ENCUENTROS: Responding to the youth mental health crisis

ENCUENTROS: Responding to the youth mental health crisis

Designed with and for the Latino community, we are really pleased by the increased interest in our Encuentros model of non-clinical peer-led emotional support groups. On July 11, our Executive Director Diego Uriburu’s letter to the editor was published in response to a Washington Post editorial on what governors can do about the youth mental health crisis. In the letter he describes how Encuentros participants are serving as agents of change by helping peers manage difficult emotions related to immigration, family separation and the pandemic.