PILSEN — A Latino man is leading a group working to normalize mental health care among Chicago’s Latino and immigrant communities, who are being impacted by Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Ricardo Camacho, a bilingual psychologist, Loyola professor and son of Mexican immigrants, started Salud more than two years ago to make mental health care more accessible to Latinos — and to make more people feel comfortable seeking it. Now, as immigrants face fear and anxiety from recent immigration enforcement operations, the need to access mental health care and “healing” is even more important, Camacho said.

Salud organizes mental health-focused community talks and healing circles that use evidence-based approaches. On Monday, the group is hosting a bilingual online mental health healing session, “

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