Safety Planning with Latine Communities for Immigration Violence and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors from ...
Thu, Mar 19
|Inter American University of Puerto Rico
from an Ecological, Harm Reductionist Approach Planificación de la Seguridad en Comunidades Latinas Ante la Violencia Migratoria y los Pensamientos y Conductas Suicidas: Un Enfoque Ecológico y de Reducción de Daños
Time & Location
Mar 19, 2026, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Inter American University of Puerto Rico, 100 C. Francisco Seín, San Juan, 00927, Puerto Rico
Summary
PRESENTERS: Álvaro Gamio Cuervo, MSW, PhD (Lead Presenter) Postdoctoral Fellow, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Bradley Hospital
Hannah Biskind LICSW, Clinical Social Worker, Massachusetts General Hospital Adjunct Instructor, Boston University School of Social Work, PhD Student, Smith College School of Social Work
Safety planning is a clinical intervention that requires the identification of warning signs, individuals of support, community resources, and steps to prevent future crises. A variety of situations can benefit from safety planning, ranging from suicidal crises, deportation threats, and episodes of post-traumatic stress. Given the current sociopolitical climate, there is an urgent need to train social workers on harm-reductionist approaches to safety planning that directly respond to deportation in Latin communities. There is potential of heightened suicide risk among Latine individuals whose communities are additionally suffering from threats of immigration detention and deportation. The current presentation draws on pre-existing literature
of safety planning from community…