Sentences with phrase «immigrants experiencing violence»

Many of our programs focus on highly vulnerable populations, including youth, immigrants experiencing violence, veterans, and the reentry population.

Not exact matches

A new study of national survey information gathered on more than 12,000 Hispanic children from immigrant and U.S. - native families found that although they experience more poverty, those from immigrant families reported fewer exposures to such adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) as parental divorce and scenes of violence.

What may have been a well - intentioned attempt to regulate immigration, actually resulted in increased marginalization of immigrant spouses who were experiencing domestic violence.

In my experience with the Edmonton Community Legal Centre («ECLC»), I have noticed that abusive sponsors can use the legal system to exert power and control over immigrant victims of domestic violence in two ways.

Objective To compare immigrant and Canadian - born women on the physical and psychological consequences of intimate partner violence (IPV), as well as examine important sociodemographic, health and social support and network factors that may shape their experiences of abuse.

Life and family events premigration and postmigration have been found to have a profound effect on the health and well - being of immigrant children.1, 2 Risk factors include trauma, separation from parents, nonvoluntary migration, obstacles in the acculturation process, 3 and children who immigrate in their mid - or late teens.1, 4 Research also shows that parents who have experienced or witnessed violence have poorer mental health, 2,5 which is likely to affect parent — child attachment and negatively impact child development and mental health.5 Transitioning to a new country may be beneficial for both parents and children, but it may render new and unexpected constraints in the parent — child relationship (eg, children tend to acculturate to the new country faster than their parents), cause disharmony and power conflicts, 6 — 8 and, subsequently, affect the child's mental health.9

Parents of youth with internalizing and externalizing behaviors, substance use and abuse, delinquency, police arrests, out - of - home placements, and deviant peer association; parents who are depressed, highly stressed, living in poverty or high - crime neighborhoods, Spanish - speaking immigrants, parents returning from wars (e.g., Iraq / Afghanistan) who may be experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), mothers living in shelters or supportive housing because of homelessness or domestic violence, birth parents whose children are in care because of abuse / neglect, and family with transitions such as divorce, single parenting, and step - families