Ana Chatham, PhD, LCSW is a T-32 postdoctoral fellow at the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. Ana’s research focuses on improving the mental health and wellbeing of Latinas/os through culturally informed prevention, intervention, and structural changes. Her research is grounded in her 10 years of social work practice experience serving clients in micro, mezzo, and macro capacities in fields including family preservation, domestic violence, and mental health.
This seminar will focus on the perspectives, experiences, and preferences of adolescents from rural communities in Mexico in regard to mental health and wellbeing and how these may inform the development and implementation of mental health supports in contexts where services are often inexistent and mental health remains highly stigmatized
