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Hector E. Chaidez Ruacho, LCSW (he/him/his)

PhD Student
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX, United States

Hector Chaidez Ruacho is a doctoral student at The University of Texas at Austin's Steve Hicks School of Social Work. Previously, he completed his MSW at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work and was the first Latino Male Fellow to graduate from the Yale School of Medicine’s two-year Post-Master’s Advanced Clinical Social Work Fellowship. Hector is currently an LCSW with training and experience serving Spanish-speaking Latine Immigrant families in various evidence-based practices, including trauma-specific and family-based interventions.

Hector’s research interests include understanding mental health access and utilization among the Immigrant Spanish-speaking Latine population, as well as improving the quality of mental health treatment for this population by drawing from Latine healing practices as much as from the mental health literature. This mission is exemplified in Hector's specialized knowledge of "dichos" with Spanish-speaking families through a cultural humility lens. Previously, he has been selected to present at several conferences, including the Connecticut Association for Infant Mental Health, the Austen-Riggs – Yale Conference, and the National Latinx Social Work Conference, among others.

Being an Immigrant himself and coming from a multigenerational migrant farm worker family, Hector recognizes that, much like farming, the movement to create a better mental health system requires the right tools and a community willing to work together. Hence, he hopes to be part of the collective effort to plant seeds strong enough to break the foundation of inequitable systems by contributing to antiracist and anti-colonial research and educating the next generation of Spanish-speaking Latine Social Workers.

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