— ECFC Events —
The Pandemic’s Disproportionate Impact on Immigrant Children and Families
This event was held on May 1, 2020
Photo by Oytun Babür Özen on Unsplash
Event Resources:
- Slides
- Advocating and Investing in Equity for Immigrant Families - ECFC & GCIR brief discusses areas of need and opportunity for investment.
- Topline Messages on COVID-19 Relief and Children in Immigrant Families, Latino Policy Forum
- Recommendations for Inclusion of Latino Communities in COVID-19 Relief Efforts
- Immigrant Workers: Vital to the U.S. COVID-19 Response, Disproportionately Vulnerable, March 2020, Migration Policy Institute
- Approaches to Protect Children’s Access to Health and Human Services in an Era of Harsh Immigration Policy, National Center for Children in Poverty
Co-hosted with The Alliance for Early Success
In addition to highlighting the Coronavirus’s disproportionate impact on immigrant children, speakers discussed federal legislation to address the needs of immigrant families; key services and assistance that local and state organizations are providing to immigrant families; the critical role that philanthropy plays in supporting positive outcomes for immigrant families; and concrete actions that advocates can take to improve policies for immigrant children and families. Speakers included: Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), Irving Harris Foundation, Latino Policy Forum, and the Center for New American Children, Children at Risk (Texas).