Fwd: Join Our Medical Legal Collaborative to Support Asylum Seekers | Fall Self-Paced Training
Sarah Agamah
Greetings,
We are reaching out to you on behalf of the Chicago People’s Rights Collaborative. We are a newly reorganized, multi-institutional collaborative of volunteers, clinicians and trainees providing free forensic medical and mental health evaluations to survivors of torture and injustice in the Midwest.
We invite you to join our fall training series and to get involved in this work!
Our new, free, self-paced course “Forensics Training Series: Asylum Evaluations,” is CME-accredited, and affiliated with the Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). Learners can include students, trainees, licensed clinicians and more. The series focuses on conducting forensic evaluations of individuals seeking immigration relief in the U.S. and the preparation of expert medical-legal reports (affidavits) that play a critical role in corroborating an asylum seeker's case for safe-haven.
Asylum seekers with a forensic clinical affidavit prepared by trained clinicians are more than twice as likely to be granted asylum than those without. The need for these evaluations has increased due to changes in federal administration (and respective immigration law).
And if you are not a clinician, no worries! We have staff volunteer opportunities to get involved in the collaborative and we are actively looking for individuals to support in many other roles. If you do not anticipate being in the midwest long-term, we can also work to connect you to local initiatives that do similar work.
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions! Please see the training details below.
CPRC, outr...@chicagopeoplesrights.com
Forensics Training Series: Asylum Evaluations for Clinicians
Upcoming Live Sessions
Approaching the Forensic Asylum Evaluation | 09/17 with Braden Hexom MD (Emergency Medicine, Rush Medical College) & William Schiller JD (HSP Legal)
The Forensic Mental Health Evaluation | 09/23 with Aimee Hilado LCSW, PhD (RefugeeOne)
The Forensic Medical Evaluation | 10/01 with Braden Hexom MD (Emergency Medicine, Rush Medical College)
Preparing for Testimony | 10/12 with Victoria Carmona JD (Chicago Kent College of Law), Sarah Messmer MD (Internal Medicine & Pediatrics, UIC), & William Schiller JD (HSP Legal)
The Pediatric Forensic Evaluation | 11/02 with Sarah Messmer (Internal Medicine & Pediatrics, UIC)
The Gynecological Forensic Evaluation | 11/02 with Amy Blair Family Medicine MD (Loyola Stritch School of Medicine)
with more to come!
Learners need only RSVP for the training once to receive access to our training platform with included session recordings, training resources and links to each live session in this self-paced series. Following your completion of this training series you will have the opportunity to join our volunteer roster and participate in future evaluations, and as staff within the collaborative.
Please RSVP to the training series here:
https://bit.ly/asylum2021
For all inquiries regarding the training please email us at educ...@chicagopeoplesrights.com
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A. Sarah Agamah, MPH, MBA
pronouns: she, her, hers
MD Candidate Class of 2022