This article examines how the debate over child welfare system abolition or reform has overlooked the Office of Refugee Resettlement and the unaccompanied immigrant children it serves, calling for greater data access and participatory research to inform policy and practice.
This policy brief documents how the Trump administration’s immigration policies are separating families and undermining children’s rights and safety, and calls for an urgent recommitment to protections that prioritize family unity and children’s well-being.
This spotlight documents how escalating ICE and CBP enforcement is deterring unaccompanied children from accessing public education amid emerging threats to the Plyler v. Doe ruling that guarantees all children the right to attend school regardless of immigration status.
This toolkit offers research-backed, trauma-informed strategies and practical guidance to help clinical and non-clinical service providers support the well-being, resilience, and dignity of unaccompanied and separated children across a range of settings.
This practice guide equips service providers with trauma-informed, child-centered strategies — grounded in the CARE framework — to support children and youth experiencing prolonged detention in ORR custody and beyond.
This article explores childhood exposure to intimate partner violence (CEIPV) and intergenerational CEIPV (I-CEIPV) among young Central American immigrant mothers who were formerly unaccompanied refugee minors (URM) and offers implications for programs, policies, and research.
This report discusses how recent policy changes within ORR that break down pathways to release are keeping children in detention for prolonged periods of time
This article examines how the debate over abolishing or reforming the child welfare system has overlooked unaccompanied immigrant children served by ORR, calling for greater access to ORR data and more participatory research to inform policy and practice.
This resource addresses concerns about the Trump administration’s January 2025 expansion of expedited removal to the U.S. interior, providing common questions and legal arguments against applying this deportation process to unaccompanied children or special immigrant juvenile status recipients.
This policy brief documents how the Trump administration is using government agencies to separate families and remove thousands of children from the U.S., disregarding children’s rights and safety while deepening trauma and blocking reunification, and calls for urgent action to restore protections for family unity and children’s well-being.
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