This new toolkit provides resources and tips to child welfare agencies, other government agencies, and nonprofit organizations so that they can better serve Latino grandfamilies regardless of child welfare involvement.
This resource provides an overview of using community resource assessments in the context of international child welfare cases.
This presentation slide deck review strategies for creating child centered best practices in cross border children protection and welfare work.
With approximately one month until the election, this timely toolkit contains collected resources to assist in the advocacy of issues related to immigrant engagement.
With half of all children in California coming from an immigrant family, child welfare agencies in California must be equipped to effectively support immigrant children and families on the pathway to permanency. The objective of this toolkit is to provide guidance to child welfare agencies in California working with immigrant children and families.
Read MoreThis toolkit, available in both English and Spanish, provides information for detained parents and their advocates on how to prevent their children from entering the child welfare system, how to navigate the child welfare system, and how to make arrangements for their children when their immigration case ends. This toolkit will be available in all detention facilities that hold adults for more than 72 hours.
Access Toolkit in English Access Toolkit in Spanish Supplement with 2019 UpdatesThe goal of this document was to initiate and improve communications and to develop a tool kit to provide judges, attorneys and DCS case workers in Arizona with detailed information on how best to address child welfare cases that involve a transnational family – those with close members and meaningful ties in at least two countries.
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BRYCS maintains an online database of training curricula that address multiple issues associated with immigrant children and families’ involvement with child protection and child welfare systems.
Access Training DatabaseThis web seminar discusses: 1) what is happening nationally with immigration law and policy; 2) protections for immigrant families in child welfare; and 3) immigration relief options for children and families.
View the SeminarThis toolkit provides a basic overview of the dynamics of the U.S. immigration system as it impacts children and families in the child welfare system. The toolkit includes practical appendices with resources for accessing vital documents, facilitating communication between child welfare and immigration legal counsel, and a summary of immigration relief options applicable to youth in care.
Get the ToolkitThe Center on Immigration and Child Welfare is a project of the New Mexico State University School of Social Work.
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