Fernanda L Cro
Biographic Data
| ID | 129114 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fernanda L Cro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fernanda L |
| FAMILY NAME | Cro |
| SIGNATURE | CRO F L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0770-9464 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Facilitators and barriers to Latino/a adolescents' help‐seeking behaviors
Latino/a adolescents report worse mental health than other ethnic–racial groups in the United States, including elevated depressive symptoms and anxiety, yet they remain less likely to access mental health services. Negative perception about mental health within Latino/a communities, shaped by negative beliefs about mental illness and limited knowledge of treatment, poses significant obstacles to care. Low mental health literacy, including poor u…
Factors That Impact Effective Public Health Communication With Michigan’s Latinx Population in the Context of Covid-19
The far-reaching impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Latinx communities is well-documented. This population has higher rates of COVID-19 infection and death compared with non-Latinx White Americans mainly due to long-standing problems related to Social Determinants of Health. Communication about issues such as health threats and safety measures are a vital part of public health, and need to be appropriate to the population of focus. To understand …
Fostering futures
Covid-19 Misinformation Through the Lens of Young Black and Latinx Michiganders
Participants had a healthy skepticism of COVID-19 information and a sense of responsibility to help their communities. Future work should explore the degree to which young adults may be impacted by misinformation despite their vigilance and how they might contribute to improved health communication
Black Mamas Matter
Movements such as MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) and the resurgence of anti-vaccine rhetoric promoted by figures like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. have amplified skepticism, particularly in Black communities already burdened by structural inequities and historical medical racism. These contemporary patterns of resistance reflect a broader continuity between COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and ongoing distrust toward public health institutions, underscori…
Incentivizing Immunity
Learning Objective Identify drivers of COVID-19 initial and booster vaccinations. Background Minority communities were disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, yet many expressed vaccine hesitancy. While a combination of incentivized strategies, namely financial and workplace rewards or mandates, seems to have boosted the rate of vaccination, little is known about the role of vaccine incentives in Black and Latinx communities specifically. Drawin…
What’s at stake?’ An exploration on the merits and drawbacks of the Welcome Corps Program, a private sponsorship of refugees
To address the decline in US refugee admissions, the Biden Administration launched ‘Welcome Corps’, a program that encourages Americans to welcome refugees arriving through the US Refugee Admissions Program. This article includes a historical overview of private sponsorship models in the United States and globally. In addition to an overview of the initiative, potential benefits include more US citizens to sponsor refugees and family sponsorships…
Life as We Knew It
Miceal Black and Latinx Perspectives on Covid-19 Vaccination
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Tobacco Use among Latinx Parents in the USA
The Role of Documentation Status Concerns, Perceived Discrimination, and Social Support on Latinx Adults' Physical and Mental Health
Latinx immigrants raising children in the land of the free
Anti-immigrant rhetoric generated by the sociopolitical climate under the current U.S. presidential administration has exacerbated the fear of deportation and family separation within the unauthorized Latinx community. Consequently, millions of families, including U.S. citizen children living in mixed-status households, are experiencing stressful environments as they adapt and respond to their social context. This study explored how harsh immigra…
Dismantling White Supremacy and Promoting Antiracism in Social Work
The social work profession in the United States is striving to advance antiracism amidst increasing threats of white supremacist violence. However, tensions and paradoxes in the contexts of academic research and knowledge development, education and teaching, and service undermine the profession’s efforts. Structural or institutional processes—in higher education broadly and in schools of social work specifically—shape who publishes research, educ…
Documentation Status Socialization as an Ethnic-racial Socialization Dimension
Ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) serves as a protective factor in the development of minority children. However, few studies have focused on mixed-status Latinx families to include the broad expression of their ethnic-racial socialization practices centering on their immigration experiences as they teach their children the risks and restrictions of having undocumented status. These parents adapt their ERS in accordance with their experiences of …
Demanding migrant/immigrant labor in the coronavirus crisis
The coronavirus pandemic of 2020 laid bare how migrant and immigrant workers are “essential workers” in the critical industries of agriculture/farming, meat production, restaurants/hospitality and health care in the United States. In this article, we discuss this demand for migrant labor and implications for social work. We argue that a labor-focused framework as critical perspective would complement the rights-based, participatory frameworks tha…
Documentation status socialization among Latinx immigrant parents
Discriminatory legislation targeting Latinx immigrants in the United States has shifted how parents communicate with their children about the hostile political climate. One way that Latinx parents talk about and prepare their children to face prejudice is through ethnic-racial socialization, which can promote children's positive development. Few scholars, however, have focused on how Latinx immigrant families with precarious documentation status …
Latinx adolescents’ ethnic-racial discrimination and expected future barriers over time
Expecting discrimination in one's future occupation is known to have negative implications for adolescents' career pathways. However, little is known about how such discriminatory expectations emerge. The current contentious sociopolitical climate toward immigrants, especially those of Latinx heritage, has contributed to heightened discrimination against adolescents in this group. The present study examined how experiences of discrimination over …
The Coronavirus Pandemic and Immigrant Communities
As the coronavirus pandemic has taken over matters of life and death globally, immigrant communities were some of the most deeply impacted. In the United States (U.S.), Latinx immigrants and other minorities have experienced greater economic burden and worse health outcomes, resulting in alarming rates of death from COVID-19. Yet the government’s relief measures to support individuals did not extend to millions of immigrants. This left many immig…
Inherently Political? Associations of Parent Ethnic–Racial Socialization and Sociopolitical Discussions with Latinx Youths’ Emergent Civic Engagement
The current study expands on ethnic–racial socialization (ERS) among Latinx families to include sociopolitical discussions as a way to better understand how these practices relate to adolescents’ developmental outcomes, including their ethnic–racial identity (ERI) and their sociopolitical development. More specifically, we examined whether there were direct links between parental ERS practices and sociopolitical discussions at home and adolescent…
Illuminating ethnic-racial socialization among undocumented Latinx parents and its implications for adolescent psychosocial functioning
The purpose of this study is to examine how parents' documentation status informs their ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) practices and the subsequent implications for Latinx youths' psychological adjustment. The mixed-methods approach combined convergent and exploratory sequential designs to explore the breadth and depth of Latinx parents' messages to their children regarding race and ethnicity. Qualitative data were used to generate hypotheses …
Ethnic Socialization, Family Cohesion, and Ethnic Identity Development Over Time among Latinx Adolescents
Understanding the promotive role of familism in the link between ethnic-racial identity and Latino youth school engagement
Illuminating ethnic-racial socialization among undocumented Latinx parents and its implications for adolescent psychosocial functioning
The purpose of this study is to examine how parents' documentation status informs their ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) practices and the subsequent implications for Latinx youths' psychological adjustment. The mixed-methods approach combined convergent and exploratory sequential designs to explore the breadth and depth of Latinx parents' messages to their children regarding race and ethnicity. Qualitative data were used to generate hypotheses …
The Coronavirus Pandemic and Immigrant Communities
As the coronavirus pandemic has taken over matters of life and death globally, immigrant communities were some of the most deeply impacted. In the United States (U.S.), Latinx immigrants and other minorities have experienced greater economic burden and worse health outcomes, resulting in alarming rates of death from COVID-19. Yet the government’s relief measures to support individuals did not extend to millions of immigrants. This left many immig…
Inherently Political? Associations of Parent Ethnic–Racial Socialization and Sociopolitical Discussions with Latinx Youths’ Emergent Civic Engagement
The current study expands on ethnic–racial socialization (ERS) among Latinx families to include sociopolitical discussions as a way to better understand how these practices relate to adolescents’ developmental outcomes, including their ethnic–racial identity (ERI) and their sociopolitical development. More specifically, we examined whether there were direct links between parental ERS practices and sociopolitical discussions at home and adolescent…
Latinx adolescents’ ethnic-racial discrimination and expected future barriers over time
Expecting discrimination in one's future occupation is known to have negative implications for adolescents' career pathways. However, little is known about how such discriminatory expectations emerge. The current contentious sociopolitical climate toward immigrants, especially those of Latinx heritage, has contributed to heightened discrimination against adolescents in this group. The present study examined how experiences of discrimination over …
Ethnic Socialization, Family Cohesion, and Ethnic Identity Development Over Time among Latinx Adolescents
Miceal Black and Latinx Perspectives on Covid-19 Vaccination
Demanding migrant/immigrant labor in the coronavirus crisis
The coronavirus pandemic of 2020 laid bare how migrant and immigrant workers are “essential workers” in the critical industries of agriculture/farming, meat production, restaurants/hospitality and health care in the United States. In this article, we discuss this demand for migrant labor and implications for social work. We argue that a labor-focused framework as critical perspective would complement the rights-based, participatory frameworks tha…
Life as We Knew It
Dismantling White Supremacy and Promoting Antiracism in Social Work
The social work profession in the United States is striving to advance antiracism amidst increasing threats of white supremacist violence. However, tensions and paradoxes in the contexts of academic research and knowledge development, education and teaching, and service undermine the profession’s efforts. Structural or institutional processes—in higher education broadly and in schools of social work specifically—shape who publishes research, educ…
Documentation Status Socialization as an Ethnic-racial Socialization Dimension
Ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) serves as a protective factor in the development of minority children. However, few studies have focused on mixed-status Latinx families to include the broad expression of their ethnic-racial socialization practices centering on their immigration experiences as they teach their children the risks and restrictions of having undocumented status. These parents adapt their ERS in accordance with their experiences of …
Understanding the promotive role of familism in the link between ethnic-racial identity and Latino youth school engagement
Ethnic Socialization, Family Cohesion, and Ethnic Identity Development Over Time among Latinx Adolescents
The Coronavirus Pandemic and Immigrant Communities
As the coronavirus pandemic has taken over matters of life and death globally, immigrant communities were some of the most deeply impacted. In the United States (U.S.), Latinx immigrants and other minorities have experienced greater economic burden and worse health outcomes, resulting in alarming rates of death from COVID-19. Yet the government’s relief measures to support individuals did not extend to millions of immigrants. This left many immig…
Inherently Political? Associations of Parent Ethnic–Racial Socialization and Sociopolitical Discussions with Latinx Youths’ Emergent Civic Engagement
The current study expands on ethnic–racial socialization (ERS) among Latinx families to include sociopolitical discussions as a way to better understand how these practices relate to adolescents’ developmental outcomes, including their ethnic–racial identity (ERI) and their sociopolitical development. More specifically, we examined whether there were direct links between parental ERS practices and sociopolitical discussions at home and adolescent…
Illuminating ethnic-racial socialization among undocumented Latinx parents and its implications for adolescent psychosocial functioning
The purpose of this study is to examine how parents' documentation status informs their ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) practices and the subsequent implications for Latinx youths' psychological adjustment. The mixed-methods approach combined convergent and exploratory sequential designs to explore the breadth and depth of Latinx parents' messages to their children regarding race and ethnicity. Qualitative data were used to generate hypotheses …
Documentation status socialization among Latinx immigrant parents
Discriminatory legislation targeting Latinx immigrants in the United States has shifted how parents communicate with their children about the hostile political climate. One way that Latinx parents talk about and prepare their children to face prejudice is through ethnic-racial socialization, which can promote children's positive development. Few scholars, however, have focused on how Latinx immigrant families with precarious documentation status …
Latinx adolescents’ ethnic-racial discrimination and expected future barriers over time
Expecting discrimination in one's future occupation is known to have negative implications for adolescents' career pathways. However, little is known about how such discriminatory expectations emerge. The current contentious sociopolitical climate toward immigrants, especially those of Latinx heritage, has contributed to heightened discrimination against adolescents in this group. The present study examined how experiences of discrimination over …
Latinx immigrants raising children in the land of the free
Anti-immigrant rhetoric generated by the sociopolitical climate under the current U.S. presidential administration has exacerbated the fear of deportation and family separation within the unauthorized Latinx community. Consequently, millions of families, including U.S. citizen children living in mixed-status households, are experiencing stressful environments as they adapt and respond to their social context. This study explored how harsh immigra…
Dismantling White Supremacy and Promoting Antiracism in Social Work
The social work profession in the United States is striving to advance antiracism amidst increasing threats of white supremacist violence. However, tensions and paradoxes in the contexts of academic research and knowledge development, education and teaching, and service undermine the profession’s efforts. Structural or institutional processes—in higher education broadly and in schools of social work specifically—shape who publishes research, educ…
Documentation Status Socialization as an Ethnic-racial Socialization Dimension
Ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) serves as a protective factor in the development of minority children. However, few studies have focused on mixed-status Latinx families to include the broad expression of their ethnic-racial socialization practices centering on their immigration experiences as they teach their children the risks and restrictions of having undocumented status. These parents adapt their ERS in accordance with their experiences of …
Demanding migrant/immigrant labor in the coronavirus crisis
The coronavirus pandemic of 2020 laid bare how migrant and immigrant workers are “essential workers” in the critical industries of agriculture/farming, meat production, restaurants/hospitality and health care in the United States. In this article, we discuss this demand for migrant labor and implications for social work. We argue that a labor-focused framework as critical perspective would complement the rights-based, participatory frameworks tha…
What’s at stake?’ An exploration on the merits and drawbacks of the Welcome Corps Program, a private sponsorship of refugees
To address the decline in US refugee admissions, the Biden Administration launched ‘Welcome Corps’, a program that encourages Americans to welcome refugees arriving through the US Refugee Admissions Program. This article includes a historical overview of private sponsorship models in the United States and globally. In addition to an overview of the initiative, potential benefits include more US citizens to sponsor refugees and family sponsorships…
Life as We Knew It
Miceal Black and Latinx Perspectives on Covid-19 Vaccination
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Tobacco Use among Latinx Parents in the USA
The Role of Documentation Status Concerns, Perceived Discrimination, and Social Support on Latinx Adults' Physical and Mental Health
Factors That Impact Effective Public Health Communication With Michigan’s Latinx Population in the Context of Covid-19
The far-reaching impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Latinx communities is well-documented. This population has higher rates of COVID-19 infection and death compared with non-Latinx White Americans mainly due to long-standing problems related to Social Determinants of Health. Communication about issues such as health threats and safety measures are a vital part of public health, and need to be appropriate to the population of focus. To understand …
Fostering futures
Covid-19 Misinformation Through the Lens of Young Black and Latinx Michiganders
Participants had a healthy skepticism of COVID-19 information and a sense of responsibility to help their communities. Future work should explore the degree to which young adults may be impacted by misinformation despite their vigilance and how they might contribute to improved health communication
Black Mamas Matter
Movements such as MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) and the resurgence of anti-vaccine rhetoric promoted by figures like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. have amplified skepticism, particularly in Black communities already burdened by structural inequities and historical medical racism. These contemporary patterns of resistance reflect a broader continuity between COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and ongoing distrust toward public health institutions, underscori…
Incentivizing Immunity
Learning Objective Identify drivers of COVID-19 initial and booster vaccinations. Background Minority communities were disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, yet many expressed vaccine hesitancy. While a combination of incentivized strategies, namely financial and workplace rewards or mandates, seems to have boosted the rate of vaccination, little is known about the role of vaccine incentives in Black and Latinx communities specifically. Drawin…
Facilitators and barriers to Latino/a adolescents' help‐seeking behaviors
Latino/a adolescents report worse mental health than other ethnic–racial groups in the United States, including elevated depressive symptoms and anxiety, yet they remain less likely to access mental health services. Negative perception about mental health within Latino/a communities, shaped by negative beliefs about mental illness and limited knowledge of treatment, poses significant obstacles to care. Low mental health literacy, including poor u…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (11 works) · Ethnic group (9 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Public health (7 works) · Immigration (6 works)