Justice for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children: An Advocacy Best Practices Manual for Legal Service Providers.
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is pleased to announce the release of Justice for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children: An Advocacy Best Practices Manual for Legal Service Providers.
Unprecedented numbers of unaccompanied children arrived at the southern border in 2014. One year later, in June 2015, NIJC convened experts to address the unique challenges facing legal service providers and pro bono attorneys serving these children.
Justice for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children is the product of this convening, covering a range of topics of interest to advocates representing immigrant children, including:
- how to customize legal documents for use with child clients
- meeting the social services needs of immigrant children
- practical approaches to some of the more common ethical and conflict situations that arise in the representation of unaccompanied children
We hope this best practices manual will serve as a useful tool both for legal services providers striving to meet the growing demand for legal services for unaccompanied children, as well as for those pro bono attorneys stepping in to help fill the remaining gaps. The manual is available online for easy access, and includes links to helpful resources throughout.
KJ