The International Social Service, USA Community Resource Assessment
International Social Service USA (n.d.)
This resource provides an overview of using community resource assessments in the context of international child welfare cases.
Strategies For Resolving Cases Straddling International Borders
International Social Service, USA (n.d.)
This presentation slide deck review strategies for creating child centered best practices in cross border children protection and welfare work.
Federal Stimulus Payments Kept More Than 2 Million Latino and Black Children Out of Poverty During the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020
Dana Thomson, Lina Guzman & Renee Ryberg, Child Trends (September 17, 2021)
This brief report highlights how federal stimulus payments kept millions of children out of poverty, with Black and Latino children being the largest ethnic/racial groups impacted.
Supporting Unaccompanied Children in the U.S. Communities Where They Live
Migration Policy Institute (July 21, 2021)
This webinar provides perspectives at the federal, state, and local levels regarding how to best support unaccompanied children in the United States.
Most U.S. Hispanic Children Can Trace Their Heritage to Mexico, but Many Other Hispanic Children’s Family Roots Extend Across Latin America
Yiyu Chen & Lina Guzman, Hispanic Research Center (October 6, 2o21)
This report draws from the 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) to provide a full picture of U.S. Hispanic children’s roots throughout Latin America.
Policy Brief: The Severely Under-Resourced R&A Program is an Essential Tool to Meet Growing Needs for Affordable Immigration Legal Services
CLINIC (September 30, 2021)
This brief explains how underfunded the Recognition & Accreditation (R&A Program) is and how this prevents services from reaching remote locations and diminishes the capacity of nonprofit legal services.
A Guide to Anti-Racist Data Collection for: System Leaders and Data Administrators
Center for the Study of Social Policy (September 2021)
This guide provides best practices for collecting unbiased and more accurate data regarding demographics, race, and ethnicity.
Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil Immigration Law
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (September 30, 2021)
This memorandum provided by DHS calls to prioritize the removal of undocumented immigrants who are a threat to public and national security, but not on the basis of their undocumented status alone.
Worksite Enforcement: The Strategy to Protect the American Labor Market, the Conditions of the American Worksite, and the Dignity of the Individual
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (October 12, 2021)
This memorandum from DHS outlines new guidelines to stop worksite raids and to deliver harsher consequences to exploitative employers.
Growing Language Skills with Immigrant Families: Spreading and Adapting 2Gen Working Practices
The Aspen Institute (October 14, 2021)
This webinar discusses different approaches used to help grow language skills in the immigrant community.
