This webinar discusses the intersections between the child welfare and immigration systems, possible state and local practices, considerations for the child welfare field, and recommendations for child placement, procedures, and staff training.
This webinar discusses how providers are utilizing cultural competency to better understand and connect to the immigrant families they serve. Topics discussed include, trauma-informed care, financial literacy, issues of gender norms, and immigrant and refugee mental health.
This event will discuss a report co-authored by the organizers regarding the impact of the Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) backlog. This report highlights data on petitions and green card applications, the impact on immigration court and foster care systems and recommendations for federal legislation.
This webinar will discuss barriers faced by family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) caregivers, potential policies and programs to assess FFN caregivers, and the importance of FFN caregivers to immigrant and Dual Language Learner (DLL) families.
This practice guide provides recommendations and steps child welfare agencies can take to improve how they address the needs of immigrant families and promote child well-being.
This article reviews the legal implications of immigration status on foster placements and provides promising practices and other recommendations for those working closely with immigrant caregivers in the child welfare system.
This resource provides an overview of using community resource assessments in the context of international child welfare cases.
This presentation slide deck review strategies for creating child centered best practices in cross border children protection and welfare work.
This brief report highlights how federal stimulus payments kept millions of children out of poverty, with Black and Latino children being the largest ethnic/racial groups impacted.
This webinar provides perspectives at the federal, state, and local levels regarding how to best support unaccompanied children in the United States.
This report draws from the 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) to provide a full picture of U.S. Hispanic children’s roots throughout Latin America.
This brief explains how underfunded the Recognition & Accreditation (R&A Program) is and how this prevents services from reaching remote locations and diminishes the capacity of nonprofit legal services.
This guide provides best practices for collecting unbiased and more accurate data regarding demographics, race, and ethnicity.
This memorandum provided by DHS calls to prioritize the removal of undocumented immigrants who are a threat to public and national security, but not on the basis of their undocumented status alone.
This memorandum from DHS outlines new guidelines to stop worksite raids and to deliver harsher consequences to exploitative employers.
This webinar discusses different approaches used to help grow language skills in the immigrant community.
This report explains the effects that immigration has on adolescents and children, including the prevalence of psychiatric disorders on this population and the factors that reduce negative outcomes.
New DHS guidelines prioritize detaining and deporting suspects of terrorism, those with serious criminal offenses, and immigrants who have recently crossed the border unlawfully.
On October 9, the United States and Cuba expelled over 160 Haitian children following the August earthquake in southwest Haiti that led them to flee the island.
Psychological assessments can increase an immigrant’s chances of being approved to stay in the country, but assessments are often costly and mental health professionals are overwhelmed by the demand.
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