Know Your Rights and What Immigrant Families Should Do Now
It’s important for everyone to know their rights if approached by an immigration (ICE) agent as well as how families can best prepare for something happening. This resource provides practical tips for things immigrant families can do now to prepare as well as information on rights everyone has in the United States, regardless of immigration status. Downloadable PDF files in 8 languages including English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Russian, Tagalog, and Vietnamese.
NJDOE Trauma-Informed/Trauma-Sensitive Practices
Offers guidance and tools for schools to implement trauma-informed/trauma sensitive practices, creating supportive learning environments for all students, and including those impacted by deportation or other traumatic events.
Teaching Tolerance: Supporting Immigrant and Undocumented Students
Provides strategies and tools for educators to support undocumented students and those from immigrant families, including addressing trauma, creating a safe, welcoming environment and informing students and families of their rights.
Supporting Immigrant Families and Students
Developed by the National Education Association (NEA), this website includes resources for educators on understanding the impacts of immigration enforcement and existing immigration policies.
Guiding Caregivers: How to Talk to a Child about Deportation or Separation
Offers guidance on how to talk with children about deportation or separation. This fact sheet guides family members, caregivers, as well as providers, on how to speak to children about these issues including, if it is appropriate to talk to children at all about such things and how to use analogies to explain the idea of deportation and separation.
The Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative (TLPI)
Ensures that all students, including those impacted by trauma, succeed at their highest levels in school and in life. We define trauma to include harms stemming from individual adverse experiences as well as from structural inequities like racism.