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... have important implications for state and local child welfare agencies. A growing share of children in the ... This report explores this diversity of approaches, drawing on interviews with child welfare officials from 14 states, six counties, and New York City. For each of ...
April, 2019
Report
... a learning lab for funders for an important conversation on the move to end detention. Participants were moved by our inspirational leaders from across the country who are fighting to end the policy ... please visit the program page for presentation slides and resources shared by the speakers. Deborah Lee , ...
September, 2019
Program Materials
... Dear Colleagues: In light of the intensifying attacks on immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, I want to keep ... DACA implementation, the DOTD network now comprises 20 sites in 15 states working to expand legal services, outreach ... to new challenges that arise, and provide the support and resources you have come to rely upon. While we will have less ...
July 31, 2018
President's Message
... to the infrastructure that protects asylum seekers and refugees coming to the U.S. From limited shelter capacity to harmful narratives ... mounting a robust humanitarian response. Fortunately, NGOs on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border have deep experience ...
April 15, 2021
Partner Program
... Hispanics in Philanthropy to host a second program focused on challenges at the border and the role philanthropy can ... localized funding efforts; and identify next steps to move resources in the region. This series is open to interested ... Queer Pueblo Daniella Burgi-Palomino, Co-Director, Latin America Working Group Felipe Navarro-Lux , Manager of ...
April 22, 2021
Partner Program
About More than 200 philanthropic institutions from across the country have signed onto this joint GCIR ... to long-established best practices and norms in the child welfare arena as well as basic tenets of morality and ... against their will. The newly issued executive order on family detention does nothing to reunite these separated ...
June 13, 2018
Statement
... We soon learned that all the men were immigrants from Nigeria, Guinea, Eritrea and Mongolia who’d been ... long periods of detention. As a former lawyer who focused on asylum issues, immigration detention has always struck me ... support from Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR), program officers from the Firedoll ...
September 30, 2019
Blog Post
... government forcibly separated more than 2,300 children from their parents as they crossed the U.S. border in search ... others have been released to communities across the U.S., from Los Angeles to Miami to Newark. They will need ... to support families. Our panel of experts will report on how the administration’s policy is evolving, and what we ...
August 16, 2018