Human Services Initiative
Human Services Initiative
MPI’s Human Services Initiative focuses on a range of immigration issues affecting children, families, and health- and human services programs and policies in the United States. The Initiative produces research, policy analysis, private convenings, public events, and technical assistance to inform federal, state, and local policies and practice. Current areas of work include:
- Refugee Resettlement. MPI conducts research and delivers technical assistance to strengthen family-focused refugee resettlement services. These efforts include a national policy academy that supports state efforts to advance two-generation strategies in refugee resettlement, with particular attention to services for young children, supports for youth transitioning to adulthood, and better job strategies for adults.
- Unaccompanied Children. MPI analyzes policies and programs that affect unaccompanied minors while they are in federal custody and after they have been released to parents or other sponsors in local communities. MPI engages providers, governments, community-based organizations, and others to improve services to unaccompanied children based on child development and child welfare principles.
- Access to Benefits and Services. In the context of public-charge requirements and fears of engaging with public systems, MPI partners with governmental and nongovernmental stakeholders to address challenges in connecting individuals and families with benefits and services. This aspect of MPI’s work includes attention to linkages to benefits and services for asylees, asylum seekers, and children of immigrants.
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With the children of immigrants a growing share of all U.S. children, and federal immigration enforcement and other policies undergoing significant change, some state and local child welfare agencies are developing new ways to improve how they work with immigrant families. This report examines key cultural, linguistic, and legal challenges, and how agencies are adjusting staffing, training, placement, and other policies to tackle them.
At a time when the U.S. refugee resettlement system is facing unprecedented challenges, innovative and cost-effective tools for supporting refugee integration are in demand. This report explores how a two-generation approach to service provision could help all members of refugee families—from young children to working-age adults and the elderly—find their footing.
Most recent U.S. legal permanent residents could have found themselves at risk of green-card denial had they been assessed under a proposed Trump administration public-charge rule that would apply a significantly expanded test to determine likelihood of future public-benefits use. This analysis finds the effects would fall most heavily on women, children, and the elderly, while potentially shifting legal immigration away from Latin America.
According to leaked drafts, the Trump administration is considering a rule that could have sweeping effects on both legal immigration to the United States and the use of public benefits by legal immigrants and their families. This report examines the potential scale of the expected rule’s impact, including at national and state levels and among children, as well as Hispanic and Asian American/Pacific Islander immigrants.
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Through the Back Door: Remaking the Immigration System via the Expected “Public-Charge” Rule