Community Interventions to Improve Mental Health Access for Chinese Immigrant Youths: A Social-Ecological Approach

Learning Objectives:

• Upon completion, the participant will be able to understand essential community engagement principles or outreach strategies that have had a positive influence on involving the community and collaborating with its members are cornerstones of efforts to improve the accessibility of mental health services for immigrant youths and English learners.
• Upon completion, the participant will be able to understand immigrant students’ struggles in obtaining linguistically and culturally sensitive services to alleviate their mental disturbances during their life transition after immigration due to various individual-level risk factors and social determinants of health, such as authoritarian parenting, acculturation stress, lack of providers.
• Upon completion, the participant will be able to gain insight into the Social-ecological Model, a four-level model, including individual, interpersonal, community, and society. This model helps understand youth mental health holistically and design interventions to conceptualize health access broadly and emphasize multiple systems to influence individuals' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.