Unaccompanied Children Resource Center
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Access WebsiteStress Related to Immigration Status in Students: A Brief Guide for Schools
Lisa M. Edwards & Jacki Black, Marquette University (2017)
This guide is designed to provide an overview of detention, deportation, and other immigration status-related stress and their impact on children and families, as well as suggestions for how school personnel can support families in this situation.
Get the GuideWebinar: Managing Trauma: Tips for Supporting Refugee Teens in Schools, Refugee Resettlement, & Other Contexts
Bridging Refugee Youth & Children’s Services (Dec 1, 2017)
This latest webinar from BRYCS builds off their Understanding Trauma in Refugee Youth webinar. Viewers can learn about some of the dilemmas facing refugee teenagers, how to converse helpfully and meaningfully with refugee teens, as well as ways to intervene more effectively with refugee teens, their families, and schools.
Watch the WebinarHow Today’s Immigration Enforcement Policies Impact Children, Families, and Communities
Joanna Dreby, Center for American Progress, Aug 20, 2012
This report looks at how immigration enforcement impacts family life in the U.S., both among immigrant and mixed-status families, and in their wider communities.
Read the ReportEveryday Illegal: When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families
Joanna Dreby, University of California Press (May 7, 2015)
This book explores the ramifications of inadequate immigration policy on Mexican immigrant families. It explores the threat that deportation poses and the stigma associated with status as an immigrant.
Get the BookTrauma Responsive Child Welfare Systems
Virginia C. Strand and Ginny Sprang, Springer International Publishing, Oct 25, 2017
This comprehensive reference offers a robust framework for introducing and sustaining trauma-responsive services and culture in child welfare systems.
Learn MoreThe New Importance of Children in America: A Wake-up Call for Policymakers
Dowell Myers, Children’s Hospital Association, Lucille Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, & USC Sol Price School of Public Policy (Oct 12, 2017)
This study finds that two trends, related to significant demographic changes, are creating challenges, elevating the economic role of next generations, and converging to make investing in the health and well-being of children more important than ever.
Read Full ReportThe Education and Work Profiles of the DACA Population
Randy Capps, Michael Fix, and Jie Zong, Migration Policy Institute, Aug 2017
This issue brief employs a unique MPI methodology to analyze the educational and labor force characteristics of the young adults eligible for DACA, comparing their outcomes to the overall U.S. population in the 15-32 age bracket, as well as similarly aged unauthorized immigrants ineligible for DACA.
Read the BriefTax Hike on Immigrant Families Would Drive Up Child Poverty
Jackie Vimo & Carrie Welton, National Immigration Law Center (Nov 14, 2017)
This NILC factsheet discusses the effects of losing the Child Tax Credit (CTC) on children in immigrant families, which lifts 1.5 million children out of poverty each year and mitigates poverty’s impact for millions more.
Get the FactsheetChild Care Choices of Low-Income, Immigrant Families with Young Children
Heather Sandstrom and Julia Gelatt, Urban Institute (Nov 7, 2017)
Using data from the National Survey of Early Care and Education, this brief reports differences in the child care settings foreign-born and US-born parents select for their young children.
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