This guide provides an exhaustive list of over 50 strategies for educators in schools and early childhood programs to establish responsive environments for immigrant children and their families. Each strategy covers why it is important, how to get started, recommended resources and videos, and examples from the field.
This comprehensive list provided by the Immigration Learning Center includes a variety of resources in different categories that could be useful to immigrants, parents, and educators during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Women’s Refugee Commission, Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), Justice in Motion, and the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP formed a court-appointed Steering Committee as a result of the Ms. L v. ICE class action lawsuit. This lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in 2018 to try and halt the separation of parents and children as they arrived in the United States. The Steering Committee is still attempting to locate parents that were separated from their children. This flyer provides a toll-free number for parents to call in an attempt to reunite families.
Direct and financial disaster assistance could be provided to U.S. citizens, non-citizen nationals and qualified undocumented immigrants. This assistance is provided by FEMA and the state, territory or tribal government. Disaster assistance could involve money for temporary rental support, personal property loss, home repairs, and other costs that are not covered by insurance or other means.
Given school closures across the country, Congress created Pandemic-EBT (P-EBT) to meet the nutrition needs of students who received free or reduced lunch. P-EBT is a critical resource for immigrant families who will not receive government stimulus checks. Government agencies need to target immigrant communities to spread the word and benefit of P-EBT.
This table of information shows what programs immigrants are eligible for during coronavirus and implications for public charge rules.
This practice resources highlights ways that parents and caregivers can promote children’s resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic to help protect them from the trauma that can ensue which affects their development and well-being.
The Immigrant Connection Project (ICON) was created during the family separation crisis. This resource is for parents who were separated from their children. The Vera Institute of Justice also helps attorneys of these families in locating legal service providers who are working with these children.
This infogram shows who is impacted by the new public charge rule that went into effect on February 24, 2020.
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