The CARE Intervention Toolkit equips professionals with a four-component framework—Connect, Assess, Respond, and Educate—to support unaccompanied children and youth in exploitative labor situations using principles of evidence-based Psychological First Aid.
This practice advisory analyzes whether juvenile delinquency acts would trigger the mandatory immigration detention provisions of the Laken Riley Act, arguing they should not based on longstanding immigration precedent.
The governor of Washington has ordered the creation of a rapid response team in the state’s Department of Children, Youth and Families to help migrant families who may be separated during deportation operations promised by the Trump administration.
A judge has extended rules requiring safe and clean conditions for migrant children in federal custody, a day after Border Patrol was set to go back to self-monitoring these conditions.
Mellissa Harper, an immigration enforcement veteran, has been chosen to lead ORR, raising concerns that children’s and families’ information could be used to target immigrants for deportation.
The Department of Children and Family Services in Illinois is preparing to support the children of families impacted by deportation and broaden services to immigrant families.
The Trump administration plans to resume detaining migrant families and is seeking private prison contracts to operate family detention facilities.
Immigrant parents of young children have started pulling their children from childcare while childcare providers also fear coming to work amid fear of increased immigrant enforcement.
Immigrant advocates are monitoring for violations of the 2023 agreement that bans most family separations for 8 years and protects migrant families previously separated during Trump’s first term.
A Florida activist is helping immigrant parents to prepare their families for the worst case scenario of parental deportation in the wake of President Trump’s inauguration.
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