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Sophia Sepp

A Guide to Creating “Safe Space” Policies for Early Childhood Programs Available in Spanish

By | Opportunities

A Guide to Creating “Safe Space” Policies for Early Childhood Programs Available in Spanish

Center for Law & Social Policy (September 2025)

CLASP’s “A Guide to Creating ‘Safe Space’ Policies for Early Childhood Programs” is now available in Spanish. It equips practitioners, advocates, and policymakers with information, resources, and sample policy text to help early childhood programs protect families from immigration enforcement while safeguarding their safety and privacy.

Job Opportunity: Staff Attorney with Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights

By | Opportunities

Job Opportunity: Staff Attorney with Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights

Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights

The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights is inviting applications for the full-time position of Staff Attorney with its Technical Assistance Program. The position is open to applicants based anywhere in the United States, with preference given to applicants in the American Southeast or in cities where the Young Center has offices: Houston, San Antonio, and Harlingen, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; Washington, D.C.; Phoenix, Arizona; and Los Angeles, California.

Screening for Immigration Relief: Client Intake Form and Notes

By | Immigration Relief, Legal Professionals, Legal/Law, Practice, Practice Highlight

Screening for Immigration Relief: Client Intake Form and Notes

ILRC Attorneys, Immigrant Legal Resource Center (October 2, 2025)

This resource provides a comprehensive client intake form with accompanying guidance notes to help practitioners screen for immigration relief options, identify potential issues, and assess eligibility pathways during the initial assessment stage.

Staying Whole: A Love Letter to Immigrant Parents

By | Immigration Enforcement, Parenting, Practice, Practice Highlight, Youth & Families

Staying Whole: A Love Letter to Immigrant Parents

Children Thrive Action Network, National Parents Union, and Little Justice Leaders (October 2025)

This resource, available in English and Spanish, provides immigrant parents with mental health support, safety planning guidance, and strategies for talking with their children during immigration enforcement, addressing the emotional toll of federal immigration policies on families and communities.

The Unraveling of ORR: A Quick and Calculated Undoing of a System Intended to Protect Children

By | Child Well-Being, Federal Policy, Foster Care, Immigrant Youth, Law & Policy, Law/Policy Highlight, Unaccompanied Minors

The Unraveling of ORR: A Quick and Calculated Undoing of a System Intended to Protect Children

Neha Desai, Melissa Adamson, & Dr. Ryan Matlow; National Center for Youth Law (September 2025)

This briefing examines recent ORR policy changes, documents the barriers and extended custody times children face, presents expert psychological analysis of the harms caused, and proposes congressional solutions to improve outcomes for unaccompanied children in federal care.

 

Recent Trump Administration Policies that Impact Health Coverage and Care for Immigrant Families

By | Federal Policy, Law & Policy, Law/Policy Highlight

Recent Trump Administration Policies that Impact Health Coverage and Care for Immigrant Families

Drishti Pillai and Samantha Artiga, Kaiser Family Foundation (October 8, 2025)

This issue brief examines Trump administration and Congressional actions that restrict immigrants’ access to health coverage and care, analyzing how these changes will likely increase uninsured rates, reduce healthcare access, and negatively impact long-term health outcomes and economic productivity.

Making ‘Best interest’ visible: the role of frontline staff in the care of unaccompanied children

By | Foster Care, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Relief, Research, Research Highlight, Unaccompanied Minors, Unaccompanied Minors Research

Making ‘Best interest’ visible: the role of frontline staff in the care of unaccompanied children

Benjamin Roth, John Doering-White, Breanne Grace, Jessica H. Darrow, Aimee Herring, and Stefan Liew; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (August 25, 2025)

This study analyzes how ORR shelter staff interpret and implement “best interest” standards for unaccompanied children, finding that narrow compliance measures may obscure children’s lived experiences and affect their perceived deservingness of legal relief in immigration court.

All in for a Thriving Connecticut: Opportunities to Support Upward Mobility for the State’s Immigrant Families

By | Immigrant Families Research, Language Issues, Research, Research Highlight

All in for a Thriving Connecticut: Opportunities to Support Upward Mobility for the State’s Immigrant Families

Margie McHugh, Julia Gelatt, Colleen Putzel-Kavanaugh, Katherine Habben, Jacob Hofstetter and Julie Sugarman; Migration Policy Institute (September 2025)

This report examines how Connecticut’s state policies and services can better support immigrant integration and upward mobility, analyzing eight key areas including education, housing, healthcare, and workforce development based on interviews with state and local stakeholders.

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