Join the CTA Immigration Working Group for: Unidos y Seguros:Keeping Immigrant Families and Children United and Safe
Donna Fallon Batkis
Join the CTA Immigration Working Group for: Unidos y Seguros:Keeping Immigrant Families and Children United and Safe
Saturday, September 13th: 11:30am ET/8:30am PT
A decade ago, our nation watched in horror as the government separated families at the Border and “put kids in cages.” Ten years later the government has launched a campaign that is orders of magnitude more threatening to immigrant children and families.
In this interactive presentation, Donna Fallon Batkis will lead you on an exploration of how YOU in Your Community can play a significant role in helping Immigrant Children and Families remain United and Safe, Unidos y Seguros. Participants will hear stories of both excruciating family separations and those of reunification and healing. Participants will learn of the principles of Eco mapping, Situational Awareness and non-violent civil involvement strategies based on the ethical and moral imperatives of the Gospel. In being asked to “welcome the stranger”, we are asked to turn strangers into neighbors and neighbors into friends. In friendship and fellowship, all are protected so that we may all be United and Safe, Unidos y Seguros.
Donna is a licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 36 years of experience and is considered an expert in the field of diagnostic evaluation and treatment of mental health conditions as they are experienced across the lifespan. She is qualified in both state and federal courts as an expert witness in the field of torture, abuse and trauma. Her academic and training history is extensive. She holds a Master of Science in Social Work from Columbia University in New York City, completed a Post Graduate Fellowship at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry in Child Development and Infant Mental Health, graduated from Seattle University’s CORPUS Program with a Master in Pastoral Ministry and holds a bachelor’s degree from University of Notre Dame in English.
Her life journey led Donna to serve as a Jesuit Volunteer in Seattle; to serve as a Campus Minister at Fordham University, volunteer in a Mexican Orphanage after the devastating 1985 earthquake. That experience and the de-humanizing of the war on drugs that she witnessed as a caseworker in the Bronx led her to become a Social Worker whose professional and personal life is a commitment to community building and non-violence. This commitment is expressed in her clinical work, her teaching, writing and community activism. She is also really funny!
Feel free to forward this announcement to those you think might be (or maybe could become) interested. If you need more information, contact Jerry at gdbrazier@gmail.com
Jerry Brazier is a member of the CTA Immigration Working Group.
