Connecting advocates and displaced persons for a brighter future.
A Focus on Practical Training and Education translates to an effective Advocacy
We support all aspects of displaced individuals, including training attorneys at crisis borders, representing displaced individuals in immigration hearings and working with organizations that provide support beyond legal issues.
Beyond political and social group conflicts, our work includes gender based conflicts, including working with trafficking victims and the LGBTQ+ community globally.
What we do
From advocacy in courts to practical training in classrooms, access to information and counsel to all displaced individuals and noncitizens is the grassroots our Safe House
Tutorials and Practical Learning
We offer internships for class credit for students ranging from Secondary Education to University Level Education. Generally, each class is assigned to a real-life asylum case assisting an attorney from intake to submission of application or submission to Immigration Court.
Volunteer Advocacy
Our Volunteers possess a demonstrated commitment to immigrants in dire need of legal services. We find placement through a process that is attuned to our volunteer’s interests, experiences, and the urgencies of our immigrants.
Our Advocacy work includes Border Representation and Representation before the Executive Office for Immigration Review or Immigration Courts. Our representation also expands to all Departments encompassing the Department of Homeland Security
Goal 2023: Advocacy beyond Law
In many post-placement communities, crime, housing disinvestment, and limited economic mobility may magnify the effects of poverty on residents, making it even harder for children to succeed in school, grow up healthy, and achieve economic success.
However, evidence shows that their ability to meet these challenges is significantly strengthened when neighbors and local organizations come together to respond to problems, residents in these places have better educational and health outcomes than their counterparts in lower-capacity neighborhoods.
In one particular project, Sanjeevi was able to assist our counsel in arranging evidence, articles and geographical notes as a supplement to an asylum application.
— UNIS Past Intern working under the direction of an Advocate
Contact
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