The Youth Mentorship Initiative

 ICFamWell's Youth Mentorship Initiative is a youth driven program for undocumented citizens (between high school and college age) to come together and create a supportive and therapeutic community.

Accomplishments for the past 6 years

In celebration of our six-year anniversary!

Overview of our accomplishments (2005-2011)

In partnership with our project in Ecuador (Centro Integral de la Familia) ICFamWell:

Our ongoing work

"Collaboration as a Site of Personal and Institutional Transformation: Thoughts from Inside a Cross-National Alliance"

by: Sharon M. Ravitch, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education

La Puerta Abierta / The Open Door

As requests for locally-based, bi-lingual clinical support services for immigrant families in our local community have increased over recent years, ICFamWell was asked to assist in developing a similar model of training and support for locally-based (bi-lingual) practitioners who are also committed to serving families in our immigrant co

About ICFamwell

Intercultural Coalition for Family Wellness ("ICFamWell") is a small non-profit organization which provides mental health resources, training and mentorship to smaller, under-funded community-based programs in Latin America.

Our Mission

 In our international work (through our Ecuador- based partnership with Centro Integral de la Familia) we provide ongoing congresos (collaborative conferences) focusing on areas such as trauma, addiction, mental illness, family developmental cycles, family and community violen

The History of ICFamwell

Group conference photo

Before Intercultural Coalition for Family Wellness was established as a formal organization, its founder (Cathi Tillman) had spent many years traveling to Ecuador, providing support to a growing effort which had its reach throughout Latin America.