Presented by: Carmen Rosa Norona, Ivys Fernandez-Pastrana and Elizabeth RaskinCenter of Excellence in Immigrant Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health. Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center

The ripple effect of immigration policy enforcement on young children in immigrant families is an urgent topic for infant and early childhood providers (pediatricians, mental health clinicians, early childhood educators, home visitors, and other frontline workers). This presentation will explore:

• providers’ values, beliefs, and perceptions regarding working with immigrant families and on how these shape practice

• the historical, socio-economic-political context forcing families to leave their home countries, the implications of pre, during, and post-immigration traumatic stressors, and the traumatic nature of threats of separation or forcible separation on the development and well-being of very young children

• the “Family Preparedness Plan,” a developmentally, trauma and diversity-informed tool to support and empower immigrant families in addressing fears of separation-related to immigration policy

• the impacts of the work in providers (vicarious traumatization, secondary traumatic stress, burnout, etc.) and strategies to address these effects.

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