IMPACT Immigration

Proudly serving Immigration Psychology Access Team (IMPACT) for more than 2 years.

Psychological evaluations to support immigration cases are a straightforward and cost-effective intervention, and yet their impact can be lifesaving.

For immigrants in the United States, the fear and uncertainty of staying in the United States compounds daily, with ICE raids increasing in frequency, detention times in border facilities increasing in duration, and deportation without full due process increasingly commonplace. Many of these immigrants have the legal right to stay and seek the chance to make their case. Psychological evaluations often form the backbone of successful cases, roughly doubling the chance of their case being accepted, and yet very few immigrants can afford these evaluations.

Immigration Psychology Access Team seeks to keep families together and to ensure that deeply traumatized people can remain where they will find the services and support they need. In addition to providing subsidized evaluations, we are also developing a comprehensive training program to qualify more mental health professionals to conduct the evaluations, thus ensuring that more immigrants gain access to high-quality evaluations and to full due process.