Media Coverage

The mental health needs of unaccompanied minors are severely impacted upon resettlement in the U.S.... They’ve dreamed of being in the U.S. for the ability to go to college, the ability to send money back home, but once they arrive here, there’s a different reality and they realize that they have to go to work immediately.

— Kristina Lovato, Associate Professor and director of the Center on Immigration and Child Welfare, quoted in KQED,...

It’s not the inability to get a ticket to go home that’s the issue. For most people who are homeless, it’s actually having a safe place to go home to begin with, as well as having the adequate services to treat trauma, and mental health, and access to quality substance use treatment.

— Jamie Chang, Associate Professor, quoted in KQED's article, "San José Adopts Controversial Plan to Bus Homeless People Out of the City"