1. Increase understanding of the psychological and social impacts of immigration enforcement on individuals and families, including chronic fear, family separation, legal uncertainty, and their effects on mental health and functioning.
2. Identify culturally responsive and trauma-informed approaches for supporting immigrant clients navigating a complex and precarious immigration system.
3. Examine how heightened enforcement conditions affect social workers and service providers, including secondary trauma, moral distress, and burnout in high-stress practice settings and identify self-care and collective care strategies that promote sustainability, emotional regulation, and ethical engagement, recognizing that effective support for immigrant families requires sustained care for practitioners.

Topics include:

• Understanding heightened enforcement practices and how they shape clients’ daily realities
• Recognizing chronic fear, anxiety, grief, depression, and impacts on functioning across the lifespan
• Addressing trauma related to detention, deportation risk, mixed-status families, and prolonged uncertainty
• Applying trauma-informed practice in high-fear environments
• Honoring cultural values, language, migration histories, and community strengths
• Navigating ethical practice, confidentiality, informed consent, documentation, and advocacy under enforcement pressure
• Implementing strengths-based and resilience-focused interventions
• Coordinating care models that reduce harm and increase access to resources
• Managing secondary trauma, moral distress, compassion fatigue, and burnout
• Integrating self-care and collective care strategies for sustainability
• Maintaining effectiveness and wellbeing in prolonged crisis settings

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