Scholarship Fund - Forensic Mental Health Services
A nonprofit fundraiser supporting
Family Alliance for Counseling Tools & Resolutionfactr's Immigration Hardship Center, or IHC, provides Forensic Mental Health Services for immigrants
$247
raised by 6 people
$10,000 goal
FACTR Scholarship fund has been launched to help more vulnerable immigrant receive psychosocial evaluations helpful to them in immigration court and immigration proceedings. These reports, useful inhatrdship waiver, U-Visa, violence against women Visa considerations and asylum cases.
In addition to providing scholarship funds directly to vulnerable immugrants for such purposes, the scholarship fund will also be used to support counseling services to legally stressed clients, and training for mental health providers to learn the art of conducting psychosocial evaluations for immigrants in such need.
FACTR has established a scholarship fund for immigrants in need of forensic mental health assessment and counseling services, and for mental health trainees who wish to learn forensic mental health skills.
This fund will assist vulnerable immigrants needing quality, but, low cost forensic mental health assessments and counseling and case management services. The fund will be administered in FACTR’s Immigration Deportation and Hardship Center (IDHC). Which provides the following services:
- Forensic Mental Health Assessments for Hardship Waiver applicants, U-Visa and VAWA applicants, T-Visa applicants, asylum applicants, and mitigation evaluations for immigrants in the criminal justice system.
- Counseling and Case Management services that are culturally and linguistically appropriate for legally stressed immigrants and their families.
- Psychoeducation for children frightened, worried, or traumatized by deportation and detention issues impacting their parents and family members.
- Comprehensive and high-quality training for mental health professionals and immigration and criminal law attorneys.
- Community Education, through social justice theatre, called TEA (Theatre for Empowerment and Advocacy), that validates, and bears witness to the extreme hardships, adverse circumstances, and persecution many immigrants have experienced, thereby humanizing their stories for the general public to build community compassion and a shared understanding.
This scholarship fund will enable FACTR to contract highly qualified mental health professionals to provide affordable forensic mental health assessments for financially challenged immigrant families. These services will meet the demands of Immigration Court proceedings and make it possible to provide the necessary counseling and case management services for impacted families. Moreover, the fund will assist FACTR in training qualified mental health providers in developing the forensic mental health skills necessary to assist vulnerable immigrant families.
Be one of the first to support FACTR and our immigrant community in establishing its scholarship fund for the creation of affordable forensic mental health services, such as forensic mental health assessments, counseling and case management, psychoeducation, and training!