This study seeks funding to conceptualize and implement a community-engaged pilot program in partnership with school-aged children and families of mostly Spanish speaking immigrant origin in West Los Angeles and the West Los Angeles branch of the public library. Bringing together psychosocial and academic components, the pilot program will provide a strong program of biliteracy development to emergent bilinguals (programa de lectoescritura bilingüe) focusing on emotional wellbeing through story-making and storytelling. Because emotional well-being and success in learning are complex and related processes, a transdisciplinary approach, involving experts in education and youth’s (mental) health, is needed to do justice to this complexity, as well as to provide sustained, comprehensive, culturally and linguistically responsive services to the community. This study is timely given the urgent youth mental health crisis affecting the nation, particularly among (im)migrant youth with a history of adversity.