Immigration Resources

• Immigration Resources - The Children's Network
• Step-By-Step Family Preparedness Plan - Immigrant Legal Resource Center
  A comprehensive toolkit on how immigrant families can more proactively prepare for immigration emergencies that arise.
  
• Know Your Rights | What to Do If ICE Stops You or Comes to Your Home - Stop AAPI Hate
• Ten Expert Tips For Talking To Kids About ICE Terrorizing Their Friends and Family
• ICE In Our Neighborhood - A social story to support teachers of preschool students ages 3-5 years old
• Guiding Youth in Polarizing Times - Cultures Connecting
  When events such as ICE raids, wars, or protests occur locally or nationally, children and youth often respond with questions, fears, or misunderstandings. This guide provides developmentally informed strategies to help you respond with honesty, care, and intention.

Child Traumatic Stress Resources

• How to Cope When Your Community is Under Attack - Mental Health America
  • Spanish version
• When children are afraid of a parent’s deportation (English, Spanish, Korean, Mandarin, Somali, Karen, Portuguese) - Minnesota Association for Children's Mental Health
• Supporting Children After a Parent’s Deportation or Detention (English, Spanish, Somali, Haitian Creole, Pashto, Dari, Portuguese, Karen, Hmong, Ukrainian) - Minnesota Association for Children's Mental Health
• After a Crisis: Helping Young Children Heal (En Espanol)
• Supporting Families with Large Community Events
• Age-Related Reactions to a Traumatic Event
• Once I Was Very Very Scared (En Español; Arabic; ASL)  – children’s book
• Talking to Children: When Scary Things Happen (En Espanol)
• Creating Supportive Environments: When Scary Things Happen (En Español)
• Helping Youth After Community Trauma: Tips for Educators ( En Español )
• Pause-Reset-Nourish (PRN) to Promote Wellbeing 

Traumatic Grief and Traumatic Separation Resources

• Helping Teens with Traumatic Grief: Tips for Caregivers (En Español; Arabic; Ukrainian)
• Helping School-Age Children with Traumatic Grief: Tips for Caregivers (En Español; Arabic; Ukrainian)
• Helping Young Children with Traumatic Grief: Tips for Caregivers (En Español; Arabic; Ukrainian)
• Children with Traumatic Separation: Information for Professionals
• Childhood Traumatic Separation: Youth Information Sheet
• Traumatic Separation and Refugee and Immigrant Children: Tips for Current Caregivers
• Childhood Traumatic Grief: Information for School Personnel (Ukrainian)
• The Power of Parenting: How to Help Your Child After a Parent or Caregivers Dies

Articles

• Potler, Fortuna, Barajas-Gonzalez, Willheim, Navigating Uncertainty: Facilitating Parent-Child Conversations about Immigration Enforcement-Related Family Separation Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry July 2026
• Andres J. Pumariega, M Editorial: The Impact of Policy on Children’s Mental Health: The Case of Immigration J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2024 Mar;63(3):310-312. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2023.08.004. Epub 2023 Aug 30.
• Sachin Nair, Pamela K McPherson, Andres J Pumariega, Traumatic Stress in Children and Youth Crossing the U.S. Mexico Border Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2024 Dec;26(12):798-806. doi: 10.1007/s11920-024-01566-5. Epub 2024 Nov 30.
• Andres J Pumariega, Youngsuhk Jo, Brent Beck, Mariam Rahmani, Trauma and US Minority Children and Youth Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2022 Apr;24(4):285-295. doi: 10.1007/s11920-022-01336-1. Epub 2022 Mar 14.
• Andres J. Pumariega, Eugenio Rothe, The current refugee problem around the world: Implications for social psychiatry January 2019 World Social Psychiatry 1(1):50 DOI:10.4103/WSP.WSP_7_19

AACAP Statements & Policies 

• AACAP Releases Letter Responding to ORR, ICE, for use of Confidential Therapy Notes in Cases Against Immigrant Minors - February 2020
• AACAP Opposes New Flores Rule - August 2019
• Separating Immigrant Children From Their Families - June 2018
• President's Statement: Separating Children from Families - May 2018

Advocacy

• AACAP Letter of Support to the Speaker of the House for the Humanitarian Standards for Individuals in Customs and Border Protection Custody Act - July 2019
• AACAP Letter of Support to the House Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees for the Humanitarian Standards for Individuals in Customs and Border Protection Custody Act - June 2019
• AACAP Calls on HHS Secretary Azar to Provide Details on Mental Health Screening of Migrant Youth - April 2019
• AACAP Calls for Improved Conditions for Migrant Children and Pregnant Women - December 2018
• AACAP Reiterates Call for Immediate End to Separating Immigrant Children from Families - June 2018
• AACAP Calls for Swift Congressional Passage of the "Dream Act" - May 2018
• AACAP Statement on DACA Rescission - September 2017

Clinical Resources

• Sidhu, SS, Song, SJ, Growing Up With an Undocumented Parent in America: Psychosocial Adversity in Domestically Residing Immigrant Children, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2019
• Refugee Trauma

Promoting Refugees' Mental Health Videos

• English
• Arabic
• Spanish
• French
• Swahili
• Kinyarwanda
• Burmese

Legal Resources

• A Guide to Children Arriving at the Border: Laws, Policies and Responses
• Immigrant Child Health Toolkit (American Academy of Pediatrics)
• Leaving No Children or Families Outside: The Challenges of Immigration

Volunteer Opportunities

• President's Message: Organizations Working at the Border

Policy Recommendations

• Report of the ICE Advisory Committee on Family Residential Centers
• Report of the ICE Advisory Committee on Family Residential Centers - RECOMMENDATIONS ONLY*

Additional Peer Organization Resources

• Professional Societies’ Statement of Concern and Offer to Help Inform Protection and Care of Immigrant Children in Federal Custody (NHCVA)
• Providing Care for Children in Immigrant Families (American Academy of Pediatrics)
• Detention of Immigrant Children (American Academy of Pediatrics)
• Providing Care for Immigrant, Migrant, and Border Children (American Academy of Pediatrics)
• AAP Statement on Protecting Immigrant Children
• Minimizing Trauma and Maximizing Treatment for Migrant Children (National Council for Behavioral Health)
• Immigrant Child Health Toolkit (American Academy of Pediatrics)
• Addressing the Mental Health Problems of Border and Immigrant Youth (NCTSN)
• Trauma and Mental Health Needs of Immigrant Minors: Part One (NCTSN)
• Trauma and Mental Health Needs of Immigrant Minors: Part Two (NCTSN)
• NCTSN Resources Related to Traumatic Separation and Refugee and Immigrant Trauma (NCTSN)
• Traumatic Separation and Refugee and Immigrant Children: Tips for Current Caregivers (NCTSN)