Abstract
In partnership with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, the Leah Zallman Center for Immigrant Health Research (LZC) is proud to release Immigrant Mental Health Services in Greater Boston: A Landscape Review. This landscape review identifies ways in which the current policy context and baseline standards of practice shape access and inclusion in immigrant mental health; compiles and categorizes the current landscape of programs and services available in the Greater Boston region in clinical and/or community settings that support and advance immigrant mental health including innovative models; delineates the distinctiveness of and need for immigration-informed care through a holistic, public health approach; and provides recommendations as an invitation for further engagement and dialogue with policymakers, community leaders, health practitioners, funders, and more to strengthen and sustain Greater Boston’s landscape for immigrant mental health.
While our team worked to compile this landscape review in the spring and summer of 2025, the United States federal government implemented a series of policies that increasingly threatened the stability, well-being, and safety of immigrants. Against this hostile and uncertain backdrop, our findings show a rich but siloed landscape of programs and services in Greater Boston. Our recommendations focus on addressing the lack of coordination between existing resources in Greater Boston, bridging clinical and community immigrant mental health models through policy, and incorporating the causes and effects of restrictive immigration policy into mental health research and practice.
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