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Today, many of our minority and immigrant population feel that their needs and mental health challenges are not being heard by our government officials. The Dream Act, in 2001 recognizes that individuals brought into the United States illegally as children were innocent of purposefully violating immigration law and were already integrated into the U.S. culture (Issitt, Micah L, 2017). Minority immigrants often believe that their needs are not being taken seriously without any consistency and promptness with government officials processing paperwork. A lot of minority immigrants are fearful of moving forward with DACA and processing any paperwork because it might put other undocumented families in their household in jeopardy of being deported. This leaves immigrants with insecurities and not moving forward with receiving adequate healthcare, education, and employment.
Social work services are designed to improve the social life and living conditions of every client who needs assistance. Being in this field, I am particularly interested in working with the minority immigrant population especially those who are deprived or disenfranchised in accessing basic mental health services in the community. A great number of Latino adults only seek help or assistance from mental health care providers when the conditions become severe. In addition, it has been observed that most adults with Hispanic cultures have great misconceptions about having mental health illnesses. They automatically relate it with people who are crazy or mentally ill that is why most minorities and immigrants who are suffering from mental health illness would likely hide it and resolve it on their own without proper medical attention.
There are also other factors why there is great underutilization of mental health services among the Latino population. One of them is a lack of health insurance and stable employment. Some could not even keep up with their medication due to financial constraints. Racial discrimination is also a major reason why minorities and immigrant people tend to hesitate seeking mental health care services. Racial discrimination causes insecurities amongst our minority and immigrant population in receiving adequate healthcare services, education, and employment.
Minorities and immigrant populations are underserved in our urban school districts with a lack of educational resources and mental health assistance in the schools. Immigrant students are fearful of admitting any mental health challenges due to being in fear that their household will be investigated for undocumented persons. The DACA assists the migrant student, however, they will put other family members in jeopardy processing their documentation for permanent residency.
Also, I am interested in with working schools to develop effective mental health programs within the school on a daily basis. Even though educational needs are a priority in our school systems, our schools are failing and have low percentages of graduation rates due to students’ mental illness not being addressed in the schools. Students whose mental illness is not being addressed in the community should have access to resources in the schools that can help them cope with mental health challenges. I believe if mental health challenges were addressed properly in our school system the minority and immigrant students would have a higher academic success rate. Mental health support groups should be integrated within our school system and higher-level mental health providers should be employed within our school system. Immigrant students are often under scrutiny and often bullied because of their language differences, cultural values, and often their appearance. Stressors involving immigrant policies have lasting mental health effects on sleep patterns.
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