Resilience and Community Care Toolkit

This Toolkit from United We Dream provides tools and resources to support the health of those involved in the immigrant justice movement.

Contents

Introduction

United We Dream have curated a toolkit containing a variety of community-based healing care tools and resources to support those involved in fighting for immigrant justice.

Our Mission

Every day our immigrant community faces uncertainty as the federal government fails to deliver a pathway to citizenship and states across the country pass legislation that targets our people.

Organizing and showing up on behalf of our community can sometimes feel like swimming against the current, pushing us into a state of survival mode and chronic stress. We at United We Dream shout “No more living in fear, no more living in the shadows, and no more living in survival mode, we deserve to thrive!”

As freedom fighters, cultivating resilience and community care in our work is necessary for the longevity of our movement. For this reason, United We Dream created the UndocuHealth program, to ensure that we were investing in the joy and healing that our liberation efforts require.

UndocuHealth believes in the power of healing and transformation as fortifying forces that will hold our organizing for generations to come. We create trainings, tools and develop skills to aid with the dismantlement of generational and systemic trauma, we create awareness and normalize conversations around the value of mental health and we aim to decolonize hearts and minds by engaging immigrant youth of color in traditional forms of healing rooted in Indigenous and decolonial wisdom such as body-centered practices, plant based healing and spiritual ceremonies.

The UndocuHealth program invites us to embody the transformation and liberation we seek for our immigrant communities by honoring our daily practices and our spiritual resilience for we know that when we heal ourselves, we heal our world.

About the Toolkit

The UndocuHealth Program Resilience and Community Care Toolkit was designed to support you as an immigrant justice organizer and leader. In this toolkit we have curated a variety of community-based healing care tools and resources. Our hope is that you can incorporate these wellness practices into your daily organizing and lead them for others in your community.

The first section titled The Seven Steps to Keep Calm & Continue Organizing is designed to give you a step-by-step process in how to lead a community care circle for your local community.
The 101 Mindful Breathing section is for you to explore the power of breathing through meditation as a resilience tool that lives inside of us.
The Whole-istic Tools for Energetic Replenishment section is for you to explore traditional care practices that allow you to pour into yourself and restore your energy.
Lastly, we have compiled a list of relevant mental health and wellness resources to support you and your community