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What I Witnessed at Casa Padre Detention Center

Keeping Families Together Is Not Enough: On the Frontlines of the Border Crisis

As Alliance attorneys offer their time and expertise to support ongoing legal efforts at the border, we are sharing their personal perspectives. Here, Elise Weinberg, policy attorney at the Alliance, talks about her time at Karnes Detention Center interviewing detained mothers and children. I pulled up to the Refugee and Immigration Center for Education and …

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Alliance Win for Families

Alliance Win for Families on Funding at Time of Placement

The Alliance has worked for over a decade on equity for relative caregivers, who are often the first placement option for children who enter foster care. Until recently, those who take in a child on an emergency basis when they first enter foster care do not receive full foster care funding until they complete a …

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