Beyond the Border: Supporting Unaccompanied Immigrant Youth in Child Welfare

Learn how to provide trauma-informed, culturally responsive care to youth who arrive in the United States without caregivers. Get practical tools, resources, and strategies to transform your practice—and the lives of the youth you serve.

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Describe the federal child welfare infrastructure serving unaccompanied immigrant youth and the roles of key agencies.
• Identify the intersecting social, legal, cultural, and mental health needs of youth who arrive without caregivers.
• Apply trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and language-access practices when serving unaccompanied immigrant youth.
• Identify strategies to strengthen family and kinship connections across national borders and adapt services to be culturally relevant, plus recognize advocacy opportunities to uphold youth rights.