Working with Immigrant Families Regardless of Legal Status: Spreading and Adapting 2Gen Practices

Demonstrating the range of issues that can affect families in which some are citizens or permanent residents and others lack formal documentation, the Migration Policy Institute estimates that at least 14.4 million individuals in the United States live in mixed-status families that were excluded from initial 2020 COVID-19 stimulus payments.

In the second of our four-part Work Practices series, program staff from Chicago Commons, On the Move, and the Napa Valley Community Foundation shared replicable, creative strategies they have used to deliver 2Gen services to families, youth and children with immigrant status issues. These stories show how these programs are making sure all family members are supported, healthy, and feel welcome and safe in their place. These programs also share strategies on how to build staff capacity and cross-organization collaboration to help undocumented customers, and ways to access emergency funding for immigrant families.

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