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Sanctuary Doctor

Treating Fear: Sanctuary Doctoring‌‌‌‌‌‌‌

Immigration Status and Your Health

Click here to access Spanish version


This web page contains presentation materials, patient flyers, immigrant health information cards‌ and lapel pins (linked in the TOOLKIT at the bottom of this web age) developed by Johana Mejias-Beck, MD, Mark Kuczewski, PhD, Amy Blair, MD and Maria De Los Angeles Almaraz Villanueva.  

These materials are designed to be simple and useful in helping physicians and health-care professionals to meet the needs of their patients who may be undocumented or suffering stresses related to close family or community members being undocumented.  While there are many toolkits being developed, we hope that these materials might be very easy to use and enable the physician or other health-care professional to address the most immediate needs of such patients.

Using the Sanctuary Doctor Toolkit (Video link)

Read the article by Mark Kuczewski, Johana Mejias-Beck and Amy Blair, “Good Sanctuary Doctoring for Undocumented Patients.” AMA Journal of Ethics 21(1):E78-85, 2019 https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/good-sanctuary-doctoring-undocumented-patients/2019-01

The following information is designed to be of immediate help to patients. Please refer them to this web page.

 

IMMIGRATION STATUS AND YOUR HEALTH 
Immigration problems can impact your health or the health of a family member or neighbor.  Your doctor can help.  This doctor’s office is a safe place to talk about your concerns and find resources.

RESOURCES:

Legal
We suggest that you find and attend a “Know Your Rights” training that is offered by a qualified legal services group. If you cannot find a training nearby, you can look online for know your rights resources.  Be sure that your family knows what to do if ICE agents come to your door.  Be sure to make a safety plan about what to do if you are detained and you have children who need to be cared for.

Know Your Rights

Local Legal Resources

High Priority!  UPDATING EMERGENCY CONTACTS 
If you are a parent, you want to be sure that your children will be picked up from school by the family members or persons you wish should you be detained.

Important:  Be sure that the Emergency Contact information at your child’s school is up to date with the name and phone number of the persons you choose.  This will be the person the school calls if you do not show up to pick up your children and cannot be reached. You can usually update the contacts online at the webpage of your child’s school or school district. It can also usually be done in person at the school’s administrative office. You should be sure to update this information immediately!

DEVELOPING AN EMERGENCY PLAN 
The websites below will help you to make a more detailed plan in the event of being detained unexpectedly. There are many other good sites on the internet as well.

More resources...

Social and Education Information for Youth that are Not Documented 
Young people who are not documented are sometimes called Dreamers. They often face a lot of stress for many reasons.  One reason is worry about their chance to study beyond high school.  One other reason is fear that they or a loved one could be deported. There are programs that offer information about resources. They can help people understand that others have faced these barriers and that there are ways to address them. There are also national groups that can provide helpful guidance about education opportunities and current developments regarding DACA.

Local Youth Educational Resources

 

Toolkit

Using the Sanctuary Doctor Toolkit (Video link)

PATIENT FLYERS (pdf or ppt files for editing and printing)

Immigration Status and Your Health

Adapted Flyer Samples:

Access to Care (ATC)

Immigrant Health Information Cards and Lapel Pins
To request English and Spanish Immigrant Health Information cards and lapel pins contact: sanctuarydoctor@luc.edu.

Healthcare Resources

AAP Immigrant Child Health Toolkit
https://www.aap.org/en/patient-care/immigrant-child-health/

Doctors For Immigrants Toolkit
WelcomingProtectingImmigrants-toolkit-3.pdf

Physicians for Human Rights, Asylum Examination Training
https://phr.org/issues/asylum-and-persecution/asylum-network-trainings/

Immigration Status and Your Health

Click here to access Spanish version


This web page contains presentation materials, patient flyers, immigrant health information cards‌ and lapel pins (linked in the TOOLKIT at the bottom of this web age) developed by Johana Mejias-Beck, MD, Mark Kuczewski, PhD, Amy Blair, MD and Maria De Los Angeles Almaraz Villanueva.  

These materials are designed to be simple and useful in helping physicians and health-care professionals to meet the needs of their patients who may be undocumented or suffering stresses related to close family or community members being undocumented.  While there are many toolkits being developed, we hope that these materials might be very easy to use and enable the physician or other health-care professional to address the most immediate needs of such patients.

Using the Sanctuary Doctor Toolkit (Video link)

Read the article by Mark Kuczewski, Johana Mejias-Beck and Amy Blair, “Good Sanctuary Doctoring for Undocumented Patients.” AMA Journal of Ethics 21(1):E78-85, 2019 https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/good-sanctuary-doctoring-undocumented-patients/2019-01

The following information is designed to be of immediate help to patients. Please refer them to this web page.

 

IMMIGRATION STATUS AND YOUR HEALTH 
Immigration problems can impact your health or the health of a family member or neighbor.  Your doctor can help.  This doctor’s office is a safe place to talk about your concerns and find resources.

RESOURCES:

Legal
We suggest that you find and attend a “Know Your Rights” training that is offered by a qualified legal services group. If you cannot find a training nearby, you can look online for know your rights resources.  Be sure that your family knows what to do if ICE agents come to your door.  Be sure to make a safety plan about what to do if you are detained and you have children who need to be cared for.

Know Your Rights

Local Legal Resources

High Priority!  UPDATING EMERGENCY CONTACTS 
If you are a parent, you want to be sure that your children will be picked up from school by the family members or persons you wish should you be detained.

Important:  Be sure that the Emergency Contact information at your child’s school is up to date with the name and phone number of the persons you choose.  This will be the person the school calls if you do not show up to pick up your children and cannot be reached. You can usually update the contacts online at the webpage of your child’s school or school district. It can also usually be done in person at the school’s administrative office. You should be sure to update this information immediately!

DEVELOPING AN EMERGENCY PLAN 
The websites below will help you to make a more detailed plan in the event of being detained unexpectedly. There are many other good sites on the internet as well.

More resources...

Social and Education Information for Youth that are Not Documented 
Young people who are not documented are sometimes called Dreamers. They often face a lot of stress for many reasons.  One reason is worry about their chance to study beyond high school.  One other reason is fear that they or a loved one could be deported. There are programs that offer information about resources. They can help people understand that others have faced these barriers and that there are ways to address them. There are also national groups that can provide helpful guidance about education opportunities and current developments regarding DACA.

Local Youth Educational Resources

 

Toolkit

Using the Sanctuary Doctor Toolkit (Video link)

PATIENT FLYERS (pdf or ppt files for editing and printing)

Immigration Status and Your Health

Adapted Flyer Samples:

Access to Care (ATC)

Immigrant Health Information Cards and Lapel Pins
To request English and Spanish Immigrant Health Information cards and lapel pins contact: sanctuarydoctor@luc.edu.

Healthcare Resources

AAP Immigrant Child Health Toolkit
https://www.aap.org/en/patient-care/immigrant-child-health/

Doctors For Immigrants Toolkit
WelcomingProtectingImmigrants-toolkit-3.pdf

Physicians for Human Rights, Asylum Examination Training
https://phr.org/issues/asylum-and-persecution/asylum-network-trainings/