Current Support Groups for Latine Individuals Impacted by the ICE Raids
To apply for any of these English-language groups, visit here. The application opens on Oct 1, 2026. This is just the information page for our current groups. All of our facilitators are bilingual in English and Spanish. If a group reaches capacity, don’t worry, we’ll be adding more groups as needed.
Eligibility for Groups:
These are closed-groups, and these groups are not psychotherapy, crisis intervention or immigration legal advice.
- Age: Must be 18 years or older.
- Detention or Deportation Experience. Participant must meet at least ONE:
- Personally impacted: Was detained and/or deported under the current Trump administration?
OR
- Family member impacted: Had a direct family member detained and/or deported within the designated 18-month eligibility period
- Direct Family Connection
- If the participant was not personally detained/deported, the person impacted must have a direct or significant familial relationship to them.
- Must identify as one of the following:
- Undocumented-only groups: Participant personally identifies as undocumented.
- Mixed-status groups: Participant identifies as being part of a mixed-status immigrant family/household.
- Must be emotionally impacted by the ICE raids.
- The participant’s current needs must be appropriate for a non-clinical peer support group.
Vallan a este link para ver los grupos en español.
For any questions, please contact hello@alejandrefoundation.org.
The Current Groups
Healing in Community/Sanando en Comunidad (1 hour, 30 mins)
This group meets weekly starting Monday, Oct 19.
Time: 4:00pm EST
Eligibility: Individuals from mixed status families.
A weekly support group for individuals and family members impacted by deportation and the detention of loved ones. Drawing on Internal Family Systems and Structural Family Therapy, members will build compassion for the parts of them carrying grief, fear, and guilt, strengthen family roles disrupted by separation, and learn practical calming resources — including tapping/bilateral stimulation from EMDR — while finding strength in community with others who understand.
Session 1 on 10/19: Creating Our Safe Space: Group agreements, confidentiality and its limits, and honoring each person’s story at their own pace. Psychoeducation on how chronic stress and separation affect the mind and body. Introduction to grounding and a first resourcing skill (tapping/bilateral stimulation) so members leave with a tool from day one.
Session 2 on 10/26: Naming What We Carry: Ambiguous loss — grieving someone who is absent but still living. Normalizing that this grief has no clear ending and is not “something to get over.” Validating that these losses occur within unjust systems, not because of personal failure.
Session 3 on 11/2: Living With Uncertainty: Fear, hypervigilance, and the exhaustion of waiting — for calls, court dates, news. Distinguishing what is and isn’t in our control; building daily rituals of stability. Practice of calm-place resourcing with BLS.
Session 4 on 11/9: Honoring Our Protectors: IFS-informed exploration of the parts that have helped us survive — the part that stays strong for everyone, the part that numbs, the part that overworks, the part that carries anger. Reframing these not as symptoms but as protectors that carry heavy burdens.
Session 5 on 11/16: Releasing Guilt and Self-Blame: Offering Self-energy and compassion to the parts that carry “I should have done more” or survivor’s guilt. Locating blame where it belongs — in circumstances and systems — rather than in ourselves or our families.
Session 6 on 11/23: Carrying It Forward: Integration — what each member has learned about their parts, their family, and their own resilience. Building each person’s ongoing support plan and resource toolkit. Closing ritual honoring both the pain and the strength in the room.
To learn more about your facilitator, Cesar, check out his Latinx Therapy bio.
Latinos Together Strong (1 hour, 30 mins)
This group meets weekly starting Wednesday, Oct 21.
Time: 5:30pm PST / 7:30pm CST
Eligibility: Individuals from mixed status families AND ages 18-25 years old.
Latinos Together Strong – A weekly support group for adult individuals who have had loved ones deported under this administration’s ICE raids. We recognize the many emotions that these traumatic experience can bring up, from grief and sadness, to anger and hopelessness. This will be a safe space where participants can connect and support one another, where all feelings and experiences are valid, and where we will work towards a place of change-making and hope.
Week 1 on 10/21– Introductions; establishing norms; collaborative creation of a safe space; explaining the scope and goal of the group; introducing the topic of family separation and its impact on families, with ask for a few share-outs from participants.
Week 2 on 10/28– Going deeper into the topic of family separation and its impact; psychoeducation on trauma, grief and loss, stress, anxiety, depression, and how these manifest in the body.
Week 3 on 11/4- Discussions on fear and feelings of vigilance and this “new reality” we might be feeling; discussions on how their experiences have impacted the broader systems they partake in, including their communities, schools, places of worship, places of business, and more.
Week 4 on 11/11- Bringing hope and strength to the forefront; discussions around past examples (personal or general) of strength and resilience in our communities; what can we take from these examples and utilize today? What changes do we want to create?
Week 5 on 11/18- Creating space for hope and joy; sharing of personal wins and triumphs; discussions around self-care, what it is, and why it’s important; sharing out favorite methods of caring for ourselves.
Week 6 on 11/25- Group closing, what do we hope to see in our futures? What have we taken away from our time together? Expressions of gratitude and good-byes.
To learn more about your facilitator, Crystal, please check out her Latinx Therapy bio
We Are Still Here (1 hour, 30 mins)
Group meets weekly starting Fri, Oct 23.
Time: 4:30pm PST
Eligibility: Undocumented Individuals Only.
“We Are Still Here” is a 6-week group for anyone whose family has been impacted by deportation or detention. It is a space to grieve, be angry, laugh, and remember together with people who actually understand. Each week holds room for both grief and community, because surviving this doesn’t mean giving up on joy and connection.
Week 1 on Fri, Oct 23: “We Are Still Here”
Introductions, guidelines, creating a brave space. Beginning with psychoeducation around sudden loss/trauma, disenfranchised grief, and ambiguous loss.
Week 2 on Fri, Oct 30: When it all changed
Dive into disenfranchised grief in a trauma informed way to not retraumatize. Normalizing fear, surveillance, silence, and the inability to grieve publicly out of fear of being found out. Include narrative therapy in the chaos of finding out, the phone calls, the children present, the not-knowing where they were taken etc.
Week 3 on Fri, Nov 6: What has been the cost?
Discuss compounding stressors. Normalize and reduce shame around the practical/logistical chaos around detainment. Secondary losses and new mental load around childcare, income loss, role shifts, the emotional labor of navigating legal systems, caregiver burden.
Week 4 on Fri, Nov 13: Naming the Emotions
Name and discuss the emotions that feel “too big” or “too scary” to name out loud. Permission to be angry, political violence, community anger.
Week 5 on Fri, Nov 20: Who are we beyond this?
Discussion on intergenerational strength, what our family/ancestors survived before, and how that lives in you.
Week 6 on Fri, Dec 4: Continuing in Community & How Do We Move Forward?
Discussion of continuing bonds. Closing celebration, naming another loss of community. Sharing of resources, community support. Celebrating joy and sharing grief.
Apply to this group here.
To learn more about your facilitator, Dulce, check out her Latinx Therapy bio.
The Space Between Us: Finding Our Way Through Separation (1 hour, 20 mins)
This group meets weekly starting Saturday, Oct 31.
Time: 10am PST
Eligibility: Individuals from mixed status families + ages 18-25 years old who have a parent/closed family member who has been detained/deported or separated.
This 10-week non-clinical support group provides a culturally responsive and supportive space for adults impacted by the detention or deportation of a loved one. Participants will build community, explore shared experiences, and learn practical tools for coping, connection, and resilience.
Session 1 on 10/31: Welcome & Building Community- Creating a supportive space and connecting with others.
Session 2 on 11/7: Understanding Family Separation- Exploring how separation impacts daily life and well-being.
Session 3 on 11/14: Changing Family Roles- Navigating new responsibilities and family dynamics.
Session 4 on 11/21: Caring for Yourself, Too- Prioritizing personal needs, boundaries, and well-being.
Session 5 on 12/5: Cultura, Familia & Community- Drawing strength from culture, family, and community.
Session 6 on 12/12: Moving Forward Together- Reflecting, identifying support, and carrying lessons.
To learn more about Denise, check out her Latinx Therapy bio.
