Building Community Connections & Power
Community building creates spaces for people to connect, build trust, learn together, and develop aligned practices and relationships that can support this work and our communities for the long haul. We work to build connections and community that not only allows us to take care of one another, but also allows us to collectively fight for what our communities need to be safe and well.
#LetsTalkFacts Community Teach-In on Saturday, June 7 in partnership with Concord Community Organization (CCO).
“The #Let’sTalkFacts teach-in reinforced my understanding, but it also provided me an opportunity to get the perspective of others.”
#LetsTalkFacts Community Teach-Ins
CIMH offers #LetsTalkFacts Community Teach-Ins to create a space to challenge harmful narratives and foster greater understanding for immigrant and refugee communities.
If you would like to consider becoming a facilitator for this curriculum to help us keep up with demand, please let Cindy know at cindy@ourcimh.org.
“It gave me more facts and confidence to combat false narratives.”
Working Groups
Outreach & Engagement
This working group will work to develop a strategy to support CIMH’s goal, outlined in the recent strategic plan, to adopt a more inclusive approach, expanding beyond binary and systemic definitions of immigrants as documented or undocumented, and instead embracing more inclusive terminology that reflects the diverse communities we serve.
Policy & Advocacy
This working group will contribute a mental health lens to immigrant and refugee policy advocacy and organizing, and help to keep our members informed on actions they can take regarding policy change. The working group will support any relevant community-driven policy campaigns on issues relevant to immigrant and refugee mental health and will monitor, track, and provide guidance to the Executive Director regarding recommendations to cosign legislation or submit witness slips.
CIMH Annual Convening
This working group will utilize the convening brief provided by the CIMH Board of Directors to plan for the 2026 annual convening. This will include identifying/securing a date and location, developing programming for the convening, identification/outreach to speakers/presenters, outreach to community members, caterer, etc.