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Immigrant Day - Self Reflection
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Immigrant Day - Self Reflection

I have lived as an immigrant for almost half of my life. Living as an immigrant for all this time is how I found the strengths and qualities that make me today. As an immigrant, leaving one’s country, family, and everything that is known since birth becomes a challenge that is not easily grasped.

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The Raw Truth about Abusive Partners in a Relationship
Elizabeth Hirata Elizabeth Hirata

The Raw Truth about Abusive Partners in a Relationship

Domestic abuse or intimate partner abuse incorporates many aspects of negative patterns in relationships. Unfortunately, domestic abuse does not discriminate by age, race, gender, faith, class, or sexual orientation. In terms of intimidation, manipulation, and control, the abuse can be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, spiritual, or psychological.

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The Impact of Racial Discrimination on Latino Women’s Mental Health
Elizabeth Hirata Elizabeth Hirata

The Impact of Racial Discrimination on Latino Women’s Mental Health

The Latino/a population encounters one of the most direct and cruel stereotypes in the United States. For Latinos in particular, it is very difficult to establish a credible reputation in American society despite all the efforts, the education, and the hard work put into these tasks. American-born individuals have the erroneous belief that Latinos, in particular, drain the country of its economic resources and do not contribute to a balanced economy. Some of them have even developed a racist ideology, prejudice, and nativist sentiments against this population.

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So What is Domestic Violence?
Elizabeth Hirata Elizabeth Hirata

So What is Domestic Violence?

For the sufferer, domestic abuse is hard to detect because of the abuser’s capability to calibrate him or  herself to the needs, fears, and wishes of the victim. Then, the abusive partner's interactions are manipulative, sudden, and coercive.

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A Message of Hope from SCG
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A Message of Hope from SCG

SCG Staff Therapist Diana Moscoso, Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate, reads Philippians 4:12 and discusses how to find grace and gratitude during this COVID-19 pandemic.

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Is There Hope in Substance Abuse?
Elizabeth Hirata Elizabeth Hirata

Is There Hope in Substance Abuse?

In an age when almost twenty-one million Americans suffer from at least one addiction, 500 people die every hour as a result of addiction-related causes, drug overdose deaths have tripled in the last thirty years, and the cost of addiction in America is over $600 billion a year, where do we go for help?

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