Immigration & Safety Resources Quality Start Los Angeles

Supporting You During Challenging Times
We understand that navigating immigration matters can be especially difficult for you and/or the families you work with right now. To help, we’ve compiled a list of essential resources to support you through this journey. Please share them with anyone who might need them. Many resources linked below are available in multiple languages.

Support Families and Young Children Through Trauma and Separation from Immigration Instability

National Center on Pyramid Model Innovations: New Trauma Informed Care Resources
Supporting Your Child After Stressful Events: This resource offers guidance on supporting children after stressful events and includes strategies for families and caregivers to create safety and predictability through routines, clear communication, and emotional connection.
Leading with Compassion: Building Trauma-Informed Pyramid Model Programs: This tip sheet provides leadership practices for creating systems and relationships that support staff, families, and children.
Considerations for Working with Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: This practice brief provides prevention strategies to help children with challenging behavior who have been exposed to trauma and strategies for responding to children when they are trauma-activated.
National Child Traumatic Stress Network – Guiding Caregivers: How to talk to a Child about Deportation or Separation
Sesame Workshop Resources – Displacement and Resettlement Resources in English and in Spanish: Sesame Workshop offers accessible and comforting stories, articles, and activities for our programs and families to better navigate these delicate conversations with young children.
California lawmakers advance bills addressing immigration enforcement in schools
The measures, most of which had bipartisan support, passed floor sessions this week. 6/4/25

Webinars and Recordings:

03-07-2025 Navigating Immigration: Protections and Rights for Children and Families. (First 5 CA): Watch the recorded live stream, featuring Andrew Newcomb, a trusted voice in the community and a key legal expert in the PALE program for the Mexican Consulate. In this discussion, Attorney Newcomb provides insights into the latest immigration regulations, offering valuable information and guidance for families seeking to understand their rights and navigate potential challenges.
An Orientation to Family Preparedness Plans in California | Immigrant Legal Resource Center | ILRC. This free webinar will equip immigration advocates with the information they need to help immigrant parents make a childcare plan if they are unable to care for their children due to detention or deportation. We will cover alternate care arrangements for children under California law, including the Caregiver’s Authorization Affidavit, as well as children’s educational rights in California. We will also provide tips for sharing this information with families in your community. en español: Una Orientación sobre los Planes de Preparación Familiar en California | Immigrant Legal Resource Center | ILRC )
Know Your Rights! – Recorded Webinars Available | East Los Angeles Occupational Center LAUSD provides pre-recorded workshops that offer strategies and resources for support during unpredictable times. Participants will have access to Know Your Rights information, immigration resources, and the opportunity to connect with organizations collaborating with the district.

General Resources: Legal Services, Helplines and more!

Home Grown’s Resources for Immigrant Families and Home Based Child Care providers: Home Grown has provided a wide array of resources to help immigrant families know their rights, protect their families, find legal help, and more, in order to prepare for potential encounters with law enforcement or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Resources available in multiple languages)
Immigrant Legal Resource Center | ILRC |Works with and educating immigrants, community organizations, and the legal sector to help build a democratic society that values diversity and the rights of all people.

Learn More
We Are One / We Are One L.A. Unified: LAUSD is running an empowerment campaign to prepare for and safely defend our rights during encounters with Immigration & Customs Enforcement. Resources are available in English and Spanish and include a Family Preparedness Plan, Red Cards and more.
List of Pro Bono Legal Service Providers: Pro Bono Legal Service Providers
Immigration Law Help: Search the database for low-income immigration legal services across California.
The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles is informed that the following non-profit organizations provide legal assistance in the area of immigration law: Immigration Referral List , Lista de Referencias de Inmigración
Immigration Hotlines: If you need immigration support in California, you can contact the following helplines and services:
- In Los Angeles County-Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights 888-624-4752 or info@chirla.org
- In Orange County-OC Rapid Response 714-881-1558 or info@OCrapidresponse.org
- In the Inland Empire-Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice 909-361-4588 or contact@ic4ij.org

Resource Guides for Non profits, and ECE's

Public Counsel’s “Know Your Rights! Interactions with Immigration Enforcement” webinar slides and webinar recording.
Know Your Rights: Resources for Immigrant Communities: Public Counsel has developed this hub for immigration-focused resources during this moment of heightened enforcement and uncertainty. These resources aim to help individuals, families, service providers, and advocates understand key rights and protections in immigration-related encounters. Everyone deserves to know their rights when navigating this system.
FAQs on Nonprofit and Small Business Rights with Respect to Immigration Enforcement (ICE) – Public Counsel: As a nonprofit or small business owner, it is critical to know your rights and responsibilities if immigration enforcement officials appear at your facility, office, or workplace. These FAQ address common questions that arise.
Guide to Creating Safe Spaces for Early Learning Programs: This guide provides practitioners, advocates, and policymakers with information and resources to implement “safe space” policies that safeguard early childhood programs against immigration enforcement (CLASP)
ALL IN for Safe Schools – All In For Health: This guide provides practitioners, advocates, and policymakers with information and resources to design and implement “safe space” policies that safeguard early childhood programs against immigration enforcement.
Guidance_to_Nonprofits_Regarding_Immigration_Enforcement.pdf: Community-based organizations and nonprofits provide mission-driven services to hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the state. New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and Lawyers Alliance for New York issue this Guidance to Nonprofits Regarding Immigration Enforcement
Red Cards / Tarjetas Rojas | Immigrant Legal Resource Center | ILRC : All people in the United States, regardless of immigration status, have certain rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution. The ILRC’s Red Cards help people assert their rights and defend themselves in many situations, such as when ICE agents go to a home. Download this resource in multiple languages for your community.
Know Your Rights: What To Do If ICE Comes To Your School.PDF: No matter your Immigration status, you have rights under the United States Constitution. Know what to do if an ICE officer comes to your school and be aware of what documents they should be presenting if they come. (Mobilization for Justice)
“Know Your Rights” a resource to help protect yourself and your family during immigration raids: This valuable resource packet provides information on what to do if you are stopped in your car in public, or at home as well as samples of valid and invalid immigration paperwork so you can be prepared.
Tips for Responding to ICE Inquiries at Head Start Centers: This resource provides tips for responding to immigration officials who show up at your organization’s offices
asking to speak to employees or families, or seeking the agency’s records pertaining to employees, children, or caregivers.
LACOE’s Immigrant Relations and Services: LACOE’s Immigrant Relations program promotes compliance of policies that protect students and their families (AB 699, FERPA, AB 2121, and others) and can provide technical assistance to schools that need help in the implementation of those policies. This page has resources on community organization, family preparedness, know your rights and more.
Emerging Safe Schools Policies – Legislation in California: SB48 Safe Zones Around Schools Act (Gonzalez) – This bill is sponsored by State Superintendent Tony Thurmond, CTF AFT, and AFL-CIO; includes an urgency statute.