Supporting Immigrant Youth: A Guide for School Counselors

By Sophia L. Ángeles & Dejanell Mittman
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This Educator Brief outlines how school counselors can better support immigrant‑origin students—who comprise 26% of all U.S. children—across socioemotional, academic, and college‑and‑career domains. It highlights the diversity of immigrant experiences and legal statuses, the layered impacts of trauma, acculturative stress, and discrimination, and offers concrete strategies such as culturally responsive classroom lessons, small‑group and individual counseling, collaboration with families and community organizations, advocacy for rigorous coursework and bilingualism, and guidance through complex postsecondary and financial‑aid landscapes so immigrant‑origin youth can thrive from K–12 through college and careers.