Into the Fold, Episode 57: Supporting Our Dreamers

In Texas, there are more than 120,000 recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program initiated under the Obama administration that provides administrative reprieve from deportation proceedings to qualified young people who meet certain criteria. Many of those young people are now on our college campuses, going about their lives as students. With DACA's fate now up in the air, it's time to take a look at the mental health needs of DACA students, or Dreamers, as they're know. Joining us for this important conversation is Sebastian Colon-Otero, a counselor at the Counseling and Mental Health Center at the University of Texas at Austin. He discusses his work with DACA students, how he understands his role as a therapist, and how to have a healing conversation in uncertain times.