Organizations Providing Information on Immigration and Child Welfare

Phone: (202) 662-1000

Fax: (202) 662-1755

The ABA Center on Children and the Law seeks to improve the laws, policies, and judicial procedures affecting children by supporting legal representation for youth, facilitating coordination between attorneys and caseworkers, reducing court delays, and providing training to court professionals involved in child welfare. ABA also supports National Reunification Month and updates this website each June: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_interest/child_law/project-areas/national-reunification-month/.

nadid: 11192

Toll-Free: (888) 572-6500

Email: info@brycs.org

General Scope: Bridging Refugee Youth and Children's Services (BRYCS) is a national technical assistance program addressing the challenges which refugee youth and children face in adjusting to life in the U. S. Its purpose is to broaden the scope of information and increase the collaboration among service providers for refugee youth, children and families.

BRYCS is a project of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops/Migration and Refugee Services (USCCB/MRS), and it is supported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Refugee Resettlement.

nadid: 11210

Phone: (612) 624-4231

Toll-Free: (800) 779-8636

Fax: (612) 624-3744

Email: cascw@umn.edu

General Scope: The Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW) was established with Federal Title IV-E funding and a grant from the Bush Foundation. The goals of the CASCW include preparing graduate students to work in public social services; providing practitioners, policy makers, researchers, and educators with timely information and resources to strengthen the child welfare system's capacity to respond effectively to the families who use its services; and enhancing child welfare training.

nadid: 11431

Phone: (773) 256-5100

Fax: (773) 753-5940

Email: webmaster@chapinhall.org

Chapin Hall is a research and development center focusing on policies, practices, and programs affecting children and the families and communities in which they live. The Center devotes special attention to children facing significant problems such as abuse or neglect, poverty, and mental or physical illnesses, and to the service systems designed to address these problems.

nadid: 11160

Phone: (415) 255-9499

Fax: (415) 255-9792

The Immingrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) provides legal trainings, educational materials, and advocacy to advance immigrant rights. The mission of the ILRC is to work with and educate immigrants, community organizations, and the legal sector to continue to build a democratic society that values diversity and the rights of all people.

nadid: 25218

Phone: (443) 451-1200

Fax: (410) 230-2741

Email: question@iss-usa.org

The International Social Services organization provides services to families and individuals regarding problems that cross national boundaries, including inter-country adoptions. ISS-USA also offers consultation and advocacy services on child welfare issues.

nadid: 11040

Phone: (202) 541-3000

Email: mrs@usccb.org

Migration and Refugee Services (MRS) serve and advocate for refugees, asylees, and other forced migrants, immigrants, and other people on the move. Special concern is given to the most vulnerable among these populations, such as, but not limited to, minors unaccompanied by parents or adult guardians and the victims of human trafficking.

nadid: 25221

Phone: (703) 299-6633

Email: ncfa@adoptioncouncil.org

The National Council For Adoption promotes the well-being of children, birthparents, and adoptive families by informing policy leaders, the media, social service providers, and the public about the positive option of adoption. The Council is a charitable membership organization with a variety or functions: a think tank for adoption awareness and information, a provider of public information and education, and an advocate for adoption.

nadid: 11042

Phone: (312) 660-1370

Email: nijc@heartlandalliance.org

Heartland Alliance's National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is dedicated to ensuring human rights protections and access to justice for all immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers.

NIJC provides direct legal services to and advocates for these populations through policy reform, impact litigation, and public education.

nadid: 25229

Phone: (319) 335-4965

Fax: (319) 335-4964

Email: lisa-daunno@uiowa.edu

The National Resource Center for In-Home Services (NRCIHS) serves as a national center of expertise regarding child welfare practice related to ensuring the safety of children and youth in their homes and making reasonable efforts to preserve families in which maltreatment has occurred.

The NRCIHS is responsible for providing T&TA to build the capacities of State and Tribal child welfare systems to safely maintain children in their homes; prevent children's initial placement or reentry into foster care; preserve, support, and stabilize families; and promote the well-being of children, youth, and families.

The NRCIHS is a service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

nadid: 24191

Phone: (202) 401-9246

Fax: (202) 401-5487

The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) provides new populations with the opportunity to maximize their potential in the United States. Our programs provide people in need with critical resources to assist them in becoming integrated members of American society.

nadid: 25230

The mission of CICW is to improve programs and policies related to immigrant children and families involved in the public child welfare system.

nadid: 30205

Toll-Free: (877) 247-4645

Toll-Free: (800) 375-5283

TDD: (800) 767-1833

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is the government agency that oversees lawful immigration to the United States.

USCIS provides accurate and useful information to customers, grants immigration and citizenship benefits, promotes an awareness and understanding of citizenship, and ensures the integrity of the immigration system.

nadid: 11073

Phone: (202) 647-4000

Toll-Free: (888) 407-4747

Email: Adoption@state.gov

The U.S. Department of State’s serves as the U.S. Central Authority on intercountry adoption. The Department actively works to ensure that intercountry adoption remains a viable option for children in need of permanency who cannot find homes in their countries of birth. The U.S. Department of State website provides both information and guidance to U.S. citizens interested in adoption from foreign countries.

nadid: 19862

Phone: (213) 223-2442

Phone: (212) 334-1300

The Vera Institute of Justice combines expertise in research, demonstration projects, and technical assistance to help leaders in government and civil society improve the systems people rely on for justice and safety.

nadid: 25231

Phone: (212) 551-3115

Email: info@wrcommission.org

The mission of the Women's Refugee Commission is to improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. The Commission researches their needs, identifies solutions, and advocates for programs and policies to strengthen their resilience and drive change in humanitarian practice.

nadid: 25232

Phone: (773) 360-8920

Email: info@TheYoungCenter.org

The mission of the Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights is to promote the best interests - safety, permanency and well-being - of unaccompanied immigrant children according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The Center offers a model through which Young Center attorneys, who have experience in immigration and child welfare law, recruit, train and supervise bilingual law and social work students as well as lay volunteers, who are assigned to serve as Child Advocates (guardians ad litem) for individual unaccompanied children.

The Young Center is part of the legal clinic at the University of Chicago Law School as an independent project.

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