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This Monday, Dec. 2nd, 2019, the California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) Team had the honor to participate and present at Sacramento State's 4th Annual Keeping the Dream Alive Conference, an event dedicated to enable educators and professionals to become agents of change in their respective institutions and advance the educational success of undocumented and mixed-status students.
Following this year’s theme, “Shifting the Undocumented Narrative from Surviving to Thriving”, the CMSC team led two workshops on the following topics:
- This presentation informed the audience about the psychological crisis affecting the immigrant community and offered a model that may help educators identify and respond to the emotional and behavioral symptoms that require assistance for immigrant students and parents in K-12 schools. The proposed model is based on the idea that parents must be engaged in a process of empowerment, in order to thrive and to become part of the solution through organizing Immigrant Parent Councils (similar to PTA’s). Thus, creating a safe space for them to participate in the assessment of problems and mapping of solutions. This model will require the initial commitment and leadership from the schools, but Immigrant Parent Councils (IPC) may lead to increased students and parents’ participation in school activities and leadership roles. This concept reverses the deficit-based approach, which assumes that immigrant families need a handout, when in fact they represent an untapped human resource if provided the means to organize and build their own capacity to be resilient through the collective efforts of parents to survive and thrive.
- This presentation featured five Dreamers who conveyed their personal stories of how they have developed agency, resilience, and empowerment through organizing and activism, as well as how they have safeguarded their mental health well-being while they advocate. They also discussed the racialized experience of DACA recipients and how they have been impacted during the current socio-political climate that is explicitly racist toward the immigrant community. Moreover, the presentation informed the audience about the progress of the National Campaign to Restore DACA’s Advance Parole and significant accomplishments through student’s self-advocacy, agency and activism.
- A Plan to Address Parents and K-12 Students' Critical Need for Mental Health Services and School-based Specialized Attention
- Self-Advocacy, Agency, and Activism: Developing the National Campaign to Restore DACA's Advance Parole
We want to thank Fay Mann-Graef's continued support of our National Campaign to Restore DACA's Advance Parole
From left to right: Andrea Ortiz, Citlalli Ortiz, Lidieth Arevalo, Fay Mann-Graef, Armando Vazquez-Ramos, Mayra Garibo, and Miriam Delgado.
While in Sacramento, the CMSC team had the opportunity to personally connect with Fay Mann-Graef, one of our most generous supporters. Thank you, Fay for your friendship, love and continuous support to continue our Campaign to Restore DACA’s Advance Parole!
hoʻopōmaikaʻi
– The CMSC Team
WE SINCERELY THANK THE BLESSING AND GENEROSITY OF OUR SPONSORS AND DONORS IN 2019
We also want to thank all of our supporters who donated yesterday to the CMSC's Facebook #GivingTuesday fundraiser. Your contribution and generosity will make an impact, whether you donated $5 or $500, given that the CMSC is the only organization in the U.S. that is leading the National Campaign to Restore #DACA's Advance Parole!
We are at 60% from reaching our goal of $10,000 to cover all expenses of our 2019 National Campaign to Restore DACA's Advance Parole, which included hosting 3 advocacy trips in Washington, D.C. that allowed over 90 DACA recipients, allies, and Dreamer moms to participate, as well as helping Dreamers to apply for humanitarian Advance Parole.
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In case you missed it, watch the Inaugural Joe White's Legacy Lecture (video)
The Inaugural Lecture to memorialize Dr. Joseph L. White’s life-long contributions to the field of psychology, his pioneering role establishing ethnic studies in the U.S., and as the founder of the CSULB Educational Opportunities Program (EOP) was an amazing success with about 100 of his colleagues, family members, faculty and students in attendance... Read more here
CMSC's Días de la Raza exhibition by Luis Garza
(October 12, 2019 – January 19, 2020) – Centro Cultural Tijuana
The exhibition Días de la Raza was originated by the California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) and was inaugurated by Dr. Vianka R. Santana, General Director of the Tijuana Cultural Center (CECUT), on October 12, 2019 (Día de la Raza) as the final activity of the International Conference Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of Chicano Studies, celebrated at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) and CECUT from October 8-12, 2019, in collaboration with San Diego State University, COLEF, CECUT and CMSC.
Días de la Raza will be exhibited until Sunday, January 19, 2020.
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