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Aug 02
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Separated Children Resources Website

By | Child Well-Being, Deportation, Detention, Family Separation, ICE, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Practice Highlight, Social Work, Social Workers, Trauma, Youth & Families

Separated Children Resources Website

Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health (July 2018)

The Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health has developed a website with resources to support families who have been separated during their time of need. Two types of resources are available: resources for children who have been separated from their parents and resources for caregivers and social service providers working to support these children and their families.

Aug 01
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Legal Referrals for Asylum Seeking Families

By | Deportation, Detention, Family Separation, ICE, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Immigration Relief, Legal Professionals, Legal/Law, Practice Highlight

Legal Referrals for Asylum Seeking Families

The Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (August 2018)

ASAP has created a spreadsheet of Legal Referrals for Asylum-Seeking Families, which lists (1) hundreds of private immigration attorneys in many states and (2) information on pro se help desks and other limited scope representation efforts in various cities. Additional resources are available here.

Jul 20
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Women’s Refugee Commission Intake Process for Removed Parents

By | Child Well-Being, Deportation, Detention, Family Separation, ICE, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Immigration Relief, Legal Professionals, Legal/Law, Practice Highlight, Social Work, Social Workers, Spanish Resources, Youth & Families

Women’s Refugee Commission Intake Process for Removed Parents

WRC (July 2018)

The WRC’s intake form can be used to collect key information that can help removed parents connect to legal resources and other needed assistance. Questions highlighted in yellow are particular to the ACLU lawsuit; the form includes specific consents to share information with the ACLU and/or with WRC if there is interest in doing so. If you are helping a parent complete the form, please make sure you record their consent as desired. Completed forms may be sent to intake@wrcommission.org, or uploaded to the Dropbox account noted on the form. Questions may also be directed to intake@wrcommission.org.

Spanish Intake FormEnglish Intake Form
Jul 19
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Familias Inmigrantes Separadas por El Gobierno Estadounidense Facebook Group

By | Child Well-Being, Deportation, Detention, Family Separation, ICE, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Parenting, Practice Highlight, Social Work, Social Workers, Spanish Resources, Youth & Families

Familias Inmigrantes Separadas por El Gobierno Estadounidense Facebook Group

CLINIC and Al Otro Lado (July 2018)

CLINIC and Al Otro Lado Facebook Group for Separated Families: For those working directly with separated families, CLINIC and Al Otro Lado created a closed Facebook group called Familias Inmigrantes Separadas por El Gobierno Estadounidense to provide separated parents with easy-to-access legal orientation in Spanish and an informal support group. CLINIC and Al Otro Lado also hope to use this Facebook group to find and connect deported parents. If you or your organization are welcoming and screening families, please share the flyer below with the families. Please note this group is exclusively for parents.

Jul 10
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Letters to Providers Reuniting Families

By | Child Well-Being, Culture: Issues & Competencies, Deportation, Detention, Early Childhood, Family Separation, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Legal Professionals, Parenting, Practice Highlight, Social Work, Social Workers, Trauma, Youth & Families

Letters to Providers Reuniting Families

University of Michigan and the Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health (July 2018)

These letters to providers (for case managers, etc) in English and in Spanish describe how children might express their grief and fear and provide suggestions about how to help parents help children in the context of family separation and reunification.

Spanish Version
Jul 10
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Cecilia and the Long Walk

By | Child Well-Being, Culture: Issues & Competencies, Deportation, Detention, Early Childhood, Family Separation, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Parenting, Practice, Practice Highlight, Social Work, Social Workers, Spanish Resources, Trauma, Youth & Families

Cecilia and the Long Walk

Julie Ribaudo, Sara Stein and Paige Safyer, University of Michigan (July 2018)

New English and Spanish resources for use with reunified children and parents, developed by experts in infant mental health and child development at the University of Michigan. This book may help parents help their children through the transition and reunification and process the traumatic experience of separation, and may be especially helpful for those agencies that are on the front lines helping to reunify children and parents. There are also accompanying coloring books (English and Spanish) and audio recordings (English, Spanish, and Combo).

English Book
Spanish Book
Jul 04
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Trump’s Policy of Separating Families at the Border: U.S. Law, Court Rulings and Administration Policy

By | Deportation, Detention, Family Separation, ICE, Immigration Enforcement, Legal Professionals, Legal/Law, Practice, Practice Highlight, Social Workers

Trump’s Policy of Separating Families at the Border: U.S. Law, Court Rulings and Administration Policy

American Bar Association, Civil Rights and Social Justice (July 2018)

A free webinar from the Rapid Response program of the ABA Group: Civil Rights and Social Justice.

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