Address­ing the Mental Health Needs of Young Immigrants

The Casey Foun­da­tion’s Alli­son Holmes hosted a dis­cus­sion with staff - as well as a young par­tic­i­pant - from Iden­ti­ty, Inc., which cre­ates oppor­tu­ni­ties for Lati­no and oth­er under­served youth in Mont­gomery Coun­ty, Mary­land. Speak­ers include:
● Diego Uribu­ru found­ed Iden­ti­ty in 1998, aid­ing immi­grant youth. Beyond his role as exec­u­tive direc­tor, he active­ly con­tributes to local equi­ty dis­cus­sions, help­ing estab­lish­ing the Black and Brown Coali­tion for Edu­ca­tion­al Equi­ty and Excel­lence. He’s involved in mul­ti­ple com­mit­tees and boards, includ­ing Mont­gomery Mov­ing For­ward and the Lati­no Health Steer­ing Com­mit­tee. Before Iden­ti­ty, Uribu­ru worked as a psy­chother­a­pist, spe­cial­iz­ing in the Lati­no population.
● As a pro­gram direc­tor at Iden­ti­ty, Car­olyn Cama­cho leads five high-school-based Well­ness Cen­ters and man­ages com­mu­ni­ty men­tal health ini­tia­tives, includ­ing non-clin­i­cal emo­tion­al sup­port groups and fam­i­ly strength­en­ing pro­grams. She also spear­heads the fam­i­ly reuni­fi­ca­tion pro­gram. Cama­cho is a fre­quent pre­sen­ter on trau­ma-informed pos­i­tive youth devel­op­ment and restora­tive prac­tices, par­tic­u­lar­ly con­cern­ing immi­grant youth and fam­i­lies. Addi­tion­al­ly, she over­sees Iden­ti­ty’s part­ner­ships with research insti­tu­tions like the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mary­land School of Pub­lic Health and Child Trends.
● Enrique Mejia, an 11th-grade stu­dent at Wheaton High School, arrived in the Unit­ed States in 2019 with aspi­ra­tions for a bright future. He became involved with the Well­ness Cen­ter in 2021 and par­tic­i­pat­ed in Knight Time. Seek­ing greater involve­ment, he engaged in var­i­ous men­tal health groups, fam­i­ly reuni­fi­ca­tion pro­grams and the New­com­ers Sum­mit in 2022 and 2023. Serv­ing as a peer leader has enabled Enrique to con­tin­ue his per­son­al growth and inspire fel­low Lati­no stu­dents to strive for aca­d­e­m­ic excellence.
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