Helping DACA Children: An Option

The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights

6020 S University Ave Chicago, IL 60637-2704

Child Advocate Program

The Young Center provides bilingual, often bicultural Child Advocates who are appointed by the federal government to advocate for the best interests of unaccompanied immigrant children. The role of the Child Advocate is to ensure that all decisions on behalf of an immigrant child consider the child’s best interests—safety and well-being. The Advocate stands with the child at the center of the complex U.S. immigration system, accompanies the child to court, learns the child’s story, ensures the child has legal representation, and advocates for that individual child’s best interests. 

Young Center staff—attorneys and social workers experienced in immigration and child welfare law—provide best interests recommendations to immigration judges, asylum officers, deportation and removal officers, ICE trial attorneys, border patrol officers and other government officials. The best interests reports detail the issues at stake and make specific recommendations about the child’s safety and well-being whether they remain in the U.S. or return to their home country.

Population(s) Served

Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)

Immigrants/Newcomers/Refugees

Budget

$3,281,279

(773)702-9560

http://theyoungcenter.org

Facebook: TheYoungCenter, https://www.facebook.com/TheYoungCenter/