California lawmakers passed legislation requiring all educational institutions to alert families and staff when immigration authorities are on campus, similar to emergency warning systems, as the Trump administration continues mass deportation efforts.
The Trump administration has started requiring parents seeking to reunite with unaccompanied children to attend interviews with immigration officers, leading to some parental arrests while children remain in custody.
Lawyers successfully blocked a last-minute Trump administration attempt to deport Guatemalan children after a frantic middle-of-the-night legal battle, highlighting the ongoing clash between the administration’s mass deportation goals and established legal protections for migrants.
Many mixed-status families are experiencing fear and anxiety about encountering immigration enforcement officials at or near schools.
Guatemalan migrant children described feeling “traumatized” and “depressed” following the Trump administration’s attempted deportation of these youth over the Labor Day weekend, despite their ongoing immigration cases.
This blog examines key changes in the updated version of the Parental Interests Directive, reviews remaining ICE protocols, explains how to use the directive for oversight and accountability, and outlines congressional actions to protect detained parents’ rights.
A federal judge issued a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration’s directive that banned children without permanent legal status from enrolling in Head Start, after multiple state associations sued over the policy.
Increased immigration enforcement efforts are spurring family separation as parents must decide whether to be deported with their children or separate.
Many of the over 4 million mixed-status families in the U.S. are preparing emergency family plans in the face of ramped up immigration enforcement.
This article document growing resistance to the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts.
This webinar will examine the realities facing children in immigrant families, including current data, policy challenges, and community responses.
This Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month webinar will feature Dr. William Martinez from University of California, San Francisco to discuss strategies to reduce behavioral health disparities among ethnic minority youth, particularly Latinx and immigrant populations.
September 30, 2025 –The Center on Immigration and Child Welfare (CICW) is excited to share that the Walter S. Johnson Foundation has awarded funding for Empowering Child Welfare Practice at the Intersections of Immigration and Child Wellbeing, led by Dr. Kristina Lovato. This two-year initiative will partner with child welfare practitioners, legal service providers, and immigrant families to: conduct a comprehensive statewide needs assessment; develop and deliver evidence-based, trauma-informed trainings for up to 225 child welfare professionals; and produce a series of actionable practice briefs and peer reviewed publications. By centering the voices of directly impacted families and frontline practitioners, the project aims to close the gap between policy guidance and day-to-day implementation, ensuring culturally responsive, legally sound, and trauma-informed services for immigrant children and families across California. Stay tuned for opportunities to engage with the project’s trainings, practice briefs, and national presentations beginning in 2026.
This interactive deportation preparation website, based on Appleseed’s Deportation Preparation Manual for Immigrant Families, provides practical and accessible tools for families to prepare for the complex legal, financial, and emotional challenges of detention and deportation.
This series of fact sheets highlights the key characteristics of dual language learner children and their households, emphasizing both the diversity of this population and factors that may hinder access to early childhood services.
This study examines service access barriers for immigrant families with young children and provides community generated solutions within the unique context of New Mexico’s borderlands.
This resources describes the impacts of the budget reconciliation law on immigrant child and families.
This resource provides a summary of the executive orders and other policies impacting unaccompanied children in the first six months of the Trump administration.
This fact sheet reviews ICE policies and standards for child welfare stakeholders under the Detained Parents Directive, revised in July 2025.
This flyer reviews how to locate a parent in ICE detention and who to contact to facilitate visitation between parents and minor children.
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