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Disaster Preparedness in Migrant Communities: A Manual for First Responders

By | Culture: Issues & Competencies, Immigration Relief, Practice Highlight, Social Workers, Unaccompanied Minors

Disaster Preparedness in Migrant Communities: A Manual for First Responders

Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service (2017)

A guide providing insight into the unique experience of disasters for migrant/newcomer communities as well as best practices for preparing and responding for disasters in this context.

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Quick Guide to Federal Child Welfare and Immigration Law

By | Family Separation, ICE, Immigration Relief, Kinship Care, Legal Professionals, Legal/Law, Parenting, Practice, Social Workers, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS)

Quick Guide to Federal Child Welfare and Immigration Law

by ABA (March 15, 2017)

This document offers a brief overview of law and resources for child welfare attorneys and others who seek options for immigrant children or parents.

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The Effect of Hostile Immigration Policies on Children’s Mental Health

By | Child Well-Being, Deportation, Detention, Family Separation, Federal Policy, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Law & Policy, Law/Policy Highlight, Legal/Law

The Effect of Hostile Immigration Policies on Children’s Mental Health

The Children’s Partnership (March 2017)

Psychological harm and behavioral consequences from fear and stress can occur in children of immigrant families even if parents are not deported or detained.

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Family Preparedness Plan

By | Detention, Family Separation, ICE, Immigration Enforcement, Immigration Relief, Kinship Care, Practice Highlight, Spanish Resources, Youth & Families

Family Preparedness Plan

Immigrant Legal Resource Center (March 2017)

This planning guide (also available in Spanish and Chinese) helps immigrant parents in undocumented or mixed-status families prepare for the unexpected through concrete steps like arranging for alternative care for children if it should be needed.

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Unaccompanied Alien Children: An Overview

By | Child Well-Being, ICE, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Immigration Relief, Legal/Law, Research, Resources, Unaccompanied Minors, Unaccompanied Minors Research

Unaccompanied Alien Children: An Overview

William Kandel, Congressional Research Service (January 2017)

This report provides background and scope on the situation of unaccompanied migrant children in the U.S. as well as the current related policy landscape and practice in various government agencies to address this population.

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Translating “Best Interests”: Child Welfare Decisions at the US–México Border

By | Child Well-Being, Immigrant Youth, Legal Professionals, Practice, Social Work, Social Workers

Translating “Best Interests”: Child Welfare Decisions at the US–México Border

Naomi Glenn-Levin Rodriguez, Political and Legal Anthropology Review (Sept 2016)

The “best interest” principle is examined as effects judicial decisions affecting children. (Link provides abstract only without institutional or paid access.)

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Reunification: Bringing Your Children Home From Foster Care

By | Foster Care, Parenting, Practice Highlight, Youth & Families

Reunification: Bringing Your Children Home From Foster Care

Child Welfare Information Gateway, Factsheets for Families (2016)

This 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.

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Crisis on the Border: Specialized Capacity Building in Nonprofit Immigration Organizations

By | Immigrant Youth, Immigration Relief, Research Highlight, Unaccompanied Minors, Unaccompanied Minors Research

Crisis on the Border: Specialized Capacity Building in Nonprofit Immigration Organizations

Dyana P. Mason and Emily Fiocco, VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations (June 27, 2016)

This study examines two organizations serving unaccompanied minors crossing the U.S.–Mexico Border as well as the policy context for capacity investments and capacity building in the government and nonprofit arenas.

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