This factsheet explains the existing return process for unaccompanied children returning to their home countries, and describes how KIND’s Child Migrant Return and Reintegration Program can support children throughout the process.
This series of Spanish documents provides guidance on the principle of the best interests of children and the assistance and legal defense of children and adolescents in human mobility.
This research brief by the CICW Research Workgroup provides background and highlights gaps in the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s Post-Release Services program for unaccompanied minors and offers research-based recommendations for improvements.
This research explored immigrant children’s mental health and impacts of various neighborhood and family contexts.
This policy brief discusses the state of immigrant children’s eligibility and coverage by Medicaid and CHIP in 2019.
This article summarizes current epidemiological knowledge of refugee youth mental health as well as related interventions, highlights current challenges and limitations, presents potential opportunities and recommendations in refugee child psychiatric epidemiology and mental health services research.
This advisory provides an overview of the SIJS-based adjustment of status process with a step-by-step guidance for both the affirmative process (i.e., for youth not in removal proceedings), and for the defensive process (i.e., for youth who are in removal proceedings).
This report and accompanying slide deck detail the results and recommendations of a study conducted by International Social Service USA to better understand cross-border placements and family finding and to identify systems that facilitate and support international connections for children and youth in the child welfare system.
This article analyzes data from United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR) to examine child maltreatment experienced by unaccompanied minors from Mexico and Central America and provides policy recommendations.
This policy alert from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services highlights the changes to the new Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) policy.
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