Written by: Founding Executive Director of the Latino Action Network Foundation, Dr. Jesselly De La Cruz, LCSW, DSW During the first Trump administration, I spent countless hours sitting with families preparing for the possibility that a parent might not come home from work. In therapy sessions, we walked through emergency plans, memorized phone numbers, identified trusted adults, and talked about what children should do if a mother or father were suddenly detained. These wer

Written by: Jesselly De La Cruz Executive Director, Latino Action Network Foundation Past President, Latino Mental Health Association of New Jersey The first client I ever worked with was at 76 Clinton Avenue in Newark, New Jersey. I was a first-year graduate student in Rutgers’ social work program, placed at a small community center in the Lincoln Park section of Newark. He was a Puerto Rican man in his early 60s, recently discharged from the hospital after a heart attack an

The Latino Action Network Foundation convened a virtual roundtable on July 22 and July 23, 2021. The purpose was to inform policymakers,...

On August 2, 2021, the Latino Action Network Foundation and Salvation and Social Justice came together to host a virtual roundtable on...