(soft music) (speaking in foreign language) - So, just going back to how you're feeling.

(speaking in foreign language) - When we arrived here, I felt I was safe because I couldn't hear the gunshots anymore.

- Yeah.

- Yes.

(speaking in foreign language) - The day when my husband passed away used to be really difficult.

(speaking in foreign language) I'm starting to forget the bad memories.

First, when we arrived, my family was split up.

One is still in Africa.

- I know you're still missing your daughter.

(speaking in foreign language) - The kids worry a lot and I notice that so now I avoid being quiet when they're with me.

- But that leaves you behind closed doors thinking about things sometimes.

(speaking in foreign language) He would be so proud of you, and the wonderful job you've done with your kids.

Yeah.

(soft music) (speaking in foreign language) - America.

(speaking in foreign language) - It's been a long trip.

(speaking in foreign language) It's a good thing that we're here now.

Let the life begin.

(chatting in background) (laughing) - You're very silly boy.

- I'm checking Christa's case to see if there is any change.

- Did you find something?

- Still trying to figure out the password.

- Yeah.

- Finally.

- See if there's anything else.

(chatting in background) - So it's saying the recent US court ruling has halted enforcement of the March 6 executive order.

A good judge decided to, like not to allow this executive order and that gives us hope that we're gonna see our sister Crystal very soon.

- She should have come with us.

It doesn't make sense us leaving.

- And she's there all alone with her son.

- Let's try and call Crystal.

- Hi, can you hear me?

- Yes.

- We can see you too.

- Last night Mom has a dream that you came.

She told me this morning and she was like, "She's coming for real.

That was my first time to dream and I met her in my dream."

And she's like- - That's the dream I received here.

(laughing) - But it give us some hope.

- When my family left, I was very depressed and I remember that day, that very day as if it was yesterday.

I lost hope.

- Before the war, we left for days.

- I remember my primary school.

We used to play soccer with friends.

- We had a huge compound in Congo with the boys and girls bedroom and parents bedroom.

My strongest memory like we were all together, that was a complete family.

- Dad was a lawyer.

He was working on a project with the UN about investigating rebels and the government.

But that did not please either the government and the rebels.

- Dad was poisoned.

He just fainted.

My mom, Patricia and Chris spent all night in the hospital with him and in the morning he was dead.

- Even after he passed away, we see that soldiers hanging out in our compound taunting us.

- We heard a sound coming from the back of the house.

We saw men in uniform.

They pushed my brothers to the ground.

It was like a nightmare.

I've been raped.

It was in front of my mom and my sister.

It was the darkest part in my life.

And every time I think about that, I'm like, "Am I really a human being"?

In my country, women suffer a lot with rape.

You are like an outcast.

They can't touch you.

They can't talk to you.

You are like a zombie, you are dead alive.

- They promised to come back.

So, if we stayed another night, maybe then, they wouldn't be alive.

- And that was the main thing that made us flee Congo, to Uganda to seek for protection.

- We're traumatized, seeing that as a kid.

That stay with you for a long time and it's hard to turn the page.

- It was hard for us to trust people, to open up to people.

I think it still is.

But we are learning again.

(somber music) (chatting in background) - It's kind of a weird feeling to have your parent be upset.

And you as the child, even though you're an adult, wanting to help your mom feel better and less stressed.

- She was strong enough to help us get out of Uganda to the United States.

Me as a son, it was very hurting me, seeing her doing all that and I couldn't do anything 'cause I actually couldn't do anything.

But right now that I have the opportunity to get, to go to work and get, yeah, go to school, I just want her to rest and me doing, taking care of her.

Like, I think it's my turn like, to pay back 'cause she did a lot.

- Having the experience of being a refugee and wanting to work with refugees, that's an amazing thing.

- I want to be a social worker because I like helping people.

Back in Uganda, I've seen a lot of people suffer and then didn't really have people helping them, trying to make their life better.

(soft music) (chatting in background) - Most of the patients that we see are refugees from any part of the world.

We have the services that no other place has.

We provide Western medicine with cultural competency, and traditional healing like acupuncture, massage therapy and cupping.

Treat people the way they want to be treated.

It's not treat people the way we want to be treated.

(instrumental music) (speaking in foreign language) - I'm writing a letter, we hope that they'll be able to understand the suffering that the ankle monitor is causing her and that they will remove it based on medical visit.

(speaking in foreign language) (marimba music) (speaking in foreign language) (instrumental music) (speaking in foreign language) - Which area do you feel uncomfortable?

- I think my shoulder and my back.

(hands clapping) - Okay, you're all set for today.

- I came into the United States in 2002.

2008, I been divorced.

It's not easy.

All the problems that happened to me and to my brother and my daughter, a lot of things.

My biggest challenges in my life is in the United States.

It's not in my homeland.

Doing everything by my own.

Learning the life day by day.

I worked yesterday ten hours and got only three clients and I work by commission, but I get used to it.

I said, "Oh, in January, it's okay it'll be spring soon.

Two more months."

Just remind myself, you know.

Hi, Kelly.

- Hi.

- Come here.

(laughing) (speaking in foreign language) I like the smell.

(speaking foreign language) When you don't feel good like on the shoulder, or something like, you feel like headache, - Yeah.

- Like anything like heavy on the shoulder.

You can do that, it feel a lot better too.

(chatting in background) The medical center is helping my whole family.

They feel like comfortable, for coming to see the doctor.

It feels like home.

- We started the health center in 2000 because we needed better access for the large Cambodian and Laotian communities.

One of the most important things was hiring people from the community and people who were bilingual, bi-cultural.

As time has gone on, the community has changed.

In thinking about culturally responsive care, you of course have cultural beliefs and practices.

But also, understanding the trauma that people have experienced, not just single individuals, but a community or a culture as a whole.

(upbeat music) - Cambodia, I love you.

Have long time.

(chatting in background) (speaking foreign language) The older generation find themselves very hard to express certain things freely.

So when I sense that with my patient, I would say, it's okay to ask questions.

I was born in 1969 so I went through the Khmer Rouge.

When my family and I arrived back in the 1980s, there's no organization that has the availability for a khmer interpreter.

My mom never had the GYN exam in her entire life.

And I, as a daughter, was serving as an interpreter, which was really awkward.

Hearing stories for my patient, it bring back memories, but hopefully that would make me stronger.

The experience that I have will help me give all that I can give to my patients.

Number one.

(speaking in foreign language) (instrumental music) (speaking in foreign language) (crowd chanting) - Three level health project is a grassroots organization that focuses on community building and empowerment as a means for improving health and wellbeing of recently arrived immigrant populations.

There are many barriers that impact one's health, such as lack of access to food, housing and jobs.

In addition to the clinic, our whole person care model seeks to address these factors through a holistic approach.

- The butterfly represent immigrants, how they moved from another country to another place for a better life.

- Edgar and I met at the street level health project.

We were both working in the lunch program, would wash the dishes together.

Our first they was going to march and then getting tacos after at the taco truck.

That kind of sums up our relationship in a way.

We both have the experience of having been undocumented, not being really able to say what we wanted all the time or be who we were all the time and having this experience of coming out as immigrants and as people who deserve to be here and who deserve to work and who deserve a good life like everybody else.

(crowd chanting) - I'm a bilingual employment specialist.

Our area, we focus on delivery workers.

We provide them with information based on workers' rights.

I know how it feels to be like that person that walks into that room for the first time looking for help 'cause you've never been helped or you've never asked for help before in your life.

When they tell me, you know what, I didn't have enough to eat, or I don't know what to do because I can't find a job because I don't have papers.

And I feel like I have that unique connection with community members because I've actually gone through it myself.

I want to become a social worker because when I was younger, I needed some guidance.

I just felt like that was missing.

The things that give me strength in my life is my family and especially my fiance, Shania.

(speaking in foreign language) - I have a Saturday class and then a Tuesday class I'm starting here and we're trying to reach everybody.

(speaking in foreign language) - I got introduced to yoga when I was about four in the Y.

When my mom and I moved to LA, there were no classes in Spanish or classes that we could afford so I wanted to provide that for someone that was like my mom or me.

There's always been a sense of uncertainty, even in the previous administration, there were a lot of deportations, there was a lot of splitting up a family's, kind of a constant state of fear.

We try to have a sense of community for people to come together to manage that stress.

Just being able to be okay for a little while and take a few deep breaths.

I now have deferred action for childhood arrivals or DACA.

That means that I can have a work permit to work here, but I can't leave the country unless I have permission.

So I haven't seen my dad, my sister and the rest of my family in 14 years.

This year is looking really uncertain for me.

I am applying to nursing school right now.

I don't know how I'm going to pay for it.

My own experience is what draws me to be a nurse.

Even though if something happened to my immigration status, I don't know if I could continue with school and then everything would change.

But I'm really more worried for what's happening to people who don't even have DACA and they have to keep dealing with what they were dealing with before but now with this new added visibility and fear.

(instrumental music) (speaking in foreign language) (wind chimes tingling) (people chatting in background) To speak to somebody in Mass Health there, yeah, the health benefits special - But I told the lady, should they go back home?

I've been waiting for them all day just for them to call you.

- In Massachusetts health insurance is there for everybody.

Everybody should be covered, Everybody should see a doctor.

- Did you start your schooling?

- In September I'm going to start the social work.

- That will be really great because the school department struggles with the social workers there because they don't understand our culture.

- I've been there before so I want to give back, to understand what people go through.

- Why took this position and meeting families and encouraging them, a successful community is my success.

But you should consider being committed to doing the community health worker training.

- They prefer us like, you know, if you're a doctor, don't expect to be working in the hospital in America.

If you're a lawyer, don't think that's going to give you the job in America.

You have to start with the factory.

- I told my children, I came here, worked in a factory and I don't want to go to a factory.

No, you have an opportunity.

You've grown up here.

Why not go straight up, pursue whatever you want to?

- I don't want her to work in factories like me.

Yeah, I want to have to work hard.

- But write those goals down.

What do I want by end of this year?

- Yeah, write down something.

- In talking to people, networking, meeting people will get you places.

- Hey guys, how are you?

- I'm good, thank you.

- Good.

So I wanted to talk to you guys today just about the new rules in the administration and how that has impacted your sister's case.

Under the previous administration, 110,000 refugees were allowed in, and that has now changed to 50,000 refugees this fiscal year.

- So what is the whole process together, from the first interview to the medical checkup, and the cultural orientation?

I don't know why it taking so long.

- Because we left her.

She's all alone in the house.

No one listens.

- She should know that like the support is there.

Right now she might not feel it.

(upbeat music) - Today is the Water Festival.

In Cambodia, normally they do in November, but then over here they do during the summertime, I'm feeling excited and I see all different Asians, like Lao, Thai, and Khmer.

It's not exactly like in Cambodia, but it's better than nothing.

(speaking in foreign language) - Well, we always here since the water festival started back to 1997.

This morning we have one patient has asked why you need to be here.

Everyone in Lao know about us.

If they doesn't know us, it's like they don't know Angkor Wat.

It's a good compliment for us.

- The sticky rice, not so good for diabetic patients.

I like it and don't show this to patients.

(laughing) It's important that we see our patients out of the uniform.

(laughing) (drums beating) (speaking in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) I'm proud of Kelly.

(instrumental music) (crowd chanting) (speaking in foreign language) I dance mostly because she wanted to when she was little.

But she couldn't.

- Their hair's like small, but mine grew like five inches.

- Good job.

- I want her to dance 'cause I want her at least know about the culture.

More like respect with the grandpa or grandma.

It's really good that my daughter know about the grandparent.

(speaking in foreign language) (solemn music) (wind chimes tinkling) (speaking in foreign language) - For older generation who come here, they never talked to their children about what they went through.

They don't want the children to suffer.

We just want to keep the bad things in the past so that we can move on with our life, but it's not always easy.

(laughing) Greetings to you.

(speaking in foreign language) - Meditation help my mom see how high blood pressure 'cause she worry too much.

Less stress, so her blood is going normal.

(speaking in foreign language) - We haven't seen each other for a while.

So to get enough sleep, meditate for half an hour, and then we will sit down and talk, discuss, all the issue.

(speaking in foreign language) (water splashing) (speaking in foreign language) (gentle music) (group chanting) (bell dinging) (speaking in foreign language) - When I went to college, the first time I was 100% undocumented.

I didn't have any work permit, no social security number.

Now my parents tell me when I first got my acceptance letter, they weren't really sure how we were going to do.

It seemed like it was a miracle.

Right now I'm applying to Cal State East Bay and I have all my transcripts, anatomy with lab.

My grade was an A. Chemistry, I actually took that long time ago and I didn't do as well.

I got a B the Cal Studies Way program is probably going to cost around $20,000.

Everything considered, I think the best choices for me to go to Merritt Community College and then transfer to state school after my first two years.

I feel a little like lonely or isolated in trying to figure out what the best path is for me.

All the legislation that passed to help people like me passed after I went to school.

I worked so hard to finish my school and to be able to pay.

And now, because I did that now I don't qualify for the Dream Act.

- You'll get really good news.

- I have been asking to, for my path to be revealed, to be able to know, like, where do I have to go?

What do I have to do?

And I'm just trying to trust that this is part of it, you know, it gave me a chance to think about, is this what I really want?

Do I really want to be a nurse?

Is it worth the struggle?

And yeah, it's worth it for me.

You know, I've been that person in the hospital that doesn't speak English, whose parents don't speak English and trying to navigate this whole new system that I've never been a part of before.

So I think I can bring that perspective.

I think it's important that immigrants, you know, people from all walks of life are able to serve the people from the communities that they come from.

- In my whole class, maybe two other people are Mexican.

My community needs to have a face that they can recognize and be like, okay, I can connect with this person.

This person is the same skin color as mine.

This person speaks my language.

That's why I wanted to become a social worker.

I remember I was trying to get an appointment to see about my DACA renewal.

- Do they still have that program that they help you pay?

- Yeah so what he told me was that I had to prove that I live here in Oakland, that I'm low income and that I really need it, you know, and then they'll pay for my fees, which is something that I was completely like tripping about.

- Every two years just to exist we have to come up with $500.

- It's like the car tags.

Every time we apply, we get our new tags for two years.

And then we have to renew two more years later.

- At least we don't have to get a smog check.

(upbeat music) - So Iris is a citizen of this country and she supports us.

She supports DACA.

And we're hoping that they'll pass a law that allows dogs to give their humans citizenship.

- In the future.

- She's like, I'm not going to do it.

(laughing) Stand up fight, fight.

Stand up fight, fight.

(crowd cheering) (loud speaker blaring) I need to iron my flag.

(crowd cheering) - I feel like I have to walk on eggshells every day.

I try to focus on helping my community.

There's a lot of people out there that all they want to do is work and they don't even have that opportunity.

I try to guide them the best I can.

Don't be scared.

It doesn't matter if you have papers or don't have papers.

You qualify for this program.

(crowd chanting) It feels really good being that person.

You weren't undocumented before and now you can give back.

I still believe that there's something positive that can come out of all this.

(crowd cheering) A lot of the colectiva members are recruited from corners where they wait in the morning for a job.

A lot of them are potential victims of wage staff, so we let them know that doesn't matter if you have papers or you don't have papers.

When an employer takes you to work with them, you have the right to ask for your payment.

We require all of the members to go through a medical examination, to take care of their bodies, to have that energy to continue doing that hard work that they do every day.

- We know that when a person is not able to have a safe environment to live where they do not have a safe and dignified job where they do not have access to healthy foods, this affects not just the individual health, but their family's health and the community as a whole.

Street Level Health Project and our work is collective, serves as an entry point into the healthcare and social services system.

(speaking a foreign language) - Hello, Mommy.

(speaking in foreign language) She loves to see me move forward and realize my dreams.

She's excited in general about me being a nurse.

She used to work at the public hospital so for her healthcare is a big deal.

I am signing my acceptance form for Merritt College Nursing School and this means that I'm committing to come here in the fall.

I feeling excited, nervous, happy.

I'm feeling so many things, in disbelief, I can't believe this is happening.

(instrumental music) - Are there sharks in there.

- Sure.

- Go in and find out.

You wanna try?

(speaking in foreign language) (upbeat music) - So here we are proving the health center.

We have the annual African Festival is the 18 year.

Becoming a medical interpreter or becoming a community health interpreter.

- Both of them.

- Both.

- Yeah.

- So we can talk later.

Yeah, thank you, nice to meet you.

- But it's sad I have to leave early.

(singing in foreign language) (drum music) - I think the best cook, right?

Compared to Mom's food and it's free, Mom's food is free.

- So a wonderful place.

I'm glad seeing people around.

- I got to meet a lot of people.

A lot of Africans in one place.

My friend I met in Uganda, I met them here.

My workmates.

- Very good.

(chatting in background) (instrumental music) Hi, I'm Nancy.

Hi, I'm Rodrigue.

Welcome.

Glad you're here.

- Hi, my name is Socheat Chan.

I'm a manicurist.

It been like 10 year, so it's the good opportunity that try to learn something and then help other people.

- That's great.

(chatting in background) Being social.

Reading books.

Participate in community.

Dancing.

(laughing) Social activities.

Somebody to talk to before it becomes a problem for you.

Meditation.

- I don't get these kinds of things on these lists very often in this class, the exercise, the dance, the singing, these are all really important factors and very helpful in either prevention or treatment of mental illnesses.

- Where are you working?

- I work at a company called Cardinal Health.

At first it was hard.

It was difficult, it was cold.

but then over time we got used to it.

How is it for you?

- A lot of struggles, especially the language, you know.

The mental health, I never heard that in my culture.

Right now I heard from the other people in Cambodia.

A lot of people kind of 80 or 90%, they have a mental health.

They stress from like the family or something else.

- Very easy to get lonely and to feel lonely in this country.

But if we don't have family support, I know some people who have to work, they drown into alcohol or drown.

I want to learn and give this knowledge to be able help people.

- Yes, me too.

- I haven't seen you in like two days.

We're in the same house.

- I've been working.

Every time especially when we have different schedules like when you sleep - Yeah.

May I do my speech?

- Yeah, sure.

- I was born in the Congo in a family of 10.

Since I was born, I've never witnessed peace.

My father passed away because of the war in 2003 and in 2005, my mom took a brave decision to get us out of the country to save our life.

In 2016 we finally got resettled in the United States.

We've met a lot of friends that are good people.

I'm so thankful to be here and I'm glad you guys have listened to my story.

- It was bad.

- I was bored.

- It was like really inspiring.

- They hear that speech is different from everyday, video games today, the whole day.

- I've never seen you this serious.

- I think it will make us proud.

- I will.

- It's comfortable to live in a lot of pillows.

And the first time I have a room to myself, I think the first time I be asleep in a hotel and I think my brothers would be jealous.

The first time I'd been away for like more than one day.

I don't miss them yet.

(serious music) - There's several workshops at the same time, lessons from two culinary medicine programs.

Maybe they'll have sushi.

Another one is overcoming barriers to serving victims of violence.

- If y'all want to go to that one.

I think I'll come for that.

- The last one is language access as healthcare quality.

- Yeah, I think I will go to that one.

- Our session starts at 12:45.

- I'm a little bit nervous, but I think I'm ready.

- Yeah, same here.

- We'll start at eight o'clock in the morning and eat in the lobby and go over and register.

- We want to increase wholeness.

We also want to acknowledge the harm that racism has caused.

We are looking at the consequences of wear and tear on the bodies of people who are then denied access to healthcare.

- We know what people need to be helped.

Before you start at medical school, you shouldn't let yourself be brainwashed by them who told you.

- I'll start my personal story in 1987.

Not because that's when I was born or even when I graduated from college, but that was the year that I interviewed with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to be the refugee health services planner for the state.

A decade later in 1997, when I started working at Lowell Community Health Center as its CEO, very few of the 25 to 30,000 Cambodians and Laotians in Lowell utilize the health center.

We did a lot of outreach to get people to come and to gain trust from a community that came from a time in Cambodia when no one could be trusted.

The name Metta Health Center, which means loving compassion, was provided by a Cambodian Buddhist monk.

We integrated physical and mental health using both Eastern and Western complimentary approaches.

- My responsibility at the time when we started clinic was to spread the word about Metta Health Center.

We are now on the 17 year of our operations.

Every time we have new population come, we need to invite a leader in the community to come to talk to us about healthcare policy and practice in their culture.

- Before leaving the Congo, we were attacked by the rebels.

That night after they left, they said that they come back the next day.

And if we didn't help them, they're going to get all of us.

I lost purpose in life.

I dreamed when I was a kid, but I stopped dreaming because I never thought that it would be better.

But finally, in September last year we came to Lowell.

My life experience like inspired me to also become a community health worker.

I want to help people who have gone through all that I have been.

And I want to thank you for coming and listening to my story.

Thank you so much.

(group applauding) - Is your mother also like someone very connected?

- Yeah, she's a teacher.

- She's a teacher, there you go.

That makes a lot of sense.

You want to give back.

- Yeah.

- We thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to come here and talk about our services at the health center.

- This is what our organization is about.

I mean, it's about, you know, providing the care that our patients need, whatever it may be like and really doing it so in a, in a manner that they feel comfortable with that care.

- I just wanted to thank you.

What you said was so valuable and just gives me so much more of a framework to go back home.

- That's why I tell my story, maybe to inspire people and.

- It's very inspirational.

It's very brave of you to do.

- Thank you.

(instrumental music) (speaking in foreign language) - This buildings is dedicated for the killing fields survivors and also for a younger generation to heal.

- We're all refugees, we all have some story to tell.

So that's why we brought Roderick here today.

So we may come from different country, but the struggle and the challenge may be somehow similar to us.

This is the time when the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia and that's its uniform.

When my brother had to dress like this to cover all the head so that the Khmer Rouge wouldn't see my face.

If they see that you feel sad, you cry, and that's when you get killed.

They separate between parent, children, so they go to different group.

They use this to cut people's throat.

It's hard to believe that Cambodian culture going.

This happened in Congo as well?

- Yeah, around '96.

And I was a victim of war.

I think if we stayed there for some time, we'll be dead by now.

- My mother was working hard in the field until she bled to death.

And my father was taken away and we never see him again.

And my two sibling died of malnutrition.

I think it's important to have the Memorial Museum here so that people can learn what happened to Cambodia so that this kind of thing will not happen again.

(gentle music) I hope it's not overwhelming for you to see all of those picture and the story that we mentioned to you.

- It was sad, but I think that experience can sometimes change your life and push us to do better.

And you have to, I also want to join the health care, try to help people through the trauma and everything that the world brought them.

- That's why when I came to refugee camp then I go to volunteer in the hospital right away.

By helping people also help us as well and to find the healing.

- Last semester was my first semester in nursing school.

I think the most stressful part was going to clinical.

I worked at a public hospital.

It was clear that it was underfunded and a lot of immigrants end up in the hospital.

I could really see their struggle.

Like I feel like I had a different level of understanding.

It was one day where I just got out and I broke down in tears.

I've been kind of trying to keep my status secret.

I don't know what the school would say if they know that my work permit would expire.

I don't know if they would let me continue.

It doesn't allow me to provide care without being triggered sometimes.

Sometimes I just want to be able to listen to someone's story without having stories in my head about how that's similar to me or when that happened to me.

Sometimes I just want to be able to just be with somebody.

That's something that I work on.

Somebody tells you I'm scared.

My family is being separated.

I haven't seen my sister, cousin in years and you're sitting there like, yes, me either.

I'm just wondering about what the relationship is between serving people and being in community with people.

(speaking in foreign language) - A big priority of mine for her now that she has the ankle monitor removed, is to really focus on the diabetes, which is only exacerbated by the stress that she's feeling.

A lot of the community is really frightened and afraid even to come out and go to their healthcare appointments because of fear of immigrations and customs enforcement in Oakland.

(speaking in foreign language) (drums beating) - Dia De Los Muertos means honoring those that have passed away.

This is Oakland workers' collective altar.

Everybody helped out in one way or another, the significance of it was remembering all those that have tried to cross the border and have passed away and those that did cross the border, but never made it to their destination.

I try to reflect the community's resistance by the candles.

We didn't put no pictures because a lot of the people that passed away I've never been reclaimed.

A lot of people are found dead in the middle of the desert.

They get taken in by immigration.

They're just forgotten.

We have El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, to understand there's a lot of people that come from different countries.

- In Uruguay we don't have a Dia De Los Muertos.

I don't even remember knowing about it until I moved to the US.

- Wow.

- Growing up in my family, I don't think we had a very healthy relationship with death.

It was more like, oh, the scary forbidden.

I enjoy being able to talk about it, celebrate it.

Ceremony, ritual, remembering, honoring is so important for our own healing whether it's our family who passed away and we want to remember them, or whether it's the whole community who was suffering, the whole community who might be dying.

It's art and it's really healing.

(upbeat music) (drums beating) - My whole family's coming today.

My parents, my youngest brother and my daughter and I. I'm reserving the ricel for my grandpa on my dad's side passed away.

- We need to treat people as a whole, not just the body to not just physical, also mind, but the mind is not only about mental health.

It's about what they believe, what they thinking in their spirits.

- I got flu shot today at the Buddhist temple from the Metta Health Center.

My daughter's generation's different from me.

I cannot talk back to my parents, but the way that she talked back, is the right thing.

I learned from my daughter too.

I'm so proud of her and so proud of my parents, that I can take care of them.

When I go into the darkness, I'm not feel afraid like before.

(calming music) - We wanted to take off the Christmas tree, but when my dad was still alive, it was part of the culture.

Keep the Christmas tree until January 14th 'cause that was my mom birthday.

When we had the good news that Christelle is coming we were like, we've got to keep it, like, for her.

- From New York, it went to Delta, at 11 p.m. Tonight I didn't sleep.

- Just ring your phone number, even if she's in America already.

- I remember how we left her, how she looked like.

It's going to be good to see her again.

It's going to be a big relief to all of us.

- I feel like crying, I feel happy.

I feel anxious, I feel nervous.

Everything is mixed together.

- I feel happy and I feel sad, both.

You feel like a bit uncomfortable because we left her behind.

- Yeah, I'm gonna be at work.

I'm not gonna be there.

- If she's strong, I'll be strong.

If she's crying, I don't know.

- In a quarter mile take exit 13 to Raymond Wieczorek drive east toward Manchester, Boston, Regional Airport.

- We have some memories.

We don't know if we can forget, but we try.

- You miss someone, but there's nothing you can do by your power.

You can't forget the person, but you learn how to live without the person.

(people mumbling) (speaking foreign language) - Oh my god.

Oh my god.

- I'm so as if I'm dreaming, I want someone to pinch me.

- After what happened to me, I was like, oh, I want to die.

Life has stopped.

Now I'm in the US, I'm starting my life.

It's getting normal and I have hope that tomorrow will be better.

I want to tell all the women who have been through all the rape, to be strong and to never give up.

My mom, she's almost 60, but she wants to be a doctor.

We take it from her.

We want to go back home, open a big hospital and help women especially.

People can make a difference.

If they stand for what is true and what is right, they can make a difference.

(upbeat music) - I solemnly pledge in the presence of this assembly.

- I solemnly pledge in the presence of this assembly.

- As a professional nurse and patient advocate.

- As a professional nurse and patient advocate.

- To devote myself to those committed to my care.

- To devote myself to those committed to my care.

- I shall maintain and promote.

- I shall maintain and promote.

- The health and dignity of all patients.

- The health and dignity of all patients.

(crowd cheering) (upbeat music) A Place To Breathe is underwritten for public television by the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers.

A Place To Breathe was also funded with the generous support of the following foundations and individuals.

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