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Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights

Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights

Meeting Migration Trauma with Trust, Generosity, and Support

On Wednesday, March 13th, Young Center Executive Director Gladis Molina Alt gave the 28th Karen J. Honig Memorial Lecture at the UIC Jane…

10 min readMar 25, 2024

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Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights

Celebrating Social Work Month at the Young Center

My name is Tami Benchoam Rogers. I have been a Social Worker at the Young Center for almost five years. I was drawn to being a social…

3 min readMar 21, 2024

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Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights

Volunteering with Unaccompanied Immigrant Children to Help them Find an Embracing Environment

Priscila Marroquin is a Young Center volunteer based in Chicago whose unwavering devotion to supporting immigrant children stems largely…

2 min readJan 30, 2024

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Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights

A Q & A with our Executive Director Gladis Molina Alt

1. As the Young Center’s ED, what is a tangible way you have demonstrated courage this past year in leading the organization?

9 min readJan 9, 2024

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Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights

A New Texas Law will Separate Families and Criminalize Kids for Seeking Safety Unless the Federal…

By Alexis Bay, Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights

3 min readDec 21, 2023

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Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights

What It Means to Finance with Courage

Often one of the greatest prevailing challenges many nonprofit organizations face pertains to money, or rather not having enough. Finances…

3 min readOct 10, 2023

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Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights

The People We Are: Team P3 on Equity and Community

All I ever wished for as a child was to be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and a Nobel Prize in Literature. Preferably in the same year…

3 min readSep 27, 2023

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Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights

Every Step Counts for Immigrant Children

My name is Maria Angélica Paniagua Núñez and I’ve been a Volunteer Child Advocate with the Young Center for two years. Supporting…

2 min readSep 22, 2023

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Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights

Fighting for Justice for Immigrant Families in the Child Welfare System

It has been over one year since Guadalupe last saw her 3-year-old grandson, Samuel. She helped raise him for the first year of his life…

4 min readSep 19, 2023

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Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights

Upholding Justice and Equity Through Safe Repatriation

Unaccompanied immigrant children far too often face an immigration system in the United States that rarely recognizes or treats them as…

4 min readAug 31, 2023

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Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights

Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights

The Young Center is a champion for kids in an immigration system not designed to treat them as children, by helping ensure that their best interests come first.

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