Who We Are

The mission of the CICW is to improve programs and policies related to immigrant children and families involved in the public child welfare system to achieve positive outcomes of safety, permanency and well-being. We envision a country where children of immigrants thrive in their families and communities. The CICW promotes and circulates research, creates policy and practice recommendations, develops and circulates resources, and provides leadership and guidance to child welfare agencies on policy and practice in working with immigrants.

Strengthening Border Families Research Project

Read the reports about the first and second phases of our ongoing Strengthening Border Families research project, a community-based participatory study that aims to understand the accessibility and quality of services as well as barriers and facilitators to service receipt among immigrant families with young children in the New Mexico borderlands. Additional publications related to this project are available here.