Saks Institute Spring Symposium 2020

The Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy, and Ethics and USC's Immigrants and Global Migration Initiative present

Spring Symposium 2020
Immigration, Asylum and Mental Health

Monday, March 30, 2020
9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Town & Gown Ballroom
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

Registration is FREE. Space is limited.

You may download the conference schedule in Adobe PDF format.

* Light Continental Breakfast available at 8:30 - 9:00 am

9:00 - 9:10 a.m.

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Andrew T. Guzman
Dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law, USC Gould School of Law

Elyn Saks
Founder and Faculty Director, Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy, and Ethics

SESSION ONE:

9:15 - 10:15 a.m.

Children and Families: Separation, Suicide and Minors in Adult Detention

Amy Cohen
Child Psychiatrist, Flores Counsel expert on trauma
Executive Director, Every Last One

Melody Klingenfuss
Statewide Organizer, California Dream Network, Coalition for Human Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA)

Roya Ijadi-Maghsoodi
Assistant Professor-in-Residence, UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences

Patricia Ortiz
Program Director, Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project

Moderator: Elle Fersan
Director, USC's Immigrants and Global Migration Initiative (IGMI)

SESSION TWO:

10:25 - 11:25 a.m.

Asylum, Disability and Mental Health

Raiza Daniela Aparicio Hernandez
Activist and Defender of Human and LGBTQ and Rights

Chantal Figueroa
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Colorado College

Sonya Gabrielian
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

Daniela Hernandez Chong Cuy
Immigration removal defense attorney, National Qualified Representative Program ("NQRP") Provider

Moderator: Kayleen Hartman
Supervising Attorney and Clinical Teaching Fellow, Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic

SESSION THREE:

11:40 a.m. - 12:40 p.m.

Clubhouse Conversation

Richard Diaz
Staff Attorney II, Disability Rights California

Pamela McPherson
Child & Adolescent, Adult, and Forensic Psychiatrist

Altaf Saadi
Neurologist, Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Neurology
Instruct of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Cindy Woods
Managing Attorney, Projecto de Ayuda para Solicitantes de Asilo (PASA), Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA)

Moderator: Robyn Barnard
Staff Attorney, Refugee Representation, Human Rights First

SESSION FOUR - LUNCHTIME:

1:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Mental Health Among Refugees in Non-US settings (Greece, Lebanon, Jordan, Libya, Tijuana, Bangladesh)

Senait Admassu
Executive Director, African Communities Public Health Coalition

Lindsay Feldman Weissert
COO / Board Chair, Pedagogical Institute of Los Angeles

Parveen Parmar
Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC

Moderator: Elle Fersan
Director, IMGI

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