Keeping Refugee Children and Teens Safe
Lisa Aronson Fontes Ph.D., Psychology Today (Aug 2, 2017)
Suicidality in refugee children and teens requires understanding of acculturative stress and other features.
Read the ArticleQuality for Whom? Supporting Diverse Children and Workers in Early Childhood Quality Rating and Improvement Systems
Julie Sugarman and Maki Park, Migration Policy Institute (August 2017)
This report examines how diverse providers access Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) and the processes built around them, what indicators can be used to better capture program elements that are valuable to immigrant and refugee families, and how the rollout of QRIS in different states has affected these communities.
Read the ReportWorking with Child Clients and Their Family Members in Light of the Trump Administration’s Focus on “Smugglers” Practice Advisory
Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc., July 2017
Designed for practitioners who are representing child clients in removal proceedings or advising family members of child clients in removal proceedings, this practice advisory offers multiple tips including risk mitigation strategies.
Read the AdvisoryChild support and mixed-status families: an analysis using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study
Lanlan Xu, Maureen A. Pirog, Edward D. Vargas, Social Science Research, Nov 2016
This research has implications for policy makers and researchers interested in reducing child poverty in complex family structures and underscores the need to revisit child support policies for mixed-status families. (Link provides abstract only without institutional or paid access.)
Read the AbstractRacial Disparities in Child Adversity in the US: Interactions with Family Immigration History and Income
Natalie Slopen, ScD; Jack P. Shonkoff, MD; Michelle A. Albert, MD, MPH; Hirokazu Yoshikawa, PhD; Aryana Jacobs, BA; Rebecca Stoltz, MPH; David R. Williams, PhD; Am Journal of Preventative Medicine, Jan 2016
Study examines racial/ethnic differences in nine adversities among children (birth to 17) in the National Survey of Child Health and determines how differences vary by immigration history and income. (Link provides abstract only without institutional or paid access.)
Read the AbstractThe Road to Adulthood: Aligning Child Welfare Practice With Adolescent Brain Development
Annie E. Casey Foundation (July 22, 2017)
This report provides insight into how gender, race, ethnicity and more affect formative developmental experiences in young people. It also provides recommendations for child welfare professionals on how to best support both parents and children through this process.
Read the ReportSpecial Immigrant Juvenile Status
Susan Schmidt, Encyclopedia of Social Work (July 2017)
SIJS is defined to explain its significance for immigrant children and for the role social workers may play in support of the status. (Link provides abstract only without institutional or paid access.)
Read the AbstractToolkit to support undocumented students
The Education Trust-West (2017)
Eight organizations have collaborated to create a toolkit designed for educators to better support undocumented students and their families with resources including classroom tools and strategies, fact sheets, guides and legal resources, sample resolutions, and social/emotional support resources.
Get the ToolkitMake a Plan: Migrant Parents’ Guide to Preventing Family Separation
Women’s Refugee Commission, undated
Available in both English and Spanish, this guide helps immigrant parents understand their rights and prepare for the possibility of separation.
Get the GuideU.S. Citizen Children Impacted by Immigration Enforcement
by American Immigration Council, March 28, 2017
This fact sheet provides an overview of these citizen children and the risks and challenges they may face as well as mechanisms designed to protect them when a parent is detained/deported.
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