This webpage provides various resources for responding to human trafficking concerns among unaccompanied minors, including trainings, screening and reporting guidance, and prevention and awareness resources.
This memorandum provides information and links to resources on how to respond to human trafficking concerns for children and youth in foster care, including resources and training related to foreign national minors.
This resource provides an overview of the key services and activities of the NM Children, Youth & Families Department Immigration Unit as a model and guide for child welfare and juvenile justice systems serving immigrant children and families. It is also available in Spanish here.
This webpage contains a variety of introductory videos on topics related to working with unaccompanied immigrant children, including asylum, removal proceedings, trauma-informed lawyering, legal relief, and more.
This report documents the shortcomings of the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s “Significant Incident Reports” and provides recommendations on how ORR can overhaul this system in order to better protect the mental and physical health and safety of unaccompanied children.
This research brief developed by the Center on Immigration and Child Welfare focuses on post-release services for unaccompanied children and provides insights into the current gaps and needed improvements.
This report, informed by the perspectives of 32 unaccompanied young adults, contains policy recommendations to improve the system that receives unaccompanied children in the U.S.
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 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 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.
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