Title: Adjusting To America
Feed: CWKN #443, June 24, 2009
Time: 1:39
SUGGESTED LEAD: FOR THE CHILDREN OF IMMIGRANTS, NEW TO OUR LAND, ADJUSTING TO LIFE IN AMERICA CAN BE CHALLENGING.  THERE’S A NEW LANGUAGE, NEW FOODS, A DIFFERENT CULTURE… AND NOT EVERYONE WELCOMES YOU WITH KIND WORDS AND AN OPEN HAND.   CONNECT WITH KIDS TAKES A LOOK.
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NATS:  Samantha walk into room

NARR:  THIS IS A SUPPORT GROUP FOR HISPANIC CHILDREN WHO’VE RECENTLY COME TO AMERICA … (:04)

NATS:  kids

NARR:  THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT HOW STRANGE IT FEELS TO BE HERE. (:03)

SUPER:  Rogelio Sauceda, 9 years old, Mexico (:11)
“I don’t understand anything, here.”

SUPER:  Elda Samantha Perez, 12 years old, Mexico (:16)
“It’s … way different (shakes head).”

NARR:  TODAY ONE IN FIVE CHILDREN IN AMERICA HAS AT LEAST ONE FOREIGN-BORN PARENT… AND THAT NUMBER WILL GROW TO ALMOST ONE IN THREE BY 2015.

AND FOR THESE KIDS … SOME OF THE PEOPLE THEY’LL MEET MAY NOT LIKE THE WAY THEY LOOK OR TALK OR THE SOUND OF THEIR NAME. (:15)

SUPER:  Alejandro Perez, 12 years old, Colombia (:34)
“One day when like a teacher, she was like racist, and she went up to me and say, you will never be like an American kid.  So that was the hardest day I’ve ever been through.”

NARR: IT’S HARD … WHEN EVERY DAY YOU FEEL LIKE A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND. (:05)

SUPER:  Arlene Noriega, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist (:56)
“These children are in danger, great danger of academic failure.  Of dropping out of school.  Of getting involved in drug usage.  Of getting involved in sexual activity.  To feel accepted, to feel part of a group, that’s their ultimate goal.”

NARR:  BUT IT TAKES A WHILE… SHE SAYS… AND INEVITABLY, PARENTS WORRY ABOUT KIDS WHO SEEM LONELY AND ISOLATED … (:07)

SUPER:  Maria del Carmen Cepeda, 11 years old (1:20)
“She said, yeah they worry, because I come home from school and tell them about my day, and how the kids tease me.”

NARR:  TO TURN A STRANGE LAND INTO A NEW HOME TAKES THE STRONG SUPPORT OF EVERYONE:  FAMILY, TEACHERS, COACHES, NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS. (:09)

SUGGESTED TAG:  ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION CAN OCCUR IN YOUNG IMMIGRANTS. TO LEARN WHAT SIGNS TO LOOK FOR, LOGON TO (LOCAL URL) AND CLICK THE CONNECT WITH KIDS ICON.