Opportunities

Dr. Kristina Lovato to Facilitate Peer Dialogue at 2025 California County Immigration & Child Welfare Convening

November 6, 2025

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

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.

Webinar: Community Advocates for Young Learners Catalyst Webinar

Community Advocates for Young Learners (CAYL) • October 2, 2025 • 4 p.m. ET | 3 p.m. CT | 1 p.m. PT

This webinar will examine the realities facing children in immigrant families, including current data, policy challenges, and community responses.

Healing Across Borders: Promoting Resilience in Latinx and Newcomer Youth

Latino Center for Health, University of Washington • October 1, 2025n • 12:00pm-1:30pm PT

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.

CICW to conduct New Two-Year Project to Strengthen Child Welfare Practice at the Intersection of Immigration and Child Wellbeing

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.

22nd Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference

Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., Migration Policy Institute, and the Georgetown University Law Center • Oct. 9, 2025  • 9 a.m.-5:20 p.m. ET

The conference, with in-person and virtual options, will bring together leading experts, policymakers, attorneys, and advocates to engage in policy and legal analysis and discussion of some of the most important immigration issues that have surfaced in the U.S. policy debate.

ICYMI: New Free Training on Supporting Immigrant Children and Families in the Child Welfare System

New Mexico State University (August 2025)

This self-paced online training for child welfare professionals and other stakeholders draws from successful immigrant-serving child welfare models across the U.S. to address the unique challenges and opportunities that arise when working with immigrant children and families in the child welfare system. Three free Social Work CEUs are also available.

Standing With Families, Defending Immigrant Rights: A Conversation On Support, Safety and Resources 

UCLA Pritzker Center • August 6, 2025 • 12:00PDT/3pmEDT

This panel, featuring CICW Director Kristina Lovato, will provide practical strategies for supporting immigrant families and children during increased immigration enforcement, covering topics like discussing raids with children, creating family preparedness plans, and accessing resources for the back-to-school season.

End SIJS Backlog Coalition Guidance and Templates for Commenting in Response to USCIS’s Policy Changes Eliminating SIJS Deferred Action

End SIJS Backlog Coalition & National Immigration Project • July 7 & 28, 2025

Organizations and individuals can submit comments to USCIS on two recent agency actions that harm youth with Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS): (1) a USCIS policy change that eliminates the SIJS Deferred Action Policy, and (2) proposed changes to Form G-325A that would eliminate requests for deferred action based on SIJS. The deadline for comments addressing #1 is July 7, 2025 11:59pm ET and for #2 is July 28, 2025 11:59pm ET.