Promoting the Health and Well-Being of Children in Immigrant Families in the Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery Efforts: A Joint Workshop

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Promoting the Health and Well-Being of Children in Immigrant Families in the Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery Efforts, a workshop jointly hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Forum for Children's Well-Being and the Brandeis University Institute for Child, Youth, and Family Policy on April 21, 2021, explored the research evidence on the access immigrant families have to U.S. social programs and its effects on children's mental, emotional, behavioral, and physical well-being. During this workshop, three speakers discussed the negative health impacts of current social policies on children, and highlighted promising public policy approaches to mitigate these impacts and promote children's well-being. This Proceedings of a Workshop-in Brief provides a high-level summary of the topics addressed in the workshop and policy options presented by the speakers that could better support children in immigrant families.

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8 pages · 8.5 x 11 ·
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-08676-0
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/26263

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Promoting the Health and Well-Being of Children in Immigrant Families: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

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Dolores Acevedo-Garcia

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Ph.D., MPA-URP is the Samuel F. and Rose B. Gingold Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, and Director of the Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University. Her research focuses on the social determinants of racial/ethnic inequities in health; the role of social policies in reducing those inequities; and the health and wellbeing of children with special needs. She is Project Director for diversitydatakids.org, a comprehensive research program and indicator database on child wellbeing and opportunity by race/ethnicity across multiple sectors (e.g., education, health, neighborhoods) and geographies, funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Acevedo-Garcia is an investigator and member of the Steering Committee on the Housing and Children’s Healthy Development Study funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the MacArthur Foundation. She was a member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on How Housing Matters for Families and Children (2009-2014). Her professional activities include invited presentations at the White House Open Opportunity Project (2016), the National Conference on Housing Mobility (2015, 2012, 2010), the HUD/MacArthur Foundation “How Housing Matters” Conference (2011, 2012), and the White House conference on the Future of Rental Housing Policy (2010). She served on two national expert panels convened by the Centers for Disease Control (Housing and Health, and Social Determinants of Health), and on the expert panel for the award-winning PBS documentary series “Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making us Sick?” She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Problems, and Cityscape. Dr. Acevedo-Garcia received her B.A. in public administration from El Colegio de Mexico (Mexico City), and her MPA-URP and Ph.D. in Public Policy with a concentration in Demography from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Sandra Barrueco

Sandra Barrueco, Ph.D., is an associate professor and director of clinical training at Catholic University of America. Her research program utilizes a prevention science framework to examine and address developmental and mental health difficulties among language-minority, immigrant, and migrant children. She is currently co-leading a nationally-representative study of migrant and seasonal head start with over 1400 participants that is focused on infants, toddlers, preschoolers and their agricultural families. At Catholic University, she is a faculty member of the Children, Families, and Cultures focus within the Clinical Psychology program. She serves as director of Latin American and Latino Studies and a fellow of the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies. Further, she has been engaged in the local and national communities, including D.C. Bilingual Charter School, the Advisory Committee of the American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Immigration, the federal Expert Panel on Research Methods with Young Dual Language Learners, and the Policy and Communications Committee of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). She is a licensed clinical psychologist in Maryland and the District of Columbia. She focused on the identification and prevention of developmental and mental health difficulties as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neuropsychology at Kennedy Krieger Institute. She also completed a research postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she designed and conducted prevention and intervention science investigations. More recently, she participated in a faculty fellowship in the National Center for Research on Early Childhood Education at the University of Virginia. She obtained her doctorate at the University of Denver in clinical child psychology with an emphasis in cognitive neuroscience and an internship at Children’s National Medical Center in clinical child and pediatric psychology.

Emily Ruskin

Emily Ruskin is the Senior Policy Analyst for the Immigration Policy Project at UnidosUS (formerly National Council of La Raza), where she leads a research agenda in support of UnidosUS’ federal advocacy, with particular focus on child well-being and racial equity. Prior to joining UnidosUS, Emily served as a policy fellow in the New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs where she coordinated global cities' advocacy around the UN Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees. Before that, Emily worked internationally on child welfare issues. Emily is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and holds an MPA from Princeton’s School of Policy and International Affairs (2017).

Promoting the Health and Well-Being of Children in Immigrant Families in the Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery Efforts: A Joint Workshop

April 21, 2021

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (EDT)

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The Forum for Children’s Well-Being will host a virtual public workshop on April 21, 2021. This joint workshop with the Brandeis University Institute for Child, Youth, and Family will explore the research evidence on immigrant families' access to U.S. social programs and its effects on children's mental, emotional, behavioral, and physical well-being. During this 90 minute workshop, panelists will discuss the negative physical, cognitive, and behavioral health impacts of current immigration policies on children; and highlight promising public policy approaches that can mitigate these impacts and promote healthy childhood.

During the workshop, please submit your questions to Erin Kellogg (ekellogg@nas.edu) or tweet @lemenestrels.

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