Impact Immigration
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Mission Statement
The non-profit IMPACT (Immigration Psychology Access Team) offers immigrants and refugees psychological documentation of their trauma and hardship as part of their legal pursuit to live where they and their families feel safe and can thrive. IMPACT provides high quality psychological evaluations to low income immigrants and refugees who have the right to this service as part of their legal application to remain in the United States.
About This Cause
For immigrant families the fear and uncertainty of staying in the United States compounds daily. They face unprecedented additional vulnerability in the context of Covid19. There is job loss, lack of access to unemployment benefits or federal aid and health fears. Immigrants and refugees have the right to a psychological evaluation as part of their legal application to stay. Psychological evaluations form the backbone of successful cases, roughly doubling the chance of a successful outcome and yet very few immigrants can afford them. IMPACT provides psychological evaluations for low income political asylum applicants, human trafficking victims, traumatized unaccompanied minors, victims of domestic violence and other crimes. We assess extreme hardship to US citizens if they were to be separated from their iimmigrant spouse. Without these expert evaluations individuals, families and children are at high risk for deportation and the devastating consequences that follow: families being permanently torn asunder; women and girls returning to the abuse and assault they fled; people in mental health crises being refused the refuge and services they need and our society losing the rich economic and cultural contributions that immigrants bring. IMPACT seeks to keep families together and to ensure that deeply traumatized people can remain where they are safe. In addition to providing subsidized evaluations, IMPACT offers a comprehensive training program to qualify more mental health professionals, thus ensuring that more immigrants have access to full due process.