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Accepted Paper:
Mental health care access and utilization as a factor in refugees achieving self-sufficiency
Nusaiba Chowdhury
(Southern Methodist University)
Paper short abstract:
Refugees resettling in the United States face various barriers to successful resettlement. This paper focuses on mental health care access and utilization as one key factor impacting refugees in Dallas, Texas elicited via interviews with staff from a local refugee resettlement agency and non-profit.
Paper long abstract:
Refugees resettling in the United States face various barriers to successful resettlement and achieving economic self-sufficiency, defined as "earning a total family income at a level that enables a family unit to support itself without receipt of a cash assistance grant" by the Office of Refugee Resettlement. This paper discusses interviews with 21 staff at a Dallas refugee resettlement agency and nonprofit and their perceptions of barriers to refugees achieving self-sufficiency with a focus on interviewee discussions of mental health care access and utilization.