{"id":3123,"date":"2016-06-07T09:17:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T13:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2016-06-07T09:17:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T13:17:44","slug":"students-fill-a-gap-in-mental-health-care-for-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3123","title":{"rendered":"Students Fill A Gap In Mental Health Care For Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michael Tomsic, WFAE for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Patricia Becerril comes to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ncafcc.org\/clinic\/bethesda-health-center\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bethesda Health Center<\/a>\u00a0in Charlotte, North Carolina, every other week. And it\u2019s a slog.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt takes her two hours to get here,\u201d said Katherine Wilkin, a University of North Carolina at Charlotte master\u2019s student, translating for\u00a0Becerril. \u201cShe takes two buses, so coming here, she\u2019s definitely devoted to getting this treatment. She comes every time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wilkin is also Becerril\u2019s mental health counselor, and Becerril says Wilkin has helped her deal with depression. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/students-fill-a-gap-in-mental-health-care-for-immigrants\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=30329299&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_Opws3qmMqgqxLboBhlusxPrgK7_8cvnNbevp946Cb8hqjlOdeIGZqhsZ0j5guWkhY2iTv_2SfY_mRDt25UIYCHjic5Q&amp;_hsmi=30329299\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 15px\/1.6 'Open Sans', serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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