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Update from Witness to Witness: Pivoting to Virtual Peer Support for Clinicians Experiencing Moral Injury During Pandemic

Jul 28, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
  For decades, Kaethe Weingarten, PhD, has explored how witnesses to violence are affected by that witnessing. Several years ago, Dr. Weingarten began to wonder how the helpers – like pro-bono…
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Supporting Clinicians During Their Most Challenging Moments: Witness to Witness, by Dr. Laszlo Madaras

Jul 23, 2020
By: Jannette Nuñez
By Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH TS Eliot once wrote that April is the cruelest month, but I would put in a bid for July. While I have spent many happy summers on the shores of Maine and Cape Cod in…
Giving Tuesday Now: Witness to Witness

Trauma, Mental Health, and COVID-19: Giving Tuesday Offers Support for Frontline Clinicians

May 5, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
The last time I ever spoke to my friend Anna, she cried about resigning from her job. Educated at my own alma mater, eventually graduating with a degree in counseling, she had run the gamut of…
Take MCN’s 2020 Poll: What Is Changing for Immigrant & Migrant Patients?

Take MCN’s 2020 Poll: What Is Changing for Immigrant & Migrant Patients?

Apr 8, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
ICE raids. Public charge. Rhetoric around immigration. In the last three years, clinicians who have taken MCN’s annual poll have confirmed that forces outside of the clinic interrupt health care…
CSM went door-to-door checking on their patients after Hurricane Maria.

Streamline: #MeToo in the Fields: New Video and Curriculum to Eliminate Agricultural Worker Sexual Harassment

Mar 18, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Cast and crew of training video filming. Yakima, WA | September 2019 By Claire Hutkins Seda, Writer, Migrant Clinicians Network and Managing Editor, Streamline When the #MeToo movement exploded…
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Helping the Helpers: Tools for Trauma and Self-Care in the Wake of the Camp Fire

Dec 9, 2019
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
a worker helping Camp Fire survivors, what pitfalls do you think are pertinent? In contrast, what ways can maximize effectiveness in the field?” This question, asked by a participant during…
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“Building the Plane Mid-Air”: A Local Perspective, A Year After the Camp Fire

Nov 7, 2019
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Molly Jolliff One year ago, on November 8th, 2018, my priority at the start of my workday was to pick up flowers for my organization’s five-year anniversary celebration. However, within moments…
The Rodriguez family. Front row: Liliana, 13, and Alejandro, 10. Back row: Adrian,15; Jose, father; Izaak, 18; and Carmen, mother.

Mother of a Transgender Boy: “Am I Doing the Right Thing?”

Jun 27, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
The Rodriguez family. Front row: Liliana, 13, and Alejandro, 10. Back row: Adrian,15; Jose, father; Izaak, 18; and Carmen, mother. Four years ago, Carmen Rodriguez had trouble switching pronouns…
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Witnessing: How Clinicians Can Move From Traumatic Stress to Empowerment While Serving Their Immigrant Patients

Oct 25, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
(photo by Earl Dotter) When Kaethe Weingarten, PhD, first entered clinical practice as a psychologist and family therapist in 1970s Boston, she began to notice a common theme among her work with…
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MCN and Ventanilla de Salud Celebrate Binational Health Week

Oct 2, 2018
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Luis Edwardo Retta This time of the year marks the annual Binational Health Week at the Mexican Consulate of Austin. Along with Ventanillas de Salud all over the country, the Austin Ventanilla…
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Streamline Reprint: Disasters, Mental Health, and Puerto Rico: Interview with Dr. Lorena Torres

Sep 4, 2018
By: Alma Galván
photo credit: CSMBy Alma GalvanIn September 2017, Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico in what is called the strongest hurricane to ever hit the island. The devastation was widespread and long-…
Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center

Summer Streamline: Integrated Team-Based Approach to Hypertension at Virginia Garcia

Jul 5, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
photo courtesy of Viriginia Garcia Memorial Health CenterBy Claire Hutkins Seda, Writer, Migrant Clinicians Network, and Managing Editor, StreamlineFour years ago, the providers at Virginia Garcia…
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Toxic: How To Battle Adverse Childhood Experiences Among Mobile Agricultural Workers

Jun 6, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Divorce, violence in the community, a family member incarcerated or deported, physical or sexual abuse, a lengthy and dangerous migration. For many people across the US, adverse experiences like…
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Toxic Stress

May 10, 2018
By: Eva Galvez
Earlier this week, I saw a patient for her prenatal visit. She is now in her 20th week of pregnancy. Her husband was deported during her tenth week of pregnancy and her seven-year-old son has been…
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Binational: When Disaster Strikes Your US Community and Your Home Community

Oct 11, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Last week, MCN’s Leslie Diaz, who works as a Health Network Associate at the Ventanilla de Salud (VdS) in Austin, Texas, called Francisco Gámez, with Aids Interfaith Network/Manos Unidas and VdS in…