Latino immigrant children's health: Effects of sociodemographic variables and of a preventive intervention program.
For
Latino immigrant children segregation by race and poverty has intensified over the last three decades.
Not exact matches
They point to her 2 - 1 margin with
Latinos over Obama in the 2008 primary and the latest party platform, which calls for a path to citizenship «for law - abiding families who are here,» the end of immigration raids against
children and families, due process for «those fleeing violence in Central America,» and to rescind statutory bans on
immigrants who modify their status in the country.
The media has been reporting extensively on what the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance project has dubbed the «Trump Effect»: the fear and anxiety which the President - elect's campaign rhetoric - and his policy pronouncements, especially regarding
immigrants and Muslims - appears to be engendering among
Latino, Hispanic, African - American, and Muslim
children,
immigrant children, and
children of
immigrants, and the bullying, intimidation, slurs, and threats which appear to be increasingly directed at them.
Immigrant Latino Children Face More Poverty Than U.S. Born but Fewer Traditional Measures of Adverse Childhood Experiences
The Dream Act — which provides state tuition assistance to the
children of undocumented
immigrants — wasn't included following a public back and forth with
Latino members of the Legislature.
The Dream Act would provide TAP funds to allow the
children of undocumented
immigrants to attend college — a sought - after provision for those lawmakers who represent
Latino communities.
Latino children in
immigrant families were more likely than their peers in non-
immigrant families to receive preventive dental care (72 % and 61 %, respectively, in 2010).
I'm thinking of the many dozens of
Latino immigrant parents we worked with in the Murphy School District in Phoenix who were dismayed to learn their district was chronically failing to educate their
children.
This has often been the case with magnet schools and is now happening with language immersion programs originally geared toward helping
Latino and other
children from
immigrant households improve their English fluency.
While the linguistic mismatch might generate obstacles in the educational process of
Latino / a students, research related to the achievement of
immigrant students has also established that
immigrant parents promote academic achievement of their
children.
The report documents
Latino, African American, and Muslim
children, and
children of
immigrants, terrified and fighting with peers; reporting slurs and threats from peers that Trump would hurt or kill their families; and asking teachers whether their entire families (even as American citizens) would be deported, walled off or worse by Trump.
«
Latino US - Citizen
Children of
Immigrants: A Generation at High Risk.»
That there are more
Latino children in public schools now than at the time George W. Bush signed No
Child into law, and yet, are improving academically proves the too - many -
immigrant - and - minority
children argument to be pure sophistry.
Some will claim that demographic changes — most - notably the growth in the percentage of poor,
Latino, and
immigrant children — is the culprit.
Most urban Catholic schools were originally built to educate the
children of European
immigrants; today, they mostly serve poor African American and
Latino students.
The Bridging Cultures Project was designed to train teachers at the preschool and elementary level to become aware of the collectivistic or familistic cultural orientation that
children from
Latino immigrant families with roots in Mexico or Central America bring with them from home into their school environments.
-- Gay Men Lesbians Bisexuals Transgender Adolescents Transgender Men Transgender Women Genderqueer / Non-Binary Adults Gender Non - Conforming / Gender Creative
Children / Adolescents Parents of GLBTQ
Children Men Women Older Adults Adolescents Infants / Pre-schoolers Elementary / School - Aged
Children Middle School / Pre-teens Young Adults Middle Aged Adults Parents Childfree Adults
Immigrants Refugees African - American / Black
Latino / Latina / Latinx / Hispanic Southeast Asian Asian / Pacific Islander Arab / Middle Eastern Mixed Race Adoptees Foster
Children Foster Parents Christian Muslim Jewish Buddhist Hindu Atheist / Agnostic Spiritual New Age Indigenous / Traditional Religion Military First Responders (Police, Paramedic, Fire Fighter, etc.) Disabled / People with Disabilities Mixed - Orientation Couples Mixed Religion Couples Mixed Race / Cross-Cultural Couples Homeless Adults Homeless
Children / Families Working Class / Blue Collar / Tradespeople White Collar Workers Therapists / Counselors
Nationally,
Latino children from
immigrant families face obstacles on every measure included in this index with the exception that they were more likely to live in two - parent households.
Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study examined the effectiveness of
Child - Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT) in school settings with low - income
Latino immigrant parents whose
children were identified with behavioral concerns.
Partnering With
Latino and
Immigrant Families: Resources and Suggestions for Child Welfare Professionals (PDF - 1,465 KB) North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (2015) Discusses working with Latino and / or immigrant families for child welfare professionals in North Carolina and includes information on topics such as educating and recruiting foster families, using culturally sensitive recruitment, working with Hispanic foster families, using translators,
Immigrant Families: Resources and Suggestions for
Child Welfare Professionals (PDF - 1,465 KB) North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (2015) Discusses working with Latino and / or immigrant families for child welfare professionals in North Carolina and includes information on topics such as educating and recruiting foster families, using culturally sensitive recruitment, working with Hispanic foster families, using translators, and
Child Welfare Professionals (PDF - 1,465 KB) North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (2015) Discusses working with
Latino and / or
immigrant families for child welfare professionals in North Carolina and includes information on topics such as educating and recruiting foster families, using culturally sensitive recruitment, working with Hispanic foster families, using translators,
immigrant families for
child welfare professionals in North Carolina and includes information on topics such as educating and recruiting foster families, using culturally sensitive recruitment, working with Hispanic foster families, using translators, and
child welfare professionals in North Carolina and includes information on topics such as educating and recruiting foster families, using culturally sensitive recruitment, working with Hispanic foster families, using translators, and more.