RESETTLEMENT

SERVICES FOR
IMMIGRANTS
IN ROGERS PARK

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ASSET MAP COMPONENTS

ASSOCIATIONS INDIVIDUALS INTANGIBLE ASSETS

❑ CASA Lab ❑ Students ❑ Ethnic Enclaves
❑ Protect RP ❑ Professors ❑ Progressive Mindset
❑ Community Members

INSTITUTIONS PHYSICAL SPACES

❑ Loyola University
Chicago
ROGERS ❑
❑
Pottawattomie Park
Howard Area
❑ Northside Community Community Garden
Resources
PARK, IL ❑ Places of Worship

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1.
Individuals
Students, Professors, & Community
Members.
The Power of the
Individual
Students
Students are a
Professors
tremendous asset to
Professors at Loyola
Rogers Park’s Community
University Chicago
immigrant communities Members
serve as an asset
because they can
because they are There is a large
organize in larger
educated professionals community outside the
numbers without many
whose research may grounds of Loyola, and
constraints from
inform components they are an asset
administrational
impacting lives of the because they are able
bureaucracy.
immigrant communities to organize and form
in Rogers Park, e.g. coalitions that are
intervention programs, comprised of individuals
policy, support systems. who want to help
support their fellow 4
2.
ASSOCIATIONS
CASA Lab & Protect RP.
The Influence of
Associations
Children Adapting to
Stress & Adversity Lab
This lab is an asset because it
focuses its research on examining
the effects of immigrant-related
stress on children and families to
inform and develop various
intervention programs that promote
resilience within immigrant families.
Protect RP
This group serves as an asset
because its sole goal is to come
together as a community to protect
individuals who may be at risk as a
result of legal status, national origin,
faith, gender expression or race. The
connect with other organizations to
provide various services, e.g. Know
Your Rights training.
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3.
INSTITUTIONS
Loyola University Chicago &
Northside Community Resources
The Impact of Institutions
Loyola University
Chicago
The university is has large roots in
the community and helps develop
initiatives that are intended to
support immigrant communities, e.g.
Center for Immigrant and Refugee
Accompaniment, as well as providing
students with a rich culture of
advocacy and service work to be
utilized in providing additional
agency.
Northside Community
Resources
This organization specializes in
offering a variety of different
resources, and it prominently
promotes having a Multicultural
Resource Program to support the
wellbeing and self-sufficiency of
immigrant communities, which
makes it an evident asset to the
immigrants in Rogers Park.
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4.
PHYSICAL
SPACES
Pottawattomie Park, Howard Area
Community Garden, & Places of
Worship.
The Effect of Physical
Spaces
Pottawattomie Park
This park is an asset Howard Area
the the community Community Garden
Places of Worship
because people can The community garden
There are several
come here to enjoy offers an opportunity
places of worship
themselves in for individuals to come
across the Rogers Park
recreational activities, together and find
area, which serves as
which can provide an peace, and possibly
an asset to the
outlet to let go of some resonate with
immigrant community
stress even if it is only gardening, as many
because there are
temporary. cultures value
several cultures that
horticulture.
emphasize daily
practices of faith, and
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5.
INTANGIBLE
ASSETS
Ethnic Enclaves & Progressive
Mindsets.
54,402
People reside in Rogers Park as of 2015.
Unfortunately, there’s no data on how many
identify as immigrants.

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The Significance of
Intangible Assets
Ethnic Enclaves
Considering the high degree of
diversity in Rogers park, an asset to
the immigrant community is
development of small-scale ethnic
enclaves. These promote less
strained integration into the host
culture, and they support healthier
ethnic identity development.
Progressive Mindset
Rogers Park is home to a population
that is very respectful of the
immigrant community and their
various experiences. This is an asset
because there is likely less
perception of discrimination and
violence in comparison to rural
communities.
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6.
ACTION PLAN
Improving Mental Health Support
for the Immigrant Communities.
Overview

Repeat cycle as
Goals needs arise.
Promote discussion of experiences04 01
Applying generalizable therapeutic
principles to typical activities Individuals and
Individuals and
Associations, Establishing Associations identify
the deficiencies in
depending on
qualifications, can
Communal the current system
set regarding mental
use Physical Spaces Intervention health support for
to promote the new immigrants and
program in a less- Programs develop a plan for a
stigmatized new system
environment and informed by
comfortable research &
mindset. 03 02 Intangible Assets.

Individuals &
Associations seek
larger-scale support
from Institutions for
implementation
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STEP 1: Development
Phase

❑ Professors possess both the experiential and educational background to

be qualified in leading the endeavor to establish a new intervention
program for immigrant communities & its objectives.

❏ They can partner with associations, e.g. CASA Lab, to work with
professionals that specialize in clinical psychology or community
psychology to support the development of a new program that is
culturally informed based on the diversity of needs in the
community.

❏ Prior to the development stage, this partnership will be

able to successfully identify what the issues are with the
current mental health support systems in the community.

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STEP 2: Logistics Phase

❑ The Partnership can then propose their plan to institutions that

have the platform to support the execution of the program
because, typically, funds are needed that individuals and
associations would otherwise lack.
❏ After receiving funding, the partnership can then pay additional
personnel to support the execution of the plan as well as
paying for additional materials that may be needed.

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STEP 3: Execution Phase

❑ Qualified individuals can then host the new & informed intervention
program in physical spaces (e.g. parks, places of worship) and in
modified ways (e.g. mindfulness, exercise) to accommodate the
feelings of controversy in immigrant communities surrounding
receiving professional help for one’s emotional wellbeing.
❏ Professionals can also train worship leaders, e.g. Imam, rabbi,
priest, basic applications of psychotherapy to support
discussion of issues involved in life readjustment.

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