How Groups Can Make a Difference for
Hispanic Immigrant Children Elaine Clanton Harpine, Ph.D., Thomas Reid, Ph.D., William D. Harpine, Ph.D., Adam Pazda, Ph.D., Shana Ingram, B.A. & B.S., and Collytte Cederstrom
Ours are not Hispanic schools; they are classic American schools, which serve all its students, including
Hispanic immigrant children.
Some will argue for a highly specialized program, curriculum, and staffing to educate
Hispanic immigrant children.
Not exact matches
Yes, many are the
children of illegal
immigrants (as are two out of three of the country's foreign - born
Hispanic kids.)
The media has been reporting extensively on what the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance project has dubbed the «Trump Effect»: the fear and anxiety which the President - elect's campaign rhetoric - and his policy pronouncements, especially regarding
immigrants and Muslims - appears to be engendering among Latino,
Hispanic, African - American, and Muslim
children,
immigrant children, and
children of
immigrants, and the bullying, intimidation, slurs, and threats which appear to be increasingly directed at them.
As New York State budget talks reach their final days, and perhaps even hours, a group of
Hispanic lawmakers is pushing for the inclusion of the Dream Act in the budget, It would offer college aid to
children of undocumented
immigrants who were born in the country.
It's also seen as a litmus test for President Donald Trump, who is lauded by many of the district's Cuban - American voters for chilling his predecessor's accord with Cuba but is denounced by other
Hispanics for his hard - line stance on immigration, especially policies involving undocumented
immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as
children, known as «Dreamers.»
«The GOP is dead to our community,» said Deyanira Aldana, 21, a protester who is the
child of
Hispanic immigrants.
The report, Safe Havens: Protecting and Supporting New York State's
Immigrant Students — released by The Education Trust — New York, Advocates for
Children of New York, the New York Immigration Coalition and The Committee for
Hispanic Children and Families, Inc. — finds that while the New York State Education Department (SED) and the Attorney General's Office, as well as several individual school districts, have taken a number of important steps, there is much more to do.
A new study of national survey information gathered on more than 12,000
Hispanic children from
immigrant and U.S. - native families found that although they experience more poverty, those from
immigrant families reported fewer exposures to such adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) as parental divorce and scenes of violence.
Using data from 2011 to 2012 gathered for the U.S. National Survey of
Children's Health, a nationally representative landline and mobile phone survey of households that have at least one resident child up to 17 years old, DeCamp and colleagues sought to determine whether an association existed between ACE exposure and immigrant family status for Hispanic c
Children's Health, a nationally representative landline and mobile phone survey of households that have at least one resident
child up to 17 years old, DeCamp and colleagues sought to determine whether an association existed between ACE exposure and
immigrant family status for
Hispanic childrenchildren.
«
Hispanic children and exposure to adverse experiences: Findings suggest those in
immigrant families are more resilient.»
The next steps toward better understanding ACEs for
Hispanic children from
immigrant families, says Caballero, are to determine what, if any, resilience factors do exist and what traumas may be hidden or specific to the population in order to better guide policy and invest in resources that support those resilience factors and help address such traumas.
The study included a total of 12,612 parent - identified
Hispanic children, 66 percent of whom were from
immigrant families.
The congregation, less than a year old, consists almost entirely of
Hispanic immigrants and their
children.
Unlike the experience of past
immigrants, for today's millions of
Hispanic children the public schools no longer serve as the mechanism for their assimilation as Americans.
This is bad for our country and worse for
immigrants and their
children, especially for the growing
Hispanic community.
For example, the majority of
Hispanic students in today's classrooms are not «newcomers,» enrolling as older
children and adolescents, but instead are U.S. - born
children of
immigrants.
Hispanic children do not experience this widening test - score gap relative to otherwise similar white students; indeed, they systematically close the gap, perhaps because their initial scores are artificially low due to the relative inexperience with the English language among some
immigrants and their
children (see Figure 2).
Safe Havens: Protecting and Supporting New York State's
Immigrant Students This May 2017 report, released by the Education Trust — New York, Advocates for Children of New York, the New York Immigration Coalition, and the Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, urges New York school districts to better protect and support immigrant students and
Immigrant Students This May 2017 report, released by the Education Trust — New York, Advocates for
Children of New York, the New York Immigration Coalition, and the Committee for
Hispanic Children and Families, urges New York school districts to better protect and support
immigrant students and
immigrant students and families.
The Burden of Deportation on
Children in Mexican Immigrant Families (PDF - 1,229 KB) Dreby (2012) Journal of Marriage and Family, 74 Presents outcomes from interviews with members of Hispanic families regarding the burden and worry of deportation on c
Children in Mexican
Immigrant Families (PDF - 1,229 KB) Dreby (2012) Journal of Marriage and Family, 74 Presents outcomes from interviews with members of
Hispanic families regarding the burden and worry of deportation on
childrenchildren.
Foster Care Placement Settings and Permanency Planning (PDF - 158 KB) The Urban Institute (2007) Focuses on placement settings and case goals for Latin American
immigrant children and
children of Latin American
immigrants compared with
Hispanic and non-
Hispanic children of U.S. - born parents in the custody of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.
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Partnering With Latino and
Immigrant Families: Resources and Suggestions for Child Welfare Professionals (PDF - 1,465 KB) North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (2015) Discusses working with Latino and / or immigrant families for child welfare professionals in North Carolina and includes information on topics such as educating and recruiting foster families, using culturally sensitive recruitment, working with Hispanic foster families, using translators,
Immigrant Families: Resources and Suggestions for
Child Welfare Professionals (PDF - 1,465 KB) North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (2015) Discusses working with Latino and / or immigrant families for child welfare professionals in North Carolina and includes information on topics such as educating and recruiting foster families, using culturally sensitive recruitment, working with Hispanic foster families, using translators, and
Child Welfare Professionals (PDF - 1,465 KB) North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (2015) Discusses working with Latino and / or
immigrant families for child welfare professionals in North Carolina and includes information on topics such as educating and recruiting foster families, using culturally sensitive recruitment, working with Hispanic foster families, using translators,
immigrant families for
child welfare professionals in North Carolina and includes information on topics such as educating and recruiting foster families, using culturally sensitive recruitment, working with Hispanic foster families, using translators, and
child welfare professionals in North Carolina and includes information on topics such as educating and recruiting foster families, using culturally sensitive recruitment, working with
Hispanic foster families, using translators, and more.
After adjustment for confounders, the stratum - specific adjusted odds ratios (95 % CI) of
child mental health conditions related to a one - level decline in parent mental health were: 1.44 (1.35 — 1.55) for non-Hispanic whites, 1.24 (1.06 — 1.46) for non-Hispanic blacks, 1.04 (0.81 — 1.32) for
Hispanics from non-
immigrant families, 1.21 (0.96 — 1.93) for
Hispanics from
immigrant families, and 1.43 (1.21 — 1.70) for non-Hispanic otherrace
children.