25 North 14th St.
San Jose, CA 95112
Phone: (408) 807-1875
www.factr.org
January 1, 2018
Dear Friend,
If ever immigrants need help, it is now! Times have been most dispiriting for immigrants
of all backgrounds, especially the legally stressed and most vulnerable, like the elderly
and children! And FACTR’s approach to the resilience and emotional well-being of the
immigrant is especially needed now more than ever. Our approach of weaving together
a repertoire of interventions at the case specific, clinical, level and the community
psychologal level is proving to be more necessary than ever.
However, in order to effectively utilize our resources, we have decided to focus on just
two mental health program options, one clinical and one, community psychological or
broad brushed in its approach! The two priority programs, then, are:
1. Our Immigration Deportation and Hardship Center (IDHC), a forensic mental
health program which incorporates the provision of forensic mental health
services at FACTR, which includes psycho social evaluations for use in
immigration courts, counseling and case management, and a psycho-education
program for children who are frightened and traumatized by the danger of
parental detention and/or deportation. IDHC helps the immigrant's story be told
more fully and fairly in court and, otherwise, addresses the painful experience of
living in the shadows of our society and being under the constant threat of family
disruption and separation due to unjust immigration policies.
2. Our Mindful Aging Project (MAP), a multi-cultural, inter-generational,
sustainable land use project, which is designed for elder immigrants in the Santa
Clara Valley, who, displaced due to war, ethnic cleansing and extreme poverty,
are isolated, poorly integrated, depressed and often lost between their homeland
and the new land to which they have emigrated. MAP will help elder immigrants
learn the new art of sustainable gardening, contribute to their new society in a
meaningful way, achieve a greater sense of belonging in their new homeland
and achieve greater health, and spiritual well-being through their own produce
and serenity gardening.
If you care about current immigration policy, what's happening to our DACA dreamers
and the unwarranted trauma to which children and families are being subjected, please
donate today to these programs at FACTR and others at http://factr.org/make-adonation/
It is a sorrowful time for immigrants and those who care about them. So we say, yes, Cry, America! But, please, do also help the cause of immigrants under threat in our society today, due to stressful legal circumstances or other vulnerabilities. Donate at FACTR Today at http://factr.org/make-a-donation/
Wishing you a New Year full of renewed hope and abundant blessings.
Sincerely,
Karita Hummer, LCSW, FACTR, President and Clinical Director
If you want to help immigrants in such plight and endangerment, donate to FACTR today! http://factr.org/make-a-donation/ For your tax records, our Federal Tax exemption number is: 26-2177441
