This virtual summit will bring together leaders across workforce, foster care, juvenile justice, and healthcare to explore strategies for better protecting at-risk youth and building community pathways to safety and opportunity.
The Young Center’s Houston office is hiring for multiple positions, including a Managing Attorney, Staff Attorney, and Case Support Associate.
This guide for detained or deported parents and caregivers explains their legal rights and available resources to help them make the best decisions for their children, whether their children are staying with neighbors, in foster care, or in ORR custody.
This article explores childhood exposure to intimate partner violence (CEIPV) and intergenerational CEIPV (I-CEIPV) among young Central American immigrant mothers who were formerly unaccompanied refugee minors (URM) and offers implications for programs, policies, and research.
This report finds ICE routinely violated its own family unity and medical care policies, deporting parents without allowing them to make arrangements for their children and failing to provide adequate care for pregnant and postpartum women.
This amicus brief outlines the immediate and long-term harms to babies and children if birthright citizenship is eliminated.
This issue brief outlines concrete steps state and local governments can take to protect immigrant communities from financial exploitation and consumer abuse across areas like housing, fraud, privacy, and language access.
This toolkit offers mental health and emotional wellness resources for advocates and service providers navigating the stress of policy changes affecting immigrant communities.
This practice alert outlines a potential argument that may allow immigrant youth with approved special juvenile status petitions to access a broader path to permanent residency, even when pursuing non-SIJS immigration cases.
CICW Director Kristina Lovato delivered a keynote address at the Meeting the Moment: Immigration and Child Welfare conference in Brooklyn Center, MN. Her talk, Navigating Care Amid Immigration Enforcement: Child Welfare and Social Service Responses to Vulnerable Children and Families, explored how child welfare and social service systems are responding to the needs of children and families affected by immigration enforcement.
This issue of CW360° — featuring contributions from several members of the CICW research workgroup — offers a timely examination of how the current sociopolitical landscape and immigration status shape the lives of families, unaccompanied minors, and transition-age youth navigating an uncertain child welfare landscape.
This analysis finds that nearly half of Americans aware of immigration enforcement in their communities feared ICE contact in 2025, with ripple effects extending beyond immigrant families — including children experiencing emotional distress, adults avoiding essential activities, and families forgoing public benefits.
ISS-USA is actively recruiting social work professionals nationwide, with urgent openings in Oregon, New York, Maine, Alabama, and Pennsylvania (bilingual Spanish required).
This multi-part webinar series offers schools and community organizations trauma-informed, research-backed strategies for supporting immigrant students and families amid escalating immigration enforcement.
The Trump administration is using migrant children in federal shelters to lure parents into immigration detention, with attorneys reporting that many caregivers are being arrested while attempting to reunite with their children.
The Supreme Court case on birthright citizenship could affect every American parent, who would then need to prove their immigration status to establish their newborn’s citizenship, health insurance, and Social Security number.
Research links the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown to lasting psychological harm in immigrant children, including PTSD, anxiety, and disrupted development.
A 3-year-old immigrant girl was sexually abused in federal foster care during a five-month detention — one of many cases advocates warn have worsened since the Trump administration’s 2025 policy changes dramatically extended detention times for immigrant children.
ICE has detained over 6,200 children since Trump took office, with families reporting harmful conditions including poor medical care, limited education, and inadequate food.
© 2026 CICW.