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New York Volunteer Child Advocate Training

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ORGANIZATION: The Young Center For Immigrant Childrens Rights

  • 162 people are interested
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We are currently recruiting for our Volunteer Child Advocate training scheduled for April 5 and 6, 2025. Attendance on both days is required to complete the training and begin volunteering. If you are interested in volunteering, please express your interest through VolunteerMatch, and then fill out our application form here: https://www.theyoungcenter.org/volunteer-child-advocate-application

Once we receive your application, we will follow up regarding next steps.

The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights is a non-profit organization dedicated to advocating for the rights of unaccompanied immigrant children. The Young Center provides Volunteer Child Advocates (guardians ad litem) for trafficking victims and unaccompanied immigrant children. These advocates are adults who volunteer to spend time with and advocate for an individual unaccompanied immigrant child while they are in federal custody and undergoing immigration proceedings.

Once assigned to a child, each Advocate receives ongoing training, support, and supervision from the Young Center. Currently, our New York office is seeking bilingual volunteers who can conduct weekly one-hour visits with a child in need of accompaniment. We welcome volunteers from all cultures, professions, races, ethnicities, and social backgrounds to join us!

Volunteer Requirements:

- Must be 21 years of age or older.
- Must be fluent or highly proficient in another language. Our primary language needs at this time are: Spanish, French, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Arabic, and any Central American Indigenous Languages.
- Must be able to travel to at least one of the facilities served by the Young Center in Westchester County, Harlem, or the Bronx.
- Must attend a two-day in-person Child Advocate training.
- Must be able to clear both federal and state background checks.
- Must provide proof of a negative tuberculosis test from the past 12 months to enter a detention facility.
- Must provide a record of COVID-19 vaccination.
- Must be willing to commit approximately one hour per week to visit with an unaccompanied child.

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About The Young Center For Immigrant Childrens Rights

Location:

86 Chambers St, New York, NY 10007, US

Mission Statement

The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights protects and advances the rights and best interests of immigrant children according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and state and federal law.

Description

The Young Center is a champion for the best interests of children who arrive in the United States on their own, from all corners of the world. We serve as trusted allies for these children while they are in deportation proceedings, advocating for their best interests, and standing for the creation of a dedicated children’s immigrant justice system that ensures the safety and well-being of every child.

Young Center attorneys and social workers, along with bilingual volunteers, are appointed as Child Advocate (guardian ad litem) by the Department of Health and Human Services. Our role is to advocate for their best interests-from custody and release to the ultimate decision about whether the child will be allowed to remain in the U.S. Our goal is to change both immigration policy and practice so that immigrant children are recognized first as children and their best interests are considered in every decision.

Our goal is to change the immigration system so that children in immigration proceedings are recognized as children, and best interests are made a part of the decision making process.

CAUSE AREAS

Advocacy & Human Rights
Children & Youth
Community
Advocacy & Human Rights, Children & Youth, Community

WHEN

Sat Apr 05, 2025 - Sun Apr 06, 2025
09:30 AM - 03:30 PM

WHERE

Multiple locations Bronx, NY 10470

(40.89908,-73.86837)
 

SKILLS

  • Youth Services
  • Child Welfare
  • Advocacy
  • Child Advocacy
  • Immigration Law
  • Community Outreach

GOOD FOR

  • People 55+

REQUIREMENTS

  • Background Check
  • Must be at least 21
  • Orientation or Training
  • 1 hour per week

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