/22