This brief examines mixed-status families’ disproportionate experiences of material hardship and discusses relevant policy implications for addressing these disparities.
This interactive story map highlights the findings and recommendations from a community resource mapping project that sought to identify the supportive services available to immigrant families in Doña Ana County, NM and to assess their level of inclusivity of the unique needs of this population. View the Spanish version of the story map here!
This research used qualitative interviews with Latina mothers to gain insight on risk and protective factors for healthy development among Latinx youth in an agricultural community, beyond what may be captured by the ACEs measure.
This brief explores the experiences of North Carolina’s child care subsidy program staff when trying to engage Hispanic families during COVID-19.
This article, part of a special issue on Latino and Hispanic child and family well-being explores social service use among Latinx immigrant families after the deportation or one or more parents.
This article explored the impact of the 2016 presidential election and the leak of a proposed change to the public charge rule on immigrant families’ participation in food and nutrition assistance programs, finding significant and large decreases in SNAP and other nutrition program participation.
This research assessed immigrant families’ participation and experiences with seven public benefits programs in CA, finding that community organizations played a key role in connecting families to these programs and that many families avoided benefits due to immigration-related fears.
This research looked at pandemic related economic hardships such as food and housing insecurity among families with young children by race, ethnicity, and nativity, finding that Latinx and immigrant families experienced some of the greatest increases in these hardships.
This study explored the impacts of expanding Medicaid pregnancy coverage to undocumented immigrant women in California, finding increased insurance coverage and improved birth outcomes.
This research shows that despite the fact that U.S. citizen children in immigrant families experience greater poverty levels than other children in the U.S., exclusion from safety net programs prevent them from accessing needed social programs that promote their health and wellbeing, highlighting a need to eliminate these immigrant exclusions.
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