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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In this article, families describe how Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order disrupted their plans and prompted them to consider premature births or relocating outside the United States.
This article describes the harsh conditions of ICE detention in Texas, including ‘prison-like’ conditions such as lack of clean water, inadequate medical care and poor food.
A federal judge has issued a ruling that stops the Trump administration directive aiming to exclude certain immigrant children from Head Start.
The Trump administration has reportedly resumed family separations as a coercion tactic against immigrants and asylum seekers, with officials allegedly retaliating against those challenging deportation by misclassifying separated children as unaccompanied minors.
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