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Jun 27
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Court Halts Trump Administration Policy Prolonging Court Halts Trump Administration Policy Prolonging Detention of Hundreds Of Immigrant Children

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Court Halts Trump Administration Policy Prolonging Court Halts Trump Administration Policy Prolonging Detention of Hundreds Of Immigrant Children

New York Civil Liberties Union (June 27, 2018)

A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction ending a policy of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) requiring Trump-appointed director Scott Lloyd to personally review and approve the release of any detained immigrant child who is or has ever been in a heightened supervision placement while in ORR custody.

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Jun 26
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Supporting Children and Parents Affected by the Trauma of Separation

By | Child Well-Being, Deportation, Detention, Family Separation, Immigration Enforcement, Legal Professionals, Practice Highlight, Social Work, Social Workers, Trauma, Youth & Families

Supporting Children and Parents Affected by the Trauma of Separation

 Child Trends and the National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families, (June 2018)

As public officials and communities turn to the task of reuniting and supporting immigrant children and parents separated at the border, they face the difficult but critical work of helping these families heal after the trauma they have endured.In this brief, Maria A. Ramos-Olazagasti, a Center investigator, teams up with Jessica Dym Bartlett, a Child Trends expert on early child trauma, to offer research-based guidance for parents, communities, states, and the federal government.

Jun 21
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By separating immigrant families, we’ve caused irreparable harm. It’s time to make amends.

By | In the News

By separating immigrant families, we’ve caused irreparable harm. It’s time to make amends.

Luis H. Zayas, USA Today (June 21, 2018)

As a behavioral scientist, I know the pain I hear from these children is causing serious damage that has been wrought on these vulnerable lives. The need for the human bond is profound for infants, toddlers and older children. It is the attachment that helps in the development of positive social interaction, trust of others and the regulation of emotions and behaviors…

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Jun 20
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Incarcerating Entire Families Cannot Be the Solution to the Separation of Children

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Incarcerating Entire Families Cannot Be the Solution to the Separation of Children

Philip E. Wolgin, Center for American Progress (June 20, 2018)

Over the past two weeks, as the public has learned more and more about the Trump administration’s policy of separating children from their parents and keeping them in cages—a practice that former First Lady Laura Bush termed “eerily reminiscent of the internment camps … during World War II”—anger and outrage at the practice has echoed throughout all corners of the nation…

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Jun 20
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Separating kids from parents at the border mirrors a ‘textbook strategy’ of domestic abuse, experts say — and causes irreversible, lifelong damage

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Separating kids from parents at the border mirrors a ‘textbook strategy’ of domestic abuse, experts say — and causes irreversible, lifelong damage

Kevin Loria, Business Insider (June 20, 2018)

Under Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ new “zero-tolerance” immigration policy, everyone who attempts to cross the border is being prosecuted. Because of the way that policy is enforced, 2,000 children were separated from their parents in six weeks. Experts, mental health groups, and human rights organizations say this could cause serious, lasting harm to children and their parents. Here’s how forced family separation affects people for the rest of their lives.

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Jun 20
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Job Announcement: Florence Project Family Separation Attorney Fellow and Legal Assistant Positions

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Job Announcement: Florence Project Family Separation Attorney Fellow and Legal Assistant Positions

The Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project (June 11, 2018)

The Florence Project is responding to the urgent crisis of family separation by hiring a team to serve immigrant parents and children separated at the border. The Family Separation Fellow and Family Separation Legal Assistant will educate, empower, and provide legal assistance to immigrant families separated at the border–detained adults and unaccompanied immigrant children in removal proceedings in Arizona. These positions have been created in direct response to recent changes in government policies creating a zero tolerance policy at the border, and separating parents from children as an attempt to deter migration.

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Jun 20
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American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children 26th Annual Colloquium

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American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children 26th Annual Colloquium

The 2019 Call for Papers will be available soon at www.apsac.org or you can email APSAC at jcampbell@apsac.org to request a form. APSAC is soliciting abstracts for training, research, roundtable and poster presentations for the 26th Annual APSAC Colloquium in Salt Lake City, Utah. Join APSAC at one of the field’s premier forums for child maltreatment professionals to offer training presentations and report new research findings. Topics address legal, medical, mental health, investigative, preventive, and protective services work with abused and neglected children, their families, and perpetrators of abuse. Presentations are encouraged on all aspects of child maltreatment, including cultural diversity. Submissions are encouraged on all aspects of child maltreatment, including cultural diversity.

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Jun 20
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‘Tent cities’ for migrant children reportedly cost much more than detaining families together

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‘Tent cities’ for migrant children reportedly cost much more than detaining families together

Kevin Breuninger and Tucker Higgins, CNBC (June 20, 2018)

It reportedly costs $775 per person per night to keep the newly separated children of families who cross the U.S. border illegally in “tent cities. The per-person cost at certain detention centers that would keep families together is $298 per night, according to an agency estimate from 2014, NBC reported.

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Jun 20
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I Worked at a Child Migrant Center. What I Was Told to Do Was So Inhumane That I Quit.

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I Worked at a Child Migrant Center. What I Was Told to Do Was So Inhumane That I Quit.

Antar Davidson, Mother Jones (June 20, 2018)

Antar Davidson is a former employee at Southwest Key, a nonprofit chain of migrant shelters, who recently made headlines for talking about the cruel conditions at the facilities. Davidson started working at a Tucson, Arizona, center in February, two months before President Trump’s zero-tolerance policy was instituted. He quit his job earlier this month, after a supervisor ordered him to separate hugging siblings who believed their parents had died. Here Davidson tells Mother Jones, in his own words, about helping migrant children through martial arts, the changes since Trump’s zero-tolerance policy, and why he ultimately could not stay at his job.

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Jun 20
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Hispanic Couples in the Supporting Healthy Marriage Evaluation: How Representative are they of Low-Income Hispanic Couples in the United States?

By | Culture: Issues & Competencies, Immigrant Families Research, Parenting, Research Highlight, Social Work

Hispanic Couples in the Supporting Healthy Marriage Evaluation: How Representative are they of Low-Income Hispanic Couples in the United States?

Maria A. Ramos-Olazagasti; Lina Guzman; National Research Center on Hispanic Families & Children (June 2018)

This brief assesses the extent to which Hispanic participants in the Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) evaluation data set represent the broader U.S. population of Hispanic couples.

Jun 20
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How Well Do National Surveys Measure Hispanic Families and Households?

By | Culture: Issues & Competencies, Immigrant Families Research, Research Highlight, Social Work

How Well Do National Surveys Measure Hispanic Families and Households?

Lina Guzman; Maria A. Ramos-Olazagasti; Marta Alvira-Hammond; Emily Miller; Christina Padilla; Renee Ryberg; Claudia Vega; National Research Center on Hispanic Families & Children (June 20, 2018)

This brief examines the capacity of our nation’s data infrastructure to measure, describe, and understand the structure, diversity, complexity, and dynamics of Hispanic family life through the review of more than 20 mostly national surveys to assess the extent to which they include measures critical to understanding the characteristics and experiences of Hispanic families and households.

Jun 19
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How to Volunteer to Help Immigrant Children Separated from Family

By | In the News

How to Volunteer to Help Immigrant Children Separated from Family

Social Work Blog, NASW (June 19, 2018)

National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Board Member Guadalupe G. Lara, LMSW, an expert on social work and immigration, is encouraging social workers to advocate for these children and “to speak to some of the facts because there’s a lot of misinformation on the other side.”

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Jun 19
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Family separations at the border alarm child-welfare experts

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Family separations at the border alarm child-welfare experts

David Crary, Tampa Bay Times (June 19, 2018)

Child welfare has always been a challenging profession; state and local agencies across America make difficult decisions every day to separate children from their parents. But those agencies have ways of minimizing the trauma that aren’t being employed by the Trump administration in separating immigrant families at the Mexican border…

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Jun 18
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Leahy Leads Judiciary Democrats In Letter To Grassley Calling For Hearing On President Trump’s Family Separation Policy

By | Family Separation, Federal Policy, ICE, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Law/Policy Highlight, Legal/Law

Leahy Leads Judiciary Democrats In Letter To Grassley Calling For Hearing On President Trump’s Family Separation Policy

U.S. Senate (June 18, 2018)

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led all Judiciary Committee Democrats sent a letter to Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), calling on him to promptly hold a hearing on the Trump administration’s inhumane family separation policy. Since President Trump announced his “zero-tolerance” policy, nearly 2,500 children – some of them just infants – have been torn away from their families at the border.

Jun 18
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Keep Families Together Act

By | Child Well-Being, Detention, Family Separation, Federal Policy, ICE, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Law/Policy Highlight, Legal/Law

Keep Families Together Act

U.S. House of Representatives (June, 18 2018)

The Keep Families Together Act is recently proposed legislation to end the Trump Administration’s policy of separating families at the border.  The bill promotes family unity by prohibiting DHS officials from separating children from their parents, except in extraordinary circumstances.

Jun 18
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Code Red The Fatal Consequences of Dangerously Substandard Medical Care in Immigration Detention

By | Detention, ICE, Immigrant Families Research, Immigration Enforcement, Research Highlight, Safety, Trauma

Code Red: The Fatal Consequences of Dangerously Substandard Medical Care in Immigration Detention

Human Rights Watch (June 2018)

Based on the analysis of independent medical experts, this 72-page report, examines the 15 “Detainee Death Reviews” ICE released from December 2015 through April 2017.

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