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ParentLink & CASPP
College of HES Extension
University of MissouriPresentation to Cambio De Colores - 2008
Presenters:Alejandra Gudiño Meg Roodhouse Kelsey Cunningham Nadine Abernathy Carol Mertensmeyer-Ryan
Discover how empathy is an important resource that serves as a buffer between family stressors and crisis. Even though all families face stressors, newcomers experience unique challenges. We postulate that empathy is a resource that receiving communities can develop so that newcomers can more successfully acculturate.
Discover how empathy is an important resource that serves as a buffer between family stressors and crisis. Even though all families face stressors, newcomers experience unique challenges. We postulate that empathy is a resource that receiving communities can develop so that newcomers can more successfully acculturate.
• Identify unique challenges that newcomers experience.
• Discover how empathy is an important resource that serves as a buffer between family stressors and crisis.
• Learn empathy skills to help effectively receive newcomers to our community.
Occur as immigrant typically:
• choose and adopt receiving- culture practices, and
• at the same time keep or give up selected practices from their cultures of origin (Berry 1997)
Ale tells her story about buying flour
Is the stress associated with having to learn about a new and different culture, language, costumes, laws and values. Is a significant part of the migration experience.
And significantly affects the physical and mental health of immigrants.
Presenters:
Carol Mertensmeyer
Alejandra Gudiño
Roodhouse, Megan Elizabeth,
Nadine Abernathy
Extended Family
Community
And Beyond
Extended Family
Community
And Beyond
Examples:
Poverty
No Child Care
Lack of Meaningful Employment
Work-Family Conflicts
No Transportation
No Health Care
1. Language Barriers
2. Work Related Stress
(Lack of Employer Understanding & Empathy)
3. Social/CulturalEnvironmental Stress Perceiving oneself as a target or victim of discrimination by members of the dominant group (Jasinskaja-Lathi & et al 2006)
4. Separation from Supports
5. Migratory Journey Stress (physical environment) (Cuellar 2002)
6. Social/Cultural Environmental Stress Perceiving oneself as a target or victim of discrimination by members of the dominant group
Stressor Crisis
Resources
Stressor Crisis
Resources
Perception
Stressor Crisis
WORKPLACEWORKPLACE
HOMEHOME
EMPATHIC COMMUNITYthe ability to identify with and
understand others’ feelings or difficulties
Extended Family
Community
And Beyond
Each of us can take responsibility.
Each of us can take responsibility.
We can begin one by one,
Each of us can take responsibility.
We can begin one by one,
Learn to listen --- really listen --- listen to understand
Each of us can take responsibility.
We can begin one by one,
•Learn to listen --- really listen --- listen to understand
•Learn to speak: Speak to be understood
Much less work has been done to identify factors that mediate or moderate the relationship between experiences of discrimination and psychological adjustments.
Specifically on identifying the specific resources that enable the immigrant to protect themselves from the negative experience related to their ethnicity and minority status
Role of social support networks and their positive and buffering effect on
immigrants adjustment
Presenters:
Kelly Warzinik
Kim Allen
Christina Crawford
Love’s Cradle is a research-based curriculum designed to teach empathy skills to couples.
It is the primary focus of a $5M ACF grant project called Connecting for Children that is a partnership of HDFS Extension (CASPP and
ParentLink) and Head Start.
Listening to Understand;
Talking to be Heard
Committing to Empathic Action
• Identified unique challenges that newcomers experience.
• Discovered how empathy is an important resource that serves as a buffer between family stressors and crisis.
• Learned empathy skills that will help me and others to more effectively receive newcomers to our community.
