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Empowering Immigrant Communities: Understanding Their Legal and Psychosocial Challenges

FRIDAY, June 20, 2025
10:00 am 鈥� 12:00 pm (eastern time)
Live Webinar on Zoom
(You will need to register to receive login information)

Registration: 2 CEU Credit Hours
General:  Through June 9, $50; June 10-June 19, $60
Wurzweiler Alumni and Current WSSW Field Instructors: Through June 9, $40; June 10-June 19, $50
All Current Students: $15
Registration closes on 06/19/25 at 5:00 Eastern Time (EST)

Immigrant communities are facing legal and psychosocial challenges like never before. 

Leora Botnick will consider immigration as a social driver of health and how one鈥檚 immigration status impacts access to health care, eligibility for benefits and health insurance, and health outcomes. She will examine social work interventions to address the significant psychological and emotional stresses facing immigrant communities.
 

Ellie Norton will address what ICE is legally empowered to do when it seeks to investigate and arrest individuals; how immigrants can prepare for and protect their rights during an encounter with ICE; and how health care and social service providers may deal with ICE officers and requests for information. 
 

Mark Kuczewski will describe a user-friendly model, known as "Sanctuary Doctoring," to support immigrant patients by providing information that enables them to address their concerns within the confines of the law. He will also explain the concept of sanctuary cities and policies.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be better equipped to:

1. Understand the psychosocial impact that immigration status and laws have on immigrant communities.
2. Understand the scope of ICE's power to arrest and conduct investigations.
3. Comprehend immigrants' legal rights in the event of an ICE encounter.
4. Understand health care and social service providers' legal rights in the event of an ICE encounter.
5. Identify psychosocial, educational, and legal resources for immigrant communities. 

Presenters 

Mark G. Kuczewski, PhD, is the Fr. Michael I. English, S.J., Professor of Medical Ethics and the Director of the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy at Loyola University Chicago. Mark is a past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) and a Fellow of the Hastings Center. 

Along with two physician colleagues, Mark created the Sanctuary Doctoring program to provide resources to physicians to support their immigrant patients. He was also the catalyst for Loyola University Chicago鈥檚 Stritch School of Medicine, becoming the first medical school in the nation to welcome applications from DACA recipients. 

S. Ellie Norton, JD, is a Clinical Teaching Fellow with Cardozo Law School's Immigration Justice Clinic. Prior to joining Cardozo, she was a Senior Practitioner in Residence at Seton Hall Law School鈥檚 Immigrants鈥� Rights/International Human Rights Clinic, where she represented detained immigrants facing deportation as part of New Jersey鈥檚 state-funded Detention and Deportation Defense Initiative. 

Ellie also served as a researcher and advisor for the Young Center for Immigrant Children鈥檚 Rights. She began her career as a litigation/international arbitration associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, where she had a significant pro bono immigration practice. 

Leora Botnick, MSW, LCSW, is a Social Work Supervisor at NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi鈥檚 Ambulatory Care. She is co-chair of the NYC Health + Hospitals Bioethics Council (the second non-physician to have this role) and Jacobi鈥檚 Ethics Committee. 

Leora is a consultant in Jacobi鈥檚 Clinical Ethics Consultation Service. Leora was previously a supervisor at NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln鈥檚 Oncology and Palliative Care Services and was co-chair of Lincoln鈥檚 Ethics Committee. She recently chaired an Empire State Bioethics Consortium workgroup on the involuntary removal of homeless people with mental illness. Leora has a private consulting practice focusing on advance care planning.

Podcast

Rabbis, chaplains, and social workers are often called on to provide spiritual care near life鈥檚 end. Whether in response to serious illness, advanced cognitive or physical decline in old age, or unexpected, tragic violence, health care professionals and clergy need to respond compassionately and effectively with families facing spiritual, emotional, and existential crises. Clips from Wurzweiler School of Social Work鈥檚 鈥淪pirituality Near the End of Life鈥� Conference in July 2019 include leading clergy, chaplains, and social workers offering their knowledge, skills, and wisdom to assist professionals seeking to better integrate spiritual care into their professional and community work.

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