CIMH Resources
Wellbeing Practices
Explore a collection of wellbeing practices shared by community members during our Wellbeing as Practice series. These offerings reflect diverse approaches to care and can be explored at your own pace.
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RootedReverb: Teranga rooted 3-minute self-guided meditation (English)
RootedReverb: Meditación guiada de 3 minutos con raíces en Teranga (Español)
Práctica de Anclas en colaboración con Organized Communities Against Deportations (Español)
Fuerte desde casa/Strong at Home: Reconnect with your body through movement (English)
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Support Printing & Distribution of Wellness Postcards
Our printing fees reflect the true cost of preparation and materials. We have developed a sliding scale rooted in equity and trust. We trust you to be honest in your assessment of your economic reality. Please self-select the tier that best matches your organization’s or group’s current situation. If you need to contribute less, please do so. If you can contribute more, please do so. Decisions to contribute are acts of solidarity and help to subsidize costs for organizations and community members who are unable to.
Thanks to funding from Schreiber Philanthropy, Healthy Communities Foundation, and VNA, we are able to offer a substantial number of Wellness Postcards in 2026. While we are committed to making all CIMH offerings as accessible as possible to our communities, we will have to revisit this policy year to year and assess what is within our financial capacity to provide.
Please select the quantity of postcards you need and choose the contribution tier that best reflects your organization’s resources:
CIMH Wellness Postcards
The CIMH Wellness Postcards are physically printed cards created to support individual and collective care during moments of uncertainty, stress and systemic harm. These postcards offer reminders and grounding practices for how we can care for ourselves and one another.
Inspired by the importance of Know Your Rights (KYR) cards as tools for safety, these wellness postcards are meant to serve as a companion resource focused on wellbeing, connection, and care. These postcards are physically printed.
*Currently available in English, Spanish, French, Haitian/Creole, Korean, Vietnamese, Kiswahili, Rohingya, Dari, Farsi, and Burmese.
Contribution Tiers:
Tier 1 - For volunteer-led or grassroots organizations with little or no budget for printing or professional development. If cost is a barrier, please feel free to select the No-Cost (Tier 1) option as these resources are meant to be accessible.
Tier 2 - For organizations with modest or constrained budgets where cost is still an important consideration.
Tier 3 - For organizations with stable funding that can cover full printing costs and help subsidize access for under-resourced groups.
*These are suggested contributions. We rely on your assessment of what works best for your organization. Our commitment is to ensuring these resources reach the communities who need them most.
How To Help Someone in Distress
Download or flip through this resource to learn concrete steps to support your friend, family member, or community member struggling emotionally with the heightened attack on immigrant communities and communities of color.
Read in English or in Spanish versions below.
Download the printable English PDF in COLOR or in BLACK AND WHITE
Download the printable Spanish PDF in COLOR or in BLACK AND WHITE
#LetsTalkFacts Toolkit
We need your help to spread the message! This Let’s Talk Facts Social Media Toolkit gives you everything you need to join this initiative. Inside, you’ll find:
Ready-to-share graphics for Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Bluesky, etc.
Sample social media posts to help you craft your message for #LetsTalkFacts and donations
Best practices for using #LetsTalkFacts to engage your community.
Our team is another resource as you reach out to your communities, and we are here to support you! Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us: info@ourcimh.org.
Together, we can amplify truth. Let’s talk facts–will you join us?
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Reimaging Mental Health Support for Migrants
This course is designed for non-mental health providers and focuses on the foundational level of mental health training.
A comprehensive online course that CIMH created in partnership with Anne and Robert L Hurie Children’s Hospital and the University of Chicago Crown Family School. The Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) funded this project.
Support for Immigrant Youth and Families in Illinois
Developed by CIMH and Lurie Children’s Hospital’s Center for Childhood Resilience, this updated resource packet offers critical support for immigrant, refugee, migrant, asylum-seeking, and other newly arriving families during a time of heightened uncertainty.
The packet includes information on available benefits regardless of immigration status, strategies for professionals working with immigrant youth, guidance for parents and caregivers, and key crisis resources.
Policy Reports
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Winter 2024
Policy and Advocacy Workgroup Updates. Debunking Common Misconceptions about Immigrant Communities.
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Winter / Spring 2024
Policy and Advocacy Workgroup Updates. Updates on USCIS Filing Fees, Federal bills and related policy reports and advocacy tools are also provided.
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Summer / September 2023
Policy and Advocacy Workgroup Updates. Updates on TPS, DACA, and the IL Migrant Reception Plan are provided.
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May / June 2023
Policy Workgroup Updates: IL HB3882 License and state ID bill, HB2866 Temp Worker Fairness and Safety Act, IL Action Alert: Pausing enrollment on Health Benefit for Immigrant Adult (HBIA, and more.
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April 2023
Policy Workgroup Updates: IL HB 3882, HB 2719, New Way Forward Act (HR 2374), Immigrants Mental Health Act (HR 2480) and Asylum & DACA Updates
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February 2023
Policy Workgroup Updates: Public Charge, Title 42 & Transit Ban, and the Afghan Humanitarian Parole Program
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January 2023
Policy Workgroup Updates: Public Charge, Title 42 & Transit Ban, USCIS Application Fees, and The Welcome Corp.