This toolkit provides tips, resources, and guided practices on a variety of topics to assist sponsors of unaccompanied children in navigating the complex reunification process.
This list of resources provides an overview of all the resources available on the Girasol resource page to support immigrant children, families, and advocates.
This webinar will review immigration and family separation related trauma and discuss best-practice interventions to address the negative effect of family separation and reunification challenges.
This factsheet for immigrant and refugee parents highlights the challenges immigrant families may face while raising children in a new country and provides guidance and resources for navigating these challenges.
This factsheet for immigrant and refugee families explains the U.S. child welfare system and provides information on what families may experience if they become involved with the child welfare system.
This bulletin describes key considerations and challenges for child welfare agencies serving immigrant and refugee families and provides systemwide strategies that agencies can use to improve outcomes for this population.
This bulletin outlines key considerations for child welfare caseworkers working with immigrant and refugee families and provides strategies to improve services for this population that take into account the unique challenges and circumstances these children and families face.
This interactive story map highlights the findings and recommendations from a community resource mapping project that sought to identify the supportive services available to immigrant families in Doña Ana County, NM and to assess their level of inclusivity of the unique needs of this population. View the Spanish version of the story map here!
This training will inform practitioners on how to advocate and represent unaccompanied immigrant children.
President Biden has announced that the COVID public health emergency will end on May 11, 2023, a decision that may also end Title 42.
After 2 years of Biden administration being in office, 1000 immigrant children remain separated from their families.
This article presents three advocacy tips to promote immigrant access to SNAP benefits and help end hunger among these immigrant families.
This webinar will present the National Foster Care Youth & Alumni Policy Council’s new policy priority on supporting immigrant children & youth in foster care.
The Labor Department found that 102 children, including unaccompanied immigrant children, were working in hazardous conditions across eight states.
The Biden administration has proposed a new rule that limits aslyum access for migrants if they fail to apply first in another country or enter the U.S. illegally.
A bill is being considered in New Hampshire that would provide a pathway to lawful permanent residence for undocumented children under 21 who have experienced abuse, neglect, or abandonment.
The Biden administration has updated immigration rules for children seeking legal status through their parents, which should help decrease the amount of chilren who age out before obtaining their legal status.
Records indicate that the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has been preventing survivors of child abuse from seeking legal status through U visas.
The new CBP One mobile application is intended to aid with orderly processing of asylum seekers, but numerous flaws in the app are creating increasing barriers to asylees, especially families trying to seek asylum as family units.
This research used qualitative interviews with Latina mothers to gain insight on risk and protective factors for healthy development among Latinx youth in an agricultural community, beyond what may be captured by the ACEs measure.
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