Associate professor in the Department of Social Work at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois.
Founder and chair of the Illinois Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics Refugee Immigrant Child Health Initiative, and the Midwest Human Rights Consortium.
AMA J Ethics. 2022 Apr 1;24(4):E267-274. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.267.
The process of being granted asylum is complex, often taking months and years. Asylum seekers face high risk of being denied asylum in the United States. As medical and psychological evaluations assist in achieving successful asylum outcomes, human rights asylum clinics are being established throughout the country to facilitate these types of evaluations. The Midwest Human Rights Consortium, a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary initiative, is working to streamline the referral process and increase the evaluator workforce through training and mentorship of practitioners. More work is needed to establish evidence-based, child-centered, and trauma-informed best practices in training evaluators and performing evaluations.
寻求庇护的过程复杂，通常需要数月甚至数年。寻求庇护者在美国被拒绝庇护的风险很高。由于医疗和心理评估有助于取得成功的庇护结果，因此全国各地都在建立人权庇护诊所，以方便进行这类评估。中西部人权联盟是一个多机构、跨学科的倡议，致力于通过培训和指导从业人员来简化转介程序并增加评估人员队伍。在培训评估人员和进行评估方面，需要开展更多工作来建立基于证据、以儿童为中心和考虑创伤的最佳实践。
