This report provides insight into how gender, race, ethnicity and more affect formative developmental experiences in young people. It also provides recommendations for child welfare professionals on how to best support both parents and children through this process.
Read the ReportThis document offers a brief overview of law and resources for child welfare attorneys and others who seek options for immigrant children or parents.
Get the GuideThis factsheet describes the reunification process for foster children and their families, including resources and expectations of what may happen during and after foster care and how to best facilitate the return home.
Get the FactsheetThis study compares the social-ecological contexts of unauthorized immigrant families and their U.S.-born children to similarly low-income, urban, Latino immigrant families to identify differences arising from the parents’ legal status and interactions with the immigration system.
Learn MoreThis brief highlights the findings from a collaboration between the University of Houston and the University of Texas at Austin that examined the experiences of 40 undocumented Latino parents to better understand their experiences of living “without papers” in Texas.
Read Full BriefThis brief focuses on policies that address case planning for child welfare system-involved parents residing in a foreign country. Parents face multiple barriers to fulfilling case plan objectives when residing abroad, which in turn poses barriers to family reunification. Policies addressing case planning for parents residing in a foreign country aim to facilitate the process through which child welfare agencies and parents can collaborate transnationally in these cases.
Read the BriefThis brief focuses on policies that address the placement of dependent children with a parent or relative residing in a foreign country, typically for the purpose of reunification, guardianship, or adoption.
Read the BriefCoinciding with the release of ICE’s Directive on Facilitating Parental Interests in the Course of Civil Immigration Enforcement Activities, the Women’s Refugee Commission has released a two-page guide for detained and deported parents with child custody concerns. This guide, which ICE will make available in all immigration detention facilities housing adults for more than 72 hours, provides parents with steps they can take to protect their parental rights; information on family court proceedings, parent-child visitation, and coordinating care of children; as well as helpful ICE resources for detainees.
Read Full TextDeveloped by the MCWNN Practice Committee, this fact sheet provides information on how to contact ICE liaisons for inquiries regarding the Parental Interest Directive.
View the Fact SheetWritten by Benish Anver and Leslye E. Orloff, National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project, American University, Washington College of Law, 2014. This resource offers guidance to judges, attorneys, and advocates on securing the attendance of detained immigrant parents in family court proceedings, in accordance with the guidelines outlined in the Parental Interests Directive.
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