City & State NY: How is the City Handling the Mental Health of Newly Arrived Migrants?
City & State NY reports on how “referrals, partnerships, and strong interagency relationships, the city is hoping to address the mental health of the migrant population.” Given our work with children and families in the city, they included a quote from Foundling leadership about how the pressures of migration impact young people:
““The (mental health) symptoms tend to be kind of stronger (in migrant children),” said Kristy-Lee Jean-Pierre, senior vice president, mental health services at The New York Foundling. “They last for a lot longer. The length of stay tends to be longer for migrant children than we’re finding for other groups of children. And I think it’s a function of all of the different stressors that are impacting the family. That just makes it a little bit harder to find that space of safety.”
